Blizzard

Just Stop It

wtf

We are sad to say this is just sick :

If there's one word that frustrates content creators, it's "inappropriate," but then how would you describe user-crafted StarCraft II maps harboring anti-Semitic symbols?

Hold on though--what if the symbol were originally sacred to various eastern sects, including Hindus and Buddhists, and whose name (swastika) in its original Sansrkit form meant "lucky" or "auspicious"?

And if the symbol shows up in a StarCraft II map, who decides which one the creator intended?



Just stop it.

It is bad enough there are sick, sick people in the world who are creating the maps, but to have a “news” outlet like PC World trying to defend the practice is just beyond the pale.

Let us explain it to you guys at PC World : 6 million dead people mean using a swastika for any reason, at any time, is a bad thing and is *never* justifiable. We know the Nazis ripped it off, and we know it was a religious symbol, and in some parts of the world it still is. But to a great deal of this planet, Jew and Christian alike, it is one of the most hurtful and offensive things on this planet and so is sticking up for those who would use it.

K? thx bye.