Remove "Z" Title

[Communion]

Would you remove, at least temporarily, the "Z" title? That letter is horrifically offensive and violently politically charged today.

My suggestion is to change it to "Zzz..." and be done with it.

[sidurgu-12]

....remove what?

[ICountFrom0]

You know Z, the letter used by PROTESTERS AGAINST THE WAR who lived in Russia? Because if they said "war" or got caught protesting they'd be tortured and killed?

Guess OP is pro war, or anti protester.


( There's an entire topic discussing it to death, where folks figured out trolls would try it eventually)

[Iscah]

You know Z, the letter used by PROTESTERS AGAINST THE WAR who lived in Russia? Because if they said "war" or got caught protesting they'd be tortured and killed?

Guess OP is pro war, or anti protester.

I must have been skimming too much the other day because I didn't realise you have this entirely back to front and everyone else in the thread took it as the accurate version.

It is not a symbol being used by the anti-war protestors but by the pro-war supporters.

And even if, as you claim later, this is all some corruption by the Russians to sweep visible protests under the rug, that's certainly not how it has ever been relayed to us in the media.

It seems that even you are correct in claiming that it began as a protest symbol, which sounds unlikely from the other uses of it (painted on Russian tanks and supported by Russian state media), that understanding has been entirely overwritten both inside and outside of Russia and the anti-war meaning didn't even get reported fleetingly. If they did all that to "take it from the protestors", they have thoroughly succeeded.

Anyone asking for it to be removed from the game at this point is almost certainly concerned at its use as a pro-war symbol.

[sidurgu-12]

aight imma peace out before my head short circuits trying to figure out if this is a troll post.

[ICountFrom0]

aight imma peace out before my head short circuits trying to figure out if this is a troll post.

Probably is. The actual conversation about it is happening in another thread on the front page, sort of thing that's easy to see.

[sidurgu-12]

Probably is. The actual conversation about it is happening in another thread on the front page, sort of thing that's easy to see.

i uh... never visit the front page so i must have missed it lol. ty for the clarification.

[ICountFrom0]

i uh... never visit the front page so i must have missed it lol. ty for the clarification.

Don't worry... hay, for real fun... it's been discussed so much that I can predict....


The troll will either abandon this thread completely and try something else somewhere else, or they'll try to double down.

Either by calling me the troll, or by quoting some russian propaganda, or both.

[sidurgu-12]

Don't worry... hay, for real fun... it's been discussed so much that I can predict....


The troll will either abandon this thread completely and try something else somewhere else, or they'll try to double down.

Either by calling me the troll, or by quoting some russian propaganda, or both.

im betting #1 is already happening.

[Canadane]

Maybe we should remove people who continue to ask for this.