(07-09-2023, 01:56 AM)Shimamori Wrote: The Coalition ships have a red star on them which is the symbol of the Air Force of one infamous country committing war crimes right now, and nobody bets an eye. Some tiny unof faction makes a logo that vaguely resembles an obscure not prohibited political faction that many people haven't even heard of and everyone is losing their marbles. C is for consistency
Same goes for the example you gave with the Coalition. It has roleplay backing it up, and even if it's slightly questionable, it has been the narrative of the faction as a whole since well before the events described.
So, if a faction had, say, the roots in Nazi Germany inRP, would it be ok to use swastikas? The Red Star has a very strong connotation nowadays regardless of the lore behind it. If you try to defend a well-known symbol that is directly used by an aggressor in an ongoing war by using lore but try to bash a faction the symbols of which vaguely resemble some obscure reactionary faction that even does not pop up in Google searches unless you specifically go for it, then I would address you to the thesaurus in the section of hypocrisy. Coalition on disco is also a player-made faction, so no FL lore should be used discriminately to cover it up.
Leave it alone. At this point it will devolve into who subjectively finds what offensive. If the administration finds a problem with it - fine by me. If it is simply trial by forum - then the creators deserve the right to stick with their original idea or to alter it depending on how well their ingame interactions go and if they get ignored.
