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this is a real thing lol?the "KEK" logo featured on the Kekistan flag,
this is a real thing lol?the "KEK" logo featured on the Kekistan flag,
I suppose this could be true as well. They could have just been a temporary hire who was given their papers regardless and not an employee of an outside contracted studio.
Why is everything turned into a white supremacist thing? Wasn't kek translated lol in WoW when you were the other faction? How do we go from that to white supremacy? And who decides who owns something? Who makes the most memes?
Couldn't Bungie spread the word about that person to discourage other companies from hiring him/her?
Why is everything turned into a white supremacist thing? Wasn't kek translated lol in WoW when you were the other faction? How do we go from that to white supremacy? And who decides who owns something? Who makes the most memes?
Can someone post the full flavor text?
Why is everything turned into a white supremacist thing? Wasn't kek translated lol in WoW when you were the other faction? How do we go from that to white supremacy? And who decides who owns something? Who makes the most memes?
this is a real thing lol?
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.
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. They've been made to look foolish so I'm sure they want the prankster to pay and not work in the industry anymore.
Might as well jump to a conclusion then.
It happened with uncharted using assassin creeds map or something like that, no one caught it. By the looks of this thread most didn't even know it was a thing.
And suddenly everything was a white supremacy symbol
And suddenly everything was a white supremacy symbol
Things that are explicitely symbols of white supremacy? Yes, they are.
No I saw. I'm just surprised something like that exists. It seems I'm living under a rock hidden in some forgotten cave when it comes to some of this stuff.
Couldn't Bungie spread the word about that person to discourage other companies from hiring him/her?
Things that are explicit symbols of white supremacy? Yes, those things are.
Might as well jump to a conclusion then.
It happened with uncharted using assassin creeds map or something like that, no one caught it. By the looks of this thread most didn't even know it was a thing.
My hunter is wearing these right now. I had no idea. Yuck.
but it was just a joke, bro
To be fair I don't think this particular symbol is very mainstream known at all. I'm on GAF all day every day which is pretty in tune with this sort of thing and I'd never heard of it before today
And suddenly everything was a white supremacy symbol
Oh I didnt know it till today either but Im not about to advocate giving Alt righters an inch after the shit they have been pulling for the past several years
Screw em all
To be fair I don't think this particular symbol is very mainstream known at all. I'm on GAF all day every day which is pretty in tune with this sort of thing and I'd never heard of it before today
kek would always be lol to me.
So you think all white supremacy symbols are mainstream?
Face, meet palm (or in this case fist).
Totally agreed. Its clear whoever did this did it on purpose.
I'm just saying I can easily see how no one at Bungie caught it. Unless you knew what you were looking for specifically this would just look like any other random gauntlet
It pisses me off that both Pepe and "kek" have become white supremacist shit, I liked early Pepe stuff when it was just idiotic memes, now it's been stolen by racists and white supremacists.
STOP RUINING EVERYTHING WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
......what are you talking about?
Like literally what are you on about? I'm explaining to that user why they had probably never heard of it, and that most people probably haven't
Ah my bad. Sorry. Didn't get the context.
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)