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Roleplaying Fascists

Unread postby icycalm » 01 Nov 2025 18:57

Interesting discussion in an SC thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... nt/nmib5q3

JimothyBrentwood wrote:no, why would you want to put space nazi shit all over your vehicle?


Livid-Feedback-7989 wrote:It's a game. Am I a nazi if I play Germany in ww2 strategy games? XD


JimothyBrentwood wrote:You don't play as XT in this game.

You are a nazi if you roleplay as them and try to pass off the red armband as an aesthetic fashion choice, which is basically what a ship skin amounts to


Livid-Feedback-7989 wrote:So, if you find their ship skins cool, or their armour and you wear it, it somehow amounts to roleplay and you being a nazi? I sometimes wear the xenothreat armour we got back in the day. I don't play any different, I don't pretend to be a xenophobe just because I wear it.


StarHiker79 wrote:Jimmy just has some problems of his own. You can use the cool skins you like, and you can even roleplay a nazi without being a nazi. Have fun at it.


PurpleBicorn wrote:
You are a nazi if you roleplay as them


I wouldn't go that far. Roleplay and agreeing/believing an ideology are not even remotely the same. You can roleplay as a Nazi without actually believing in the ideology. By your logic any actor who ever played a Nazi on any media is a Nazi. Which is a stretch. Then you have the people who have played any game that has Nazis in it and a Nazi campaign. Hey, in Wolfenstein you pretend to be a Nazi, does that mean everyone who played that game (a game about killing Nazis) is a Nazi?

I can see wanting to RP as XT for the challenge that comes with siding with them. But... I mean... It's 100% fictional. You can't be prejudiced against the Banu, Tevarin, Xi'an, Vanduul, or any of the Xenos in SC cause you know they aren't real. You can't be a Nazi against an imaginary construct.


Brilliant replies. But still... if you enjoy playing Nazis, you're at least a little Nazi, as the guy that takes the cake explains:

StarHiker79 wrote:Well said. But fiction is never 100% fictional, it is always rooted in real-world counterparts. Therefore, any deeper conversation about this topic would consider the use of substitutes, subliminal or otherwise, to channel expressions and behaviors that are shunned in the surrounding society.
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