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PC Master Race

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A community for PC Master Race.

Rules:

  1. No bigotry: Including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No NSFW content.
  4. No Ads / Spamming.
  5. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘stupid’ questions. The world won’t be made better or worse by snarky comments schooling naive newcomers on Lemmy.

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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

@Hurts@lemmy.world @_MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world @Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world @IowaMan@lemmy.world @BobaFett26@lemmy.world @The_Vampire@lemmy.world @Fudgeknuckles98@lemmy.world @CatZoomies@lemmy.world @Xeon@lemmy.ml @geosoco@kbin.social

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

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[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The holocaust is genuinely a tragedy but the only thing connecting it and a joke about PC inferiority/superiority complex are only connected in your perspective

No, what's connecting the two is the use of term "master race", a literal piece of Nazi ideology... which also makes war crimes more than tangentially related.

If your "fun" is causing marginalised people to feel bad then you're punching down, and you need a better sense of humour.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are marginalized? Or are you white knighting this and defending others? Because it sounds a lot like you absolutely do not understand the humor at hand and you can't get past a surface level similarity.

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a surface level similarity

my sibling in christ, the only reason for the use of "master race" is its Nazi history, that's the only cultural reference it is making.

and yes, i am someone that the Nazis would have tried to exterminate. are you? otherwise, consider the idea that it is not your place to be arguing in favor of jokes about Nazi ideology.