crosspost from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43675346
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The “Bro visited his friend” meme template. In panel one, a character says “hi GOG any new deals tod-” and another character, labeled with the GOG.com logo, replies with the screenshot of a mail header titled “Slavic adventures 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ”. In the second panel, the first character looks at the second one with a worried look on their face.
Are asking me why GOG chose to make an email subject line dogwhistling Nazi iconography?
I’m asking why you’re so sure it has to be doing exactly that when GOG had no reason to be doing that and there’s no context for doing that.
I would prefer not to jump to conclusions until there is a conclusion.
Scroll up to Chloé 🥕’s exhibition of GOG’s dogwhistling apologetics. It’s pretty clear to us harmed by Nazis, and the majority of folks experienced in Nazi whistles that the subject line could have been typed extremely differently, esp. when the developers themselves admitted the Newsletter was all Gog’s doing.
Still waiting the why. It’s such a braindead move, I don’t see why they would so randomly sabotage themselves like this.
I believe it is not sabotage. They are trying to attract a specific type of customers who would be interested to play a «Slavic adventure».
It seems that they thought these target customers are Nazi-sympathisers.
you were given clear evidence for the claims made, nobody is making you agree with it. its a diffrent matter if you want to continue to take the side of people whos argument boils down to, its not racist its your fault because you didnt see it the way we interpreted, thats just a bad look.
I was given assumptions and circumstances. It’s not evidence, but a choice to believe. I chose to hold reservations until everything is made clear. Those who make certainties out of guesses will get bitten by it eventually. I’d prefer to avoid that.
Who did what is uncertain right now. That’s not up for discussion. None of us were there and we only have the end result to go on, so any reconstruction of the facts has to differentiate between what’s closest to what happened and what’s made to fit the end result as we see it.
Just because we have the lego pieces to make something doesn’t mean it’s what those pieces were made to build.
Same as all of us here. We’ll have to wait on Monday to learn why they hired a Nazi to publish this newsletter in their Boże Ciało weekend.