Salty Rice
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Kek is now a white supremacy thing? Damn...wtf?
I wouldnt say Kek is white supremacy but the logo with the green makes it.
Coincidence my ass.
Kek is now a white supremacy thing? Damn...wtf?
Interesting, prob grew on 4chan and eventually became a racist symbol like Pepe the frog. I never knew this till now.Man it sucks that that kek is a bad thing now. I remember original WoW, maybe even still in modern WoW for all I know, you couldn't understand the enemy faction because the game hashed what they were saying, so "lol" got translated to "kek" and people basically used it as horde laughing at alliance etc. Just a silly WoW reference.
Not surprised some asshole was able to slip this in. Before this I had never even heard of that flag so it was probably really easy to go unnoticed.
Hope Bungie find the person and fire them
I mean, I'm not surprised that some racist prankster on the Bungie art team got this through considering I didn't even know that this Kekistan racist meme had a flag at all. This is why you have your high-ups double and triple check things though.
if a horde types "lol" as an alliance player you will see "kek".
I doubt (outsourced) armor designers have anything to say about that flavor text which sometimes contains essential lore. In this case it doesn't but this seems a bit far fetched.I can't read the full flavor text but this had to be intentional.
....so few possess it. Own it. Enjoy it. - The Speaker
Must be referring to White privilege. Didn't the Speaker wear all white as well...
Bungie's capacity to do anything would very limited if it was determined to be from an outside studio brought on as temporary. All they could do is hand over the name of the person involved and hope the right decision would be made.
I can't read the full flavor text but this had to be intentional.
....so few possess it. Own it. Enjoy it. - The Speaker
Must be referring to White privilege. Didn't the Speaker wear all white as well...
Bungie/Activision have a lot more leverage than that.
Bungie/Activision have a lot more leverage than that.
It's been a white supremacist/alt-right thing since early this year.
I wouldnt say Kek is white supremacy but the logo with the green makes it.
Coincidence my ass.
First thing that popped into my mind as well.I can't read the full flavor text but this had to be intentional.
....so few possess it. Own it. Enjoy it. - The Speaker
Must be referring to White privilege. Didn't the Speaker wear all white as well...
The contract work would be considered finished though. I'm sure the outside studio would be pressed to terminate the employee to maintain a future working relationship with Bungie and Activision obviously.
I can't read the full flavor text but this had to be intentional.
....so few possess it. Own it. Enjoy it. - The Speaker
Must be referring to White privilege. Didn't the Speaker wear all white as well...
Indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if this was seen as a gross breach of contract to the point where they'd get quite a bit of money refunded from the 3rd party.
Like, this is kind of a big deal.
Thats what I always though "kek" was any time I heard it mentioned.
In this hypothetical scenario they may already be terminated simply because the contract expired and they were no longer needed.
We don't know the terms of the contract and this gauntlet design also passed inspection from Bungie themselves. I'm not exactly sure if they have a leg to stand on without knowing if this was definitely outside design work and the terms of their agreement.
I doubt it.Great that they removed it, I had no idea it was even a thing to be honest. This could be a case of an artist googled flags and didn't realize what it was either.
Didn't a similar thing happen with uncharted and assassins creed?
I think this is a litmus test for gaf. Would you still wear these guantlets knowing its a KKK logo or dismantle this 300 light piece that will push your light level down by 10 levels?
This needs to be a poll.
I think this is a litmus test for gaf. Would you still wear these guantlets knowing its a KKK logo or dismantle this 300 light piece that will push your light level down by 10 levels?
This needs to be a poll.
This is a reach if I've ever seen one
The ghaul to accuse me of such a thing.
The ghaul to accuse me of such a thing.
First time I saw that simbol, looks pretty cool wihout the context but yes, identical on design.
Was a fan of Destiny 1 and held off on this. Definitely not buying this now
Fucking bullshit man, this shit must be everywhere in games, just hidden
Huh, that's interesting. What turned it into such a thing?
Jesus Christ, altright fuckwits are bloody everywhere
So you're going to skip the game because they removed this the second they were aware of it? Strange message to send.Was a fan of Destiny 1 and held off on this. Definitely not buying this now
Fucking bullshit man, this shit must be everywhere in games, just hidden
Was a fan of Destiny 1 and held off on this. Definitely not buying this now
Fucking bullshit man, this shit must be everywhere in games, just hidden
Was a fan of Destiny 1 and held off on this. Definitely not buying this now
Fucking bullshit man, this shit must be everywhere in games, just hidden
I doubt it.
It was, originally. "Kekekeke" was the Korean version of "Hehehehe". That spread via online games, and I assume eventually turned into the shorthand "kek" like "lol". No idea how it got attached to white supremacy via 4chan though. (Aside from it being popular on 4chan, and there being white supremacists that visit 4chan)I always thought kek was another onomatopoeia for a type of laugh, like "hurfdurf" or "pfft"
I think this is a litmus test for gaf. Would you still wear these guantlets knowing its a KKK logo or dismantle this 300 light piece that will push your light level down by 10 levels?
This needs to be a poll.
Was a fan of Destiny 1 and held off on this. Definitely not buying this now
Fucking bullshit man, this shit must be everywhere in games, just hidden
Huh, that's interesting. What turned it into such a thing?
Without going into the long lineage of bullshit memes that are the signs and sigils of modern white supremacy's public face, the "Kekistan flag" combines a popular internet shorthand that became a symbol of white supremacist sympathies with the German military flag of Hitler's Third Reich. Drawing an explicit connection to Nazi violence was of course the point of the flag, allowing white supremacists to reskin the classic symbols of Nazism in a way that would fly under many people's radars, providing a bit of camouflage to their efforts to reassert themselves into public spaces and modern political discourse.
Which is why the flag was so prominently on display at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist aimed a car into a crowd of protesters and murdered one of them and injured dozens of others.
After those events, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization which monitors hate groups in America, offered analysis about the flag's purpose in these groups:
The "national flag of Kekistan" mimics a German Nazi war flag, with the Kek logo replacing the swastika and the green replacing the infamous German red. A 4chan logo is emblazoned in the upper left hand corner. Alt-righters are particularly fond of the way the banner trolls liberals who recognize its origins.
To be clear, the iconography on the Road Complex AA1 gauntlets is not identical, but its green coloration, and the shape of the KEK lettering are obvious signals. Doubtless there will be people who refuse to acknowledge the very clear symbolism here, much in the same way that the Kekistan flag itself was designed to give overt symbols of Nazi allegiance an ironic cover story. The entire cartoonish nature of modern white supremacist symbolism is to make clear, sincere statements of belief that believers can then turn around and masquerade as an edgy joke.
But that's a shell game where in the name of fairness someone can be asked to provide endless proof of what is evident to the naked eye. It's a way to make victims and targets seem ridiculous while their abusers and assailants are portrayed as mere jesters from the court of internet dadaism, with no connection to real-world harassment and violence.