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A Legendary piece of Destiny 2 armor features a very slightly tweaked version of the "KEK" logo featured on the Kekistan flag, which has become a popular white supremacist symbol in the United States and elsewhere. It's the Road Complex AA1 gauntlets, and you can look at them in the screenshot above. |
A reader sent us a link to the item on Bungie's website this morning, saying that they hadn't been able to get a response from the Destiny social accounts. We've reached out to Activision and Bungie for comment on what happened here, what the items removal process is, and what actions will be taken internally regarding this situation. If we receive comment, we will update this story. |
In the meantime, Bungie just announced that they are now aware of the problem and will be removing the item. |
Which is a start, but they are reaching when they say, "It is not intentional." I'm sure it's not intentional on the part of Bungie or Activision. But it's the intent of someone. |
Without going into the long lineage of bullshit memes that are the signs and sigils of modern white supremacy's public face, the "Kekistan flag" combines a popular internet shorthand that became a symbol of white supremacist sympathies with the German military flag of Hitler's Third Reich. Drawing an explicit connection to Nazi violence was of course the point of the flag, allowing white supremacists to reskin the classic symbols of Nazism in a way that would fly under many people's radars, providing a bit of camouflage to their efforts to reassert themselves into public spaces and modern political discourse. |
Which is why the flag was so prominently on display at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist aimed a car into a crowd of protesters and murdered one of them and injured dozens of others. |
After those events, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization which monitors hate groups in America, offered analysis about the flag's purpose in these groups: |
The "national flag of Kekistan" mimics a German Nazi war flag, with the Kek logo replacing the swastika and the green replacing the infamous German red. A 4chan logo is emblazoned in the upper left hand corner. Alt-righters are particularly fond of the way the banner trolls liberals who recognize its origins. |
To be clear, the iconography on the Road Complex AA1 gauntlets is not identical, but its green coloration, and the shape of the KEK lettering are obvious signals. Doubtless there will be people who refuse to acknowledge the very clear symbolism here, much in the same way that the Kekistan flag itself was designed to give overt symbols of Nazi allegiance an ironic cover story. The entire cartoonish nature of modern white supremacist symbolism is to make clear, sincere statements of belief that believers can then turn around and masquerade as an edgy joke. |
But that's a shell game where in the name of fairness someone can be asked to provide endless proof of what is evident to the naked eye. It's a way to make victims and targets seem ridiculous while their abusers and assailants are portrayed as mere jesters from the court of internet dadaism, with no connection to real-world harassment and violence. |
It's how the unspeakable and shameful has become commonplace in this moment, and we cannot continue to buy the innocent explanations for actions with a clear, violent intent.<|endoftext|>Get the biggest daily stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email |
Teenage Euromillions winner Jane Park has revealed she wants to sue Lotto bosses for “ruining her life”. |
Jane Park was 17 when she scooped £1million after getting lucky with her first-ever ticket in 2013. |
Now, she is planning to take legal action against Euromillions for negligence, claiming someone her age shouldn’t have been allowed to win. |
Now 21, the wealthy property investor admits she thought winning the jackpot would make her life “10 times better”. Instead, she insists it “became 10 times worse”. |
In an incredible interview, Jane even says sometimes she wishes she “had never won at all”. |
Her frank admission come days after she pled not guilty to a drink-driving charge at a McDonald’s in her home city of Edinburgh. |
But while most of her friends are struggling to make ends meet, Jane insists life is actually more stressful for her – because she was saddled with the burden of a being a millionaire as a teenager. |
Despite owning two homes, Jane says the win has even taken the fun out of shopping because she can afford anything she wants. |
Stressing that life isn’t all “Champagne and sparkles”, she even moans that being able to afford luxury holidays to hotspots such as the Maldives are not fun as older people at resorts look down on her for getting “hammered”. |
Jane is now consulting with solicitors about taking legal action against the owners of Euromillions, saying the age limit should be raised from 16. |
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In a comment that will leave those on the breadline furious, she said: “People look at me and think, ‘I wish I had her lifestyle, I wish I had her money’ but they don’t realise the extent of my stress. |
“They don’t know what they’re wishing for. They would need to spend some time in my shoes to understand. |
“I have material things but apart from that, my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?” |
She added: “I think 18 should be the minimum age for winning the lottery, at the least. The current age of 16 is far too young. |
“At times, it feels like winning the lottery has ruined my life. I thought it would make it 10 times better but it’s made it 10 times worse. |
“Most days, I wish I had no money. I say to myself, ‘My life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won.’ And if I had won £100million, it would have been 100 times worse than this.” |
When she won in 2013, Jane, then 17, toasted her win with Irn-Bru as she was too young to drink. She was working in a temporary admin job and living with her mum Linda in a two-bedroom flat in a council estate in Niddrie, Edinburgh. |
She said: “I wasn’t allowed a bottle of Champagne, so I got Irn-Bru in a glass. But I was given £1million, how does that add up?” |
Four years on, she feels she never really understood what difference the money would make to her life. |
Jane said: “My nana said when I first got the money, ‘You might as well have given her a gun.’ I was like, ‘Nana, what are you talking about? This is the best thing ever?’ |
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