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Re: nazi reference in doom????

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From: zi... Stephan K. Zitz
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 07:31
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In article <albertwC...@netcom.com>,
The Feddie Punk of Solomon <alb...@netcom.com> wrote:
|In article <NEVES.94J...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu>
ne...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu (NEVES RICHARD K) writes: >>
|>I just grabbed the shareware version of doom and played it for the
|>first time today.   
|>
|>I was VERY disturbed to see this huge swastika in one of the rooms.
|>It bothers me 'cause it makes me think the creators of the game have
|>some sort of agenda.   That's really nasty and dangerous symbolism,
|>don't you guys think.
|
|Wolfenstein 3D had swastika's up the wazoo, but no one said a word.  
|>What's with the big bruhaha now?

Well...  Wolfenstein had a reason to have the swastika portrayed every
three feet...  You WERE, afterall, in a castle/whatever of the nazis...

However...  Just because the swastika shape is used, doesn't automatically
insinuate the shape is symbolizing the nazi icon...

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Subject: Re: nazi reference in doom????
Date: 9 Jan 1994 01:31:58 -0600
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