I know, but anyone debating with a bit of the "both sides" in that topic was even met with hostility. Other than the one or two trolls that topic attracted, those like myself and others weren't saying anything radical nor were we condoning white supremacy. When you bring up hate mobs in gaming, it's worth remembering because others hate, don't end up mirroring their behaviour by being hateful yourself. As I said if you were an employee at Bungie reading that topic you could cut the hate in the air with a bread knife. Hating white supremacy is one thing, a noble cause, but in this individual instance with little information known going full on hating Bungie and demanding someone gets fired was jumping the gun just a little. Even if more people were being a little 50/50 and saying fire if probable cause, but so many posts in that topic were just "fire some piece of shit right now or else I'll never buy a Bungie game again, Bungie has Nazi designer(s)". Hence why I think Bungie has gone and done further investigating and released a PR statement which goes above and beyond "sorry, we don't condone hate, not-intended and we're patching". That was their original release, but a long topic on GAF wanting someone fired and no doubt the mainstream gaming press running headlines inferring Bungie and hate, it tipped them to a further statement. Thankfully it did to put this to bed.
Right from the start they did try and explain it wasn't intentional, and even although the iconography/graphics used were similar, they were not literally 100% the same like some people tried to argue. I even got flak for trying to point that out. It wasn't like an accidental swastika where the design is actually a swastika or very close to one. This logo on the arms, chest piece and legs had just enough degrees of separation to at least entertain the concept of "accidental". As Bungie said there wasn't even a desire to mimic the kek meme back in 2015. The whole design from the start was coincidental.
Even on GAF people know videogames can be in development for literally years. Destiny 2 was never just going to be knocked out in 6 months. I get people speculating something was "slipped in" late in development, but mine and others arguments in that topic was to try and get those 100% sure, even to drop to 99% sure, 1% sceptical. A majority would not even budge to that.
Sure, some things in life are universal to the 7+ billion population. No, the okay hand sign and drinking milk cannot be successfully co-opted. That is ludicrous. Kekistan originally seemed to be created as a fictional meme and transformed into something the white supremacists use. The word kek itself, due to its origins, meh, you can probably make an argument for who cares if some still use it. Just say lol though... Kekistan and the flag? There is nothing good of even trying nor caring for it to be used by anyone other than the assholes.
If someone tries to say you can't post emoji symbols or be seen with a picture of milk, sure, tell them that is a bit daft. If someone tries to say lets reclaim Kekistan, nah, that's not even in the same ballpark as other things trolls/supremacists try to co-opt to wind up the left/liberals.