Dear Bungie,
While I respect your decision to remove the symbol that referenced the 'Nation of Kekistan,' I find that the language you used to explain the decision contained some rather ignorant hyperbole.
While some individuals have indeed used the Kekistan symbol to represent white nationalist or white supremacist ideas, others have used it, (quite frequently), to symbolize a (read clearly), anti-racist pushback against a political monopoly by left wing media that seeks to brand its critics as racist, xenophobic, etc. (This includes institutions such as the Southern Poverty Law Center).
Use of hyperbole that equivocates all individuals that have ever used the Kekistan symbol with those who have used it to represent an evil ideology risks creating a trend of censorship toward any one who is left of center to right-wing. Even more importantly, it simply isn't correct, and telling the truth matters.
It is simply not true that the 'Kek' symbol was an exclusively racist symbol, even in contemporary context. It may be an inappropriate symbol to have in game, but it was not and has not been exclusively used by racists.
Let me be clear: Bungie has not violated anyone's rights by removing the symbol. Bungie has made no clear attempt to silence conservatives, liberals, capitalists, or anyone else except for actual racists. I do not claim that they have.
This post is TO BUNGIE and is more of a serious concern about the future, not a whine-post. Red flags were raised by the term "Hate Groups" and a recent Kotaku article that implied Bungie received their definition of the Kekistan symbol from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Anti-Free Speech, Anti-Capitalist legal corporation.
My goodwill should not be suspect in the writing of this article. My best wishes to the Bungie Development team and to every individual in the Destiny Community.
-IamMythHunter.
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Regardless of what the symbol may or may not have become to certain groups, let's all understand the fact of the matter is it originated AS A JOKE FROM 4CHAN. It's bullshit. All of it. Fake. Not real. Satire. Parody. The Kekistani Religion is a farce. Comedy. It never existed. It never meant anything. Nobody took it seriously. Because it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Now Hunters are all left looking like intergalactic Hobos while the snowflakes are patting themselves on the backs for what? Removing a graphic that vaguely resembled some made-up 4Chan tomfoolery. The racists and bigots are still out there being racist and bigoted. You've done nothing but impact the MILLIONS of players who are now forced to deal with the fallout of this overreaction.
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...more political correctness run amuck? Or at least an attempt to be politically correct? People really need to stop relying on 8 second sound bites and 160 characters or less for their news. Seriously... this is about as far as the average reader would go into a news article... and they are already on to another topic.
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...and the Confederate Battle Flag is about Southern Pride..... (Ooops, wrong symbol....)
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由The Dude編輯: 9/18/2017 4:43:31 PMIt's like the svastika. A stolen symbol that was perverted to conform to a certain ideology. A svastika has no origins in N4zi Germany. Just like Kek has no basis in reality. It's fiction. And I'm nearly 100% positive Bungie removes the Kek arms but NOT the emblem. Inspect my warlock or hunter. That is the Kek symbol. (As I suspected, my hunter gaunts are classified. But not the Kek emblem.)
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The people who fly Kekistani flags at alt-right and white supremacist events are there to parody those people. Kekistan was created by and is filled with people who despise identity politics and the effects that they have had on our society.