Hello PCMR community!
On July 13th, we asked the community for your opinion if you would like to change the name of this community.
Results of the Survey :
- Yes - 28.1%
- No - 71.9% (winner)
Of the 1,201 responses received, we as a community have democratically decided that we should not change the name from PC Master Race. I am grateful to our community for your input, as this was a difficult topic to navigate together.
If you would like to review the history of this, please check out this post here: https://lemmy.world/post/1430610
We'll pin this post for some time and then consider adding a bullet into the sidebar for this Community to help stave off further discussions around this topic as the community has already decided collectively.
Kind regards,
The Moderator Team
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EDIT 30-Aug-2023:
Due to some of the recent targeted attacks against Lemmy.world, I noticed that the image I shared with this post was purged from their servers.
Here's a new screenshot of the results for posterity: https://i.postimg.cc/jqNg5gWx/pcmrsurvey.png
Well, this is kinda gross. Missed the poll, but pretty disappointed with the results. The big swell of tongue-in-cheek nazi jokes to go along with it is really telling and discomforting.
Anyways, good luck with the crowd you're about to attract, and see ya on the other side of an instance block (or not, rather).
You realize this name isn't new, right? The poll was to keep the name, not switch to it. If it attracts a certain type of people, they've been attracted this whole time.
Plus the subreddit this community is based on is old af
Quite likely older than the one offended by it.
Yeah it's not new and neither is embracing the right wing basement dweller crowd
It also literally makes fun of it. There is no glorifying of Nazism, it comes from a Zero Punctuation video making fun of PC elitists. Y’all really need to go touch grass.
Fuck I’m as left as they come, even marched in a Pride parade IN FUCKING IDAHO no less this year. And even I see the joke. For fucks sake people.
"I'm as left as they come" is a really weird thing to say to try and defend against criticism from further left... make peace with your reactionary position, or change your opinion, you can't have it both ways
Nice “ no true Scotsman”
Anyway, you’re still not getting it, so I’ll try one more time.
Ever see that “Are we the baddies” skit by Mitchell and Webb? It’s two Nazi officers discussing if they are the bad guys or not after one of them notices all skulls, etc? You know, this guy https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we-the-baddies
No one would probably say that skit is glorifying Nazis. The subs name is the same joke. The “PC Master Race” video it comes from was making the same damn joke. And the sub from Reddit embraced it because, well “Are we the baddies?”
All of this was hashed out once before like 8 years ago (I don’t know how long actually, but my point stands.)
So, to have to argue again (and then get accused of not being “left” enough, seriously? I’m as left as I want to fucking want to be, I’ve stood in a proud boys face and told the Nazi cunt to fuck off while breathing in the sweet fumes of tear gas. When you can say the same you get an opinion)
I’m sorry you can’t get the satire of the name, I really am, as that kind of rigidity just leads to fucking misery.
Hopefully you’ll grow out of it. Hopefully you’ll understand that satires entire purpose is to say “look at this thing in the most ridiculous way and understand how dumb and wrong it is.”
🦆 what's the name for the logical fallacy of incorrectly calling something "no true scotsman"
I wasn't making a generalisation about the identity of leftists, I was saying that "[PC enthusiasts using the term 'master race' to refer to themselves represents] no glorifying of Nazism" is not a leftwing position. this distinction is possible because "left wing" has definitions beyond just "what people who call themselves 'leftwing' think", like promoting social equality, and fighting entrenched hierarchies.
having some leftwing views (and taking leftwing actions, which, nice, thank you for your service, I've done a lot more than shout at someone, get teargassed, or go to a pride march, not saying you don't get an opinion though…) doesn't automatically make your support for using the term "master race" less rightwing.
anyway, "I'm as left as I fucking want to be" is a lot less ridiculous a thing to say than "I'm as left as they come".
PS yes I know mitchell and webb, they're not amazing, "are we the baddies" is definitely a lot better satire than "pc master race" tho.
Stop it. Get some help
Cya
Touch grass, nerd