The title 'Z'

[HyoMinPark]

The title 'Z' that one can obtain for completing their Zodiark zeta is quite old. Given recent events in the Ukraine and the letter Z becoming a pro-Russia symbol, perhaps it's time to change it.

I disagree. Giving the letter the power Russia wants it to have would just be playing right into what they want. Words and letters only have power so long as you let them. ‘Z’ is just a letter; nothing more. Stop giving it the association they want you to give it.

[Kolsykol]

I disagree. Giving the letter the power Russia wants it to have would just be playing right into what they want. Words and letters only have power so long as you let them. ‘Z’ is just a letter; nothing more. Stop giving it the association they want you to give it.

People go out of their way to associate stuff and it just enters realms of absurdity.
It was the same with coding and people going out of their way to find words like '' master '' and '' slave '' and associating it with the history of slavery in the US.
9 out of 10 times it's not even the people it'd be relevant to getting upset about it, and if anything it only makes people take things less seriously ( boy who cried wolf and all that ).
It was the same with the term '' blacklist '', '' black '' being associated with negativity was never a race thing it had to do with the darkness of night vs day and people being afraid of it and in some languages it even had the same meaning as death etc.
But people jump to '' black '' = dark-skinned person, and they don't understand the irony and hypocrisy.

It's the same psychological thing humans have that leads to people associating negative traits to different ethnicties too, humans are kinda hard-wired to look for associations and link things together.
Most people understand how dumb something like this is but some don't and just have tunnel vision.
It's the same with the okay hand sign for example where a bunch of people on 4chan started trolling about how it was a racist dogwhistle and then media outlets and people on social media ran with it and gave into it.
And you had people just accusing random people of being racist for doing it in photos even years back.

It's such a toxic aspect of human psychology and sadly in some people it's way worse and they have zero self-awareness about it.