Warhammer 40,000: Darktide reviewed by Kyle Campbell on PC, also available on Xbox.This 40k follow-up to Fatshark's Vermintide games is one of the most enter...
It’s not a stretch. Chan white supremacists have been using the ok sign as a dogwhistle for a long time. Why do you think people find it so funny in the video’s comments?
I don’t see how someone doing a mudra to “channel energy” is inherently a fascist dogwhistle.
Not inherently, no.
This one hand gesture drawn from Vedic tradition finds its way into an aesthetic palette made from Christendom, Roman, Gothic, Wehrmacht and other European influences. There are so many ways they could visually cue “quelling the peril” and they chose that one. Nobody stopped and said “hey, maybe we should pick a different gesture, 40k already gets so much heat for being a fascist dog whistle.” They put it in. And the result, intended or not, is evident from that Youtube video.
fascist dogwhistle in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kktm-AHYqN0
Great, now I’m afraid to click the link.
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It’s not a stretch. Chan white supremacists have been using the ok sign as a dogwhistle for a long time. Why do you think people find it so funny in the video’s comments?
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Well that’s how dogwhistles work
Also Hindutva is not the same as Hinduism
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Then what does this sign have to do with Hindutva?
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Fair
Not inherently, no.
This one hand gesture drawn from Vedic tradition finds its way into an aesthetic palette made from Christendom, Roman, Gothic, Wehrmacht and other European influences. There are so many ways they could visually cue “quelling the peril” and they chose that one. Nobody stopped and said “hey, maybe we should pick a different gesture, 40k already gets so much heat for being a fascist dog whistle.” They put it in. And the result, intended or not, is evident from that Youtube video.