"This person/this person's SCA kit looks [ ]really farby [ ]really authentic (check one). Therefore, this person is evil and must be out to spoil my good time. (Even though this person hasn't done anything. Yet.)I KNOW! I shall spoil this person's good time FIRST by starting the nasty name calling before this person knows what hit him/her. Brilliant! Why didn't I think of this before? If I start now, I can take over the Knownee Worldee* by tea time . Soon everyone will LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and Despair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or be crying into their piss flavored cornflakes because They Deserve It!"
Godwin's Law infected one of my bastions of civilization today. Who let these barbarians in here? I did an archive search. Nobody's used the term "Nazi" out of proper historical context on that list since 2001! I feel dirty. I feel furious. For the trouble I took to make a polite objection - and it WAS polite - I was treated to more rudeness. Quite honestly, I feel like getting medieval on the person who started it and the person who dived gleefully and nastily onto the pile with such helpful comments as "It's an insult, it's supposed to be offensive."

My father came to the United States at the age of 5 in 1936 from Frankfurt am Main. My grandparents abandoned everything they had because of real Nazis. So yeah, you could say I have a problem with it.
From SCA Corpora, Section 2.B. Requirements for Participation at Society Events: "All participants are expected to behave as ladies and gentlemen."www.sca.org/docs/govdocs.pdf (Appears on p. 15 of this PDF document.) Funny how people feel they are exempt from this requirement if they have a chance to attack someone who is minding their own business pursuing their hobby to the limits of their talents, time and budget.
The world (Known and otherwise) is full of judgemental assholes. Please, don't be one of them.
(*Because if you insist on spelling it with terminal e's you should at least pronounce 'em. Otherwise they'll feel unloved.)
Godwin's Law infected one of my bastions of civilization today. Who let these barbarians in here? I did an archive search. Nobody's used the term "Nazi" out of proper historical context on that list since 2001! I feel dirty. I feel furious. For the trouble I took to make a polite objection - and it WAS polite - I was treated to more rudeness. Quite honestly, I feel like getting medieval on the person who started it and the person who dived gleefully and nastily onto the pile with such helpful comments as "It's an insult, it's supposed to be offensive."

My father came to the United States at the age of 5 in 1936 from Frankfurt am Main. My grandparents abandoned everything they had because of real Nazis. So yeah, you could say I have a problem with it.
From SCA Corpora, Section 2.B. Requirements for Participation at Society Events: "All participants are expected to behave as ladies and gentlemen."www.sca.org/docs/govdocs.pdf (Appears on p. 15 of this PDF document.) Funny how people feel they are exempt from this requirement if they have a chance to attack someone who is minding their own business pursuing their hobby to the limits of their talents, time and budget.
The world (Known and otherwise) is full of judgemental assholes. Please, don't be one of them.
(*Because if you insist on spelling it with terminal e's you should at least pronounce 'em. Otherwise they'll feel unloved.)