Re: nazi reference in doom????

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From: tj... Tim Cutts
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 16:26

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>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.
>> 

No I don't.  The Swastika has been known for thousands of years as a
symbol of peace.  Just because a bunch of assholes in Germany decided to use
it for ten years or so earlier this century is no reason to ban its use.  Why
don't you think of it's traditional symbolism rather than its recent meaning?

This sort of attitude is what gets bad symbolism entrenched in the first place.

I personally rather like the pentagram as a shape too.  Doesn't mean I'm a
satanist though.

Tim.

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