Name Change is in Order

[Diggles]

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

You may be of the Jewish heritage, that does not make you a victim of th Jewish holocaust. You should be ashamed of yourself for thinking you felt or went through what they experienced for you to be here today. Especially with you taking a word and categorizing it to one particular group, when there have been many holocausts in our history.

[Knuckle]

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

If there's one person who in all honesty was offended by this name to the point of quitting the server, that's one person too much. Guild names are not artistic expression and are not protected by first amendment rights.

I'm not going to quit playing here because of the name. My skin is far too thick for something like that. I also would have never made a thread like this without someone else posting it. But I am going to jump to their defense if they honestly do feel offended because I expect the same of other civilized compassionate human beings. Frankly I was a little shocked by the name when I first saw it, and how people could be so insensitive.

Oh wait, it's the TZVZjects that we're talking about in Holocaust, of course I'm not surprised. We all should know damn well that they picked the name because it was controversial. Do you seriously think that the fact that the Holocaust has such powerful emotional overtones never factor into their selection of the name? Get real.

I take guild names very seriously on everquest

[pickled_heretic]

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

I take guild names very seriously on everquest

Don't oppress my right to make the guild <******cide> bro

[mitic]

this is a no brainer, 18 pages are proof enuf. just rename them to homocaust and everyone will be happy

[Diggles]

I absolutely hate everyone in Holocaust just because of the forums, and I still don't think their name should be changed. If someone is so soft that they're willing to quit the server OVER A GUILD NAME, they'd probably quit from PKs or something anyway. It's a retarded argument.

[Lincoln Wiped On Opera] [More PKs than Hitler] [Iraqi Double Tap]

[pickled_heretic]

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

If someone is so soft that they're willing to quit the server OVER A direct reference to the mass slaughter of millions of human beings, they'd probably quit from PKs or something anyway. It's a retarded argument.

You got me there dawg

[Diggles]

Until the Holocaust GM comes in here and says it's a reference to THE holocaust, you have no evidence and it's just a word.

[pickled_heretic]

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

Until the Holocaust GM comes in here and says it's a reference to THE holocaust, you have no evidence and it's just a word.

I don't get to tell you what I mean when I call you a ******.

[Diggles]

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

I don't get to tell you what I mean when I call you a ******.

comparing an insulting adjective to a noun is not the same thing. Stop it, fatty.

[pickled_heretic]

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

comparing an insulting adjective to a noun is not the same thing. Stop it, fatty.

I'm not a retarded failed abortion of a grammar nazi like Uthgaard is, you don't have to worry about being judged on grammatical correctness. There's a lot wrong with this statement, but you can be forgiven.

What you're saying is something like this: ****** is pejorative while holocaust isn't and therefore the comparison is invalid. Like I said before, if the name were explicitly "Jewish Genocide" it would still be inappropriate, even though "Jewish Genocide" is not explicitly pejorative. Therefore, whether or not a term is pejorative is irrelevant to the criteria. If a significant portion of the population considers the two to be synonyms, the name "Holocaust" is not appropriate either for the same reason. That's why the comparison was used.