How considerate should we be when we choose a screen name... and in general?
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My point is that while you see your avatar as a statement about your connection to law enforcement, others might see it in a different light. Similarly, while you don't like whoever it is with a devil avatar, they might see that avatar as meaning something entirely different than you do. I'll ask you again though... why do you use an avatar with the thin blue line put over a fractured skull? Is this a threat of violence toward whomever does not agree with you? Why not use an apple overlaid with the same image?
Here is a link for you. It is not fair and unbiased, but it will help answer the question of "why is supporting blue-lives-matter offensive" to some people.
Personally I'm just happy you found happiness... who am I to judge if it is with an ice cream sundae?
What's say we start a poll to see how many members are actually offended by avatar images that contain a blue line.
As a poorly endowed Satanist the new MFK logo inspires confidence
Ok lets dance lol. My dislike for that member has nothing to do with his avatar, i dont like him because of who he is, i dont like his avatar but that is very different from saying i find it offensive. To each his own.
As for the fractured skull you'll have to find the artist and ask him/her what the intended meaning is. Violence does not bother me one bit, if someone takes it that way then so be it im not going to justify or plead to anyone how to interpret the picture. I will say that I LIKE IT because it portreys what we are....crack ourskulls if you have to but we'll still be there day in and day out to do our job.
Dont mean to be rude but i didnt open the link and dont intend to. Ive read enough media garbage about the blue lives matter logo. What i asked was why DO YOU feel its offensive or would be taken as offensive by others.
I find it offensive that people on the other side of this for the most parts are hypocrites they want their cake, the icing, the glass of milk, and the utensils plus the tabke they are eating it on. I have no issues with someone being anti-law enforcement as long as they dont depend on the law to keep them safe.
Part of my sentencing was 0 contact with ice cream or related products...no happiness found
Im in, im sure you'll agree with this though... i could care less if people find it offensive. I find it offensive that someone else finds it offensive but still lacks the backbone to NOT DIAL 911 when the boogy man shows up.
Im the president of said club. Was going to pm you the registration forms as membership is open to all hahah
let get this straight real fast lol, you want me to join a club in which we profess how much my presence offends people?? lol
You know...I've really contemplated finding people who are anti-police, not anti-police brutality, and stealing their stuff. Who they gonna call? ghost busters? and heck ya, free stuff.
We had already figured it out that we don't see eye to eye on the MFK logo with you, which is quite fine and dandy and rather inconsequential.
I don't think I can add much to what I have already stated. Logo is a statement to me. Any Company's logo is a much thought-through symbol, a statement that speaks to people on both conscious and subconscious levels, in which way it is designed to work as an advertisement. It tell people about the essence of the Company. It's a statement.
I just wish MFK's statement about itself didn't utilize the immediately recognizable traits of a harmful and evil spiritual being.
I agree that MFK doesn't promote that dark spirituality in words or otherwise but the logo coupled with the word monster (which otherwise could be merely about the size) carry a meaning that's not uncertain.
Quote: "Hypocritical Definition by
[1] characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel :
[2] characterized by hypocrisy said that it was hypocritical to demand respect from students without respecting them in return."
[1] MFK claims to believe or feel (for our own benefit
which is nice and I appreciate it) that religious and spiritual discussions are not to occur but designs a logo that invokes an evil spiritual being in no uncertain terms. As pointed out above, this being is deemed evil by way more people and cultures, perhaps 99%+, than just Christians.[2] ... it was hypocritical to demand respect from students without respecting them in return. = it is hypocritical to state we are spiritually and religiously neutral and please let's keep off this topic meanwhile crowning all the site activity on every page with a logo that can be seen as invoking a spiritual / religious figure by anybody who'd pay a moment's worth attention to it, again because of the universal recognition of the symbol.
Yet, again, these are just my takes and thoughts. I am not hung up on it, meditate on it, or am offended by it. We can agree to disagree and be thankful we got to know each other better, if we are so inclined. People become closer and even friendlier the more they feel they know each other.
As for private avatars, they are 1000x easier to ignore as they don't carry the power of the MFK's logo. A completely different weight category and impact. A guppy versus Ariberto's 40" African tigerfish
A knife-wielding diver versus a nuclear-armed submarine 