Dear Paradox Team,
i know about the political situation of Deus Vult. I know the alt-rights are using it to proclaim their propaganda to wipe out the middle east. But please let me make a suggestion and consider it: Keep Deus Vult in the game. Why?
Most of the people playing your game know about the use of this words in a historical context. People on social media are often loud and offended, but they are a minority and not your main player base.
I am from germany myself and we are having problems with nazis and their "stealing" of phrases and symbols too. They used the swastika and made a symbol of luck into a symbol of hate. Many of them, at least in germany, like vikings and their symbols/letters. So you could delete vikings too. Some radical muslims use the word jihad as a word for fighting the christians/western. Shall we remove that word too?
You see, if you start removing things like "Deus Vult", you can search for many more "modern" usage of historical words and remove them, but:
Don't do this! The nazis have done so much damage over the history. War Crimes, killing people because they had the wrong religion/culture or were handicapped/disabled and for many more reasons. They have tainted symbols and occupied countries and so much more crimes, you all know what they have done.
And not just the nazis, every radical group has done damage, too.
Every time we censore something of culture/art or historical context to please people, it feels like another victory for radical groups. Censoring something it not the right way. The right way is to educate people and teach them the origin of such phrases, not giving in to their propaganda and censore our art and culture.
I hope you reconsider the use of Deus Vult. I am a long-time paradox fan and hope you keep up the good work.
Best regards,
Rulthar
i know about the political situation of Deus Vult. I know the alt-rights are using it to proclaim their propaganda to wipe out the middle east. But please let me make a suggestion and consider it: Keep Deus Vult in the game. Why?
Most of the people playing your game know about the use of this words in a historical context. People on social media are often loud and offended, but they are a minority and not your main player base.
I am from germany myself and we are having problems with nazis and their "stealing" of phrases and symbols too. They used the swastika and made a symbol of luck into a symbol of hate. Many of them, at least in germany, like vikings and their symbols/letters. So you could delete vikings too. Some radical muslims use the word jihad as a word for fighting the christians/western. Shall we remove that word too?
You see, if you start removing things like "Deus Vult", you can search for many more "modern" usage of historical words and remove them, but:
Don't do this! The nazis have done so much damage over the history. War Crimes, killing people because they had the wrong religion/culture or were handicapped/disabled and for many more reasons. They have tainted symbols and occupied countries and so much more crimes, you all know what they have done.
And not just the nazis, every radical group has done damage, too.
Every time we censore something of culture/art or historical context to please people, it feels like another victory for radical groups. Censoring something it not the right way. The right way is to educate people and teach them the origin of such phrases, not giving in to their propaganda and censore our art and culture.
I hope you reconsider the use of Deus Vult. I am a long-time paradox fan and hope you keep up the good work.
Best regards,
Rulthar
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