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Originally Posted by Guntified
How can you ask this sort of question already foreseeing the outcome? You say you simply must know. Honestly though, shouldn't you have done a bit more research. Even if it were only reading the few posts you had access to?
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I thought it was far-fetched that anyone here (as in most places in western society) would subscribe to Nazism, yes, but no matter how much I could have researched the guild, there would be no way to entirely alleviate my doubt without asking. I wouldn't have wanted to join a guild only to have discovered later on everyone's a skinhead with memberships in the KKK, or is planting tulips around shrines to Hitler.
I was aware of the Latin phrase and its meaning (it's a favorite of mine actually), and I did know that Roman combat groups were denominated as Legions, though it slipped my mind when I posted. Regardless, one cannot deny that the guild's emblem bears a striking resemblance to not only what the Romans bore, but what Hitler and others bore as well. Numerous members have already acknowledged that it was not unreasonable for me to have had thought the invidious relationship possible. Understandably, most people in the guild thought it ludicrous and absurd to spin up the possibility of a negative interpretation: but it's because they are all familiar with their home. And I didn't mean to come here and trample on that home, only to discover a truth. Hence why I offered my apology beforehand.
As to WWII:
Yes, over 45 million people died. Only 6 million were Jews--but this is out of a world population of only about 9 or 10 million Jews. Over 70% of any group was not lost, and so Jews tend to be a little more wary about pockets of anti-semites after that "lesson."
My question wasn't a "knee-jerk" reaction. It was a question. In my mind only statements can truly be out of place, not questions. It wasn't firm in my mind that anyone here was a national socialist, and I was interested in finding out. If I came here thinking you were all Nazis, and flat-out said so, with righteous indignation, and asked you to prove me wrong, then I would have been way out of place. But as it stands, there's no denying the resemblance of your guild emblem to the Nazi's emblem, and so I felt it was necessary to know the truth. Anything's possible in my mind--I really don't know what goes on behind closed doors.