Slow this. It's not the changing of the symbol, it's the legitimacy and standing of the people who wish to change it, the means they are using to do so, and the

Slow this. It's not the changing of the symbol, it's the legitimacy and standing of the people who wish to change it, the means they are using to do so, and the sincerity of their motives. This is the forum we have. I reject the standing of the critical theory underlying the problematizing of what it perceives as symbols in my field, because the ideology itself is designed to manufacture and inject conflict, as means to leverage itself into being an arbiter of purity, and its endgame has a lot of historical precedents. Dialectical materialism is an intellectual cancer. This is where change happens. It's in the culture, and we respond in the culture. This forum is public discourse. If you are concerned because it sounds "angry," I would recommend revisiting how that reflects as a style of argument. While this probably isn't the forum to re-litigate it, it is the forum to state unambiguously that the effort to hijack, co-opt, and subordinate Blackhat and the community it served to an ideology using an implied threat of political cancellation ( or "atomization" in the literature) has not gone unnoticed.