PC Master Race

Racist pieces of shit have already stolen swastikas (meh), viking stuff, white polo shirts, red hats, and the OK hand gesture among many other things that we can no longer in good conscience use. Stop letting these assholes have our words, symbols and clothing items. Take them back, make them our own again.

No one is seriously mistaking the PC Master Race joke with an honest attempt to genocide our way to a "pure race" or some evil shit. Suggesting that the name be changed is cutting the nose off of a community solely in order to spite its face, and doesn't 'protect' anyone.

People complaining about the name are up there with people who think the git branch master is racist. If someone doesn’t want to take a few seconds to understand context, and intends to be offended from the start, they are going to find a reason to be offended.

This whole thing is an exercise in futility. You're going to change the name, someone else will take it and nobody will use the new community because nobody's ever heard of it and pcmr will be there anyway.

If the mods want to switch their name to something else, do it, but don't hold the current community hostage. Go make a new community and hand this one over to someone who wants it.

Part of the joke is the fact that it's so over-the-top. All the suggestions I've seen for possible replacements have been terrible.

I think too many people forgot the satire in the original name.

From my experience with PCMR on reddit since 2017, I've never encountered any pro nazi'ism. This community has always been against those ideals.

Changing the name will do nothing except disenfranchise current members, and make it seem like PCMR was pro-nazi in the past, which it never, ever, was.

Okay, let's use this so the community can discuss further.

Housekeeping note:

• Keep it civil
• Don't be a jerk, nasty, etc.

Just wanted to say thank you to the mods to start this discussion. It will definitely be a heated one, but it was probably needed.

I voted not to change it. I think it would be a dumb move. Like pulling API access...

I personally think if you can't handle the joke, go elsewhere. Stop trying to force everyone else to appease your personal whatever's.

Just a small question, as I thought that the survey was going to July 20 (which seemed long enough). Isn't 20 of August too far in the future?

I'm entirely against changing the name because I think that the whole conversation about why is fucking asanine.

But...

If we do change it, can we change it to "Politically Correct Master Race" for a laugh? The acronym would still work... :)

I am voting for PC Glorious Overlords!

I don't have any real meta discussion. I just have a random name suggestion.

PC Master Class

It's kind of a joke on the idea of a master class in some subject.

Assuming this post stays up, guess I'll start.

(Edit: first off, the question is easy to misread, and I voted the opposite of my intent. So I voted twice in my intended intent to offset it)

I voted yes because I fully recognize it's a joke, but I also fully recognize it's a joke in poor taste.

I watched Yahtzee religiously back in the day, laughed at this specific joke, and thought it was odd a community adopted the name.

I'd also like to point people to this community without awkward introductions.

I'm not personally offended by the name but I understand why it is problematic. If the name stays I won't be upset I get it's not meant in harm, but if people are offended enough by it and want it changed I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. It's not about the name it's about the comradare and community around PC gaming and hardware enthusiasm that we all share. And of course superiority over console plebs (even this mentality seems to have changed, which isn't really a bad thing, although PC is superior to console)

PC Master Race is a joke, people. It haves nothing to do with racist stuff. PC gamers/users are not a race. So I don't get people's problem.

I’ll add my 2 cents

LinusTechTips came out with a line of PCMR merch and the first thing I thought was that I wouldn't be caught dead wearing something that says master race, especially not in one of the major liberal cities on the west coast.

Joke or not it comes across as very insensitive and has imo hasn’t been funny since I was like 12.

Curious to see the results of that poll

RE: "What happens if the name of this community is changed? Lock this existing community and redirect users to the new one (this approach is similar to the Android community on Lemmy World)."

See: https://lemmy.world/post/1661949

I don't think you will be able to cybersquat on c/PCMasterRace, @CatZoomies@lemmy.world. If the community votes to change the name, c/PCMasterRace will be taken over by another set of mods.

voted yes

I always thought the name was cringe.