Closing this topic as it was handled on the Discord.

Hello,

First and foremost; it is a public forum and everyone is free to respond. Although we do ask that users adhere to the general rules, I don't see any rule breaks in the posts as they are currently. Thanks River, however, for being attentive. But unless users are truly interfering with the appeal process or breaking rules, people are welcome to respond.

It's especially logical more people respond when subjects are so sensitive as this one is. These themes, these hate-groups, are a tender subject for quite some people and the want to respond is understandable.

It's been a while since we had an appeal from you, MV. With most of your appeals, we generally kept it brief as it was obvious time and time again that you had no intention of being well-faithed or honest. So I will take my time to be a bit more broad right now. I have to say, I agree with a lot of what Adroitwheat says.

How curious, that as a buddhist, you were unaware of the negative connotations this sign has unfortunately acrued.

How curious, that as a historian, you built not only one nazi symbol, but multiple, even obscure, nazi symbols.

What a coincidence it must've been that you, a historian, recognized none of them, but somehow kept accidentally building these images!

You claim that your usage of the "Schwarze Sonne" is accidental, but you never really explain how you even got to that specific term. Is your lack of clarification because any internet search of the words will immediately point out it was mainly used by both nazis then and is actively used by neo-nazis now? Or are you suddenly an astronomer now, who purely coincidentally acquired an interest for German translations of rare cosmological phenomena?

Your claim that your time as a US Marine Corps makes it extremely unlikely for you to even think of these types of ideologies is also not as strong as you think.

Here is a research questioning why the US national security contains so many alt-right figures and white supremacists.
The Alt-Right Movement and National Security

That might be a bit of a dry read and you might think that it might not apply to you. You're a marine after all, not national security!
So for you, I have a bit of an easier and a more applicable read. It's a Vice-article. It's called "Why are so many Marines neo-nazis?"
Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?

So yeah, you can keep rattling off the whole 'honor, courage, commitment'-quote, but I think you know as well as I do that all that glitters isn't gold. Those who keep repeating those values can have a tendency to have a bit more honor for one and not for the others, I think you know what I mean.

But I'll let Vice explore that more. It's an interesting article. You should definitely read it. I wonder if the people mentioned in the article also accidentally kept building nazi imagery in a Minecraft server.

There's currently two options:

1. Either you truly didn't know what the symbols meant and that would make you the world's worst historian, which a problem in and of itself. I don't think you would call yourself a historian if you truly knew so little about the most recent world war.

2. Or you did know what it all meant, and you keep overestimating your abilities to tell a convincing lie.

I think it's option 2.

As you might be able to deduce (but I'll be clear, just in case option 1 applies) the appeal is denied. It stays denied and it will be denied in the future.

Not only is your love for nazi symbolism something that does not and never will have a place on the server, you have again and again wasted our time with lies that are so obvious even a mole might think it's a little too easy to see through them.

Maybe take a deradicalisation course. Your desire to build nazi imagery and play meek after is troubling. We know what dog whistles are in this day and age. We're not playing the sheepish 'I didn't know these five nazi symbols were five nazi symbols!!' with you. We know it's untrue, we know you're lying.

You could read 'Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism', it's a book to counter radicalisation. It might help you.

And let it be clear, as also said above, this server will always fight against all forms of hate-speech to stand for a community built on equality, compassion and empathy.

The ban will stay in place. Stop making appeals.

I'm at peace with that.

As you have chosen not to appeal, this thread is now closed.

Smrtono, with respect to your privacy I won't give the exact number, but you have been banned almost the most out of every returning member of Deadmc.

It seems like you're not accepting that actions do have consequences. If you have been banned so often on a server, you can't be racist and expect to be treated with a suede gloves.

You can't keep doing bad things and throw a tantrum when consequences follow.

What you did was bannable with or without your previous ban history and as you are not appealing, but rather fighting, I'll close this thread to prevent profitless discussion. You have some time to give a response as that is fair, but after that it'll be closed.

Smrtono5000:

Plus where was the joke? I exactly know what I have written. And you should know too.

 

 

That's the point, it wasn't a joke. Simply racist.

The rules have a very simple rule against racism, they're not complicated. It's simply not allowed.

Concerning your ban history, it may have been wise to read the rules before.