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we're in a time of moral panic. this is what it looks like. familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
by undefined1 6y ago
we're in a time of moral panic. this is what it looks like.
familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
- woah 6y agoDo you think that having your icon be a picture of a smiling cardboard Hitler is a good marketing move?
- undefined1 6y agodo you think that D&D is a front for demon worship?
- dehrmann 6y agoI do find myself saying the word "daemon" way more than I did as a kid.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoMake your icon a random blot and some people will imagine Hitler in that too. It's a packing box with tape on the top, something Amazon is widely known for.
- perl4ever 6y agoBut it's got that weird "smile" on it, which any way you slice it is incongruous. You know who else had a similar mustache? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/OrwellBurmaPassport.jpg/341px-OrwellBurmaPassport.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/OrwellB... But that was in the mid-1920s. Obviously it was fashionable at one point, in some circles, and once it was associated with Hitler, people stopped wearing it. There is a distinction between saying "something associated with something bad is aesthetically displeasing or embarrassing" and saying "something associated with something bad is a terrible crime". The former is not a moral panic.
- csunbird 6y agoI did not see Hitler in the icon either. I feel like people are just looking reasons to be offended somehow.
- pseudalopex 6y agoPeople were mocking Amazon. Not offended.
- afavour 6y agoIt really isn't. No-one was calling for Amazon to be banned, no-one was even outraged about it. A couple of people made some jokes on Twitter. That's all. We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
- Traster 6y agoThe real moral panic is the moral panic panic.
- itsyaboi 6y agoThinking of it as a Rorschach test helps explain the knee-jerk reactions