Comment on Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers

• placebo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They didn’t use the The Schutzstaffel Nazi symbol in the German mailers because they thought it would violate hate speech laws.

  That doesn’t contradict what I wrote, though. I can see how some manager who didn’t care enough or didn’t understand the implications would accept this half‑assed measure somebody suggested on slack.

  I mean, they should be criticized and shamed for what’s happened, but I see no evidence of malicious intent.

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  • harmony@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sadly, that’s the point of dog whistling, to have some doubt to whether it was actually innocent.

    With how prevalent dog whistles are in neo-Nazism, it’s not surprising that people are sceptical. It’s a whole thing to send “subtle” Nazi symbology and then deny everything when called out.

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