Google Holocaust

[DrKvothe]

I just started on red and my only experience with Holo has been entirely positive. Very helpful and friendly people. I don't know much about guilds on this server, but I've been told they're pretty much the top endgame raiding guild on the server, and for that reason I might join up some day.

With that said, the guild name is CLEARLY offensive and I don't understand how anybody can find it inoffensive. I think it's in incredibly poor taste. That the word can technically apply to any genocide does not change the fact that for hundreds of millions of people across this planet, the word immediately conjures images of a specific bitter and personal tragedy.

Voluntarily changing the name costs them nothing and may allow them to recruit those who are too personally offended by the name to join up...just saying!

[MavstabYoudead]

Originally Posted by DrKvothe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just started on red and my only experience with Holo has been entirely positive. Very helpful and friendly people. I don't know much about guilds on this server, but I've been told they're pretty much the top endgame raiding guild on the server, and for that reason I might join up some day.

With that said, the guild name is CLEARLY offensive and I don't understand how anybody can find it inoffensive. I think it's in incredibly poor taste. That the word can technically apply to any genocide does not change the fact that for hundreds of millions of people across this planet, the word immediately conjures images of a specific bitter and personal tragedy.

Voluntarily changing the name costs them nothing and may allow them to recruit those who are too personally offended by the name to join up...just saying!

In before they question your education level. Good post.

[HippoNipple]

Originally Posted by DrKvothe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think it's in incredibly poor taste. That the word can technically apply to any genocide does not change the fact that for hundreds of millions of people across this planet, the word immediately conjures images of a specific bitter and personal tragedy.

It is a PvP guild, meaning the idea is to kill everyone not in the guild. It makes sense for a PvP guild to be named holocaust.

[Bodybagger]

Yeah but how is saying holocaust offensive? No one loses their mind if you say nuclear holocost... it doesn't conjure up visions of us nuking Jews... it's just a word.

You guys are absolutely retarded. Sheep mentality in full effect. I wish someone would holocaust you morans. *SMFH*

If it were up to you jackasses Adolph Hitler would be referred to as "He Who Must not be Named". Yall go see the great wizard in the emerald city and ask for a damn brain.

[Bodybagger]

<Nuclear Holocaust>, upgraded to nukes and nuking Jews since 2015.

Pras morans

[Thyrm]

Nobody playing on this server has any recollection of the jewish holocaust, so it's not really a 'personal tragedy' or 'conjuring up images'...

What you choose to associate with a word is entirely up to you.

[Bodybagger]

I'm going to make a guild called <Famine> and see if the Irish people have a call to arms over me mocking the plight of their people...

[quido]

I will throw a FUCKING FIT if you make any reference to the potato blight that brought my ancestors to America.

[Pikrib]

Originally Posted by quido [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I will throw a FUCKING FIT if you make any reference to the potato blight that brought my ancestors to America.

It was a potato holocaust.

[quido]

lol I stand corrected