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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by norswap on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:05PM (#23717409)
But you see the issue with that thought process right? You can imbue political meaning on anything that way, and ban arbitrary things. What if there is a (perhaps bogus) polemic, and your favorite singer is singled out as a racist/misogynist/communist/whatever, and the Bad People start blasting his songs at rallies? Are you supposed to stop listening to your favourite songs.

Come to your own conclusions, but mine is: fuck that - I'll be the judge of what is acceptable and what isn't, not some kind of thought mob.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by FireBeyond on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#23718001)
Your conclusion here is that these people were all making this sign for non-nefarious meanings.

On the contrary, it is contextually highly/entirely likely that they were _actively_ choosing to use it in a political manner. They _themselves_ were choosing to imbue political meaning on it, as much as anyone was choosing to _take_ meaning from it.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by Aerroon on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:06AM (#23722031)
>On the contrary, it is contextually highly/entirely likely that they were _actively_ choosing to use it in a political manner.

Based on what? If you go looking for things with a specific interpretation in mind you're going to find a lot of it even in places that it wasn't meant that way. The adage about malice and incompetence comes to mind.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by FireBeyond on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:11PM (#23729753)
Based on the fact that a group of eight or so people with Confederate flags, tattoos and armed and wearing body armor went out of their way to pose, in front of a BLM protest, all making that sign.

"wasn't meant that way" - you're going have to try harder than that. Saying "oh, they meant nothing inflammatory, even though they're the group (3%ers) who are most associated with the nefarious intent and are absolutely aware of it's purported meaning" is wilfully disingenuous.

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