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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022

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Is being a nazi banned? Are you not allowed to advocate for the 14 words and Hitlerist National Socialism? If the answer is no to both cases, is it banned to identify your ideological bent in your username?

Let's put it this way - if someone wants to argue that white people are all terrible and guilty of all injustice in the world, we won't forbid that, but we will probably not let you argue it with a username like "SuckItWhitey."

Which would not be analogous to 1488, which, stands for the 14 words and either Hail Hitler or the 88 Precepts. Which is why I specifically asked about those things. There is plenty of wiggle room within those referenced concepts to allow for more charitable interpretation. It's not like the person is named AuschwitzKikeGrinder. In which case I would magnanimously approve a request for a name change.

In which case I would magnanimously approve a request for a name change.

Your magnanimity (and approval) is unnecessary.

We haven't spelled out explicit rules about what is and isn't acceptable as a username, but this is not the first time we have banned and/or requested name changes from users using obviously inflammatory or provocative nyms. The implicit rule is "Don't be an ass, and don't go overboard trying to be edgy."

Then this would be the first time you do so for a name that is not inflammatory or provocative.

You may perhaps genuinely believe that throwing coded Heil Hitlers is not inflammatory or provocative.

If you're just disgruntled that we aren't willing to go along with normalizing it, too bad.

The entire point of this incident was that the person wasn't speaking in code. They literally put 1488 in their name.

Yes. And we're not allowing usernames with 1488 or "HeilHitler" or various permutations of "nigger," "faggot," "kike" and similar things (all of which are actual usernames we have banned). What part of this are you stuck on?

The part where you, just moments ago, said you did not have specific rules on this. It's hard to say that I am stuck on any part when you contradict yourself comment to comment.

You gave examples which were not analogous to 1488, which, stands for the 14 words and either Hail Hitler or the 88 Precepts. Which is why I specifically asked about those things. There is plenty of wiggle room within those referenced concepts to allow for more charitable interpretation.

In reply to this you said there were no specific rules on this type of stuff. Now you are saying there are specific rules and that those rules are 1488 = banned when talking about crypto. Whilst, pending clarification, 'SuckItWhitey' is "probably" not allowed "if" they being racist against white people. Who knows if they just talk about crypto and AI all day.

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