A reaffirmation and reminder of rule 2

"Remove kebab" is a meme which supports a genocide

You're simply assumes the claim I'm disputing. Remember I'm responding to "I'm eager for clarification for the mods as to how you could invoke "remove kebab" without it being racist." That's not simply a claim that, on net, one should ban a phrase.

culturally appropriated by paradox fans into something that appears to me to be nearly always utterly banal (I surfed EU4 related content for about a year before learning of the phrase's origins).

I invoked "f*** the Karlings" sentiment precisely because I thought everyone could agree such sentiment isn't intended to voice any larger political or cultural message and it's clearly a meme that emerges out of gameplay. Are you really saying that it conjures up a "threat of genocide" that is only avoided because all Karlings are dead? I don't think so but if you're committed to that interpretation it's logically consistent.

Muslims and survivors of the bosnian genocide

these two groups need to be separated. If people are intentionally invoking the Bosnian genocide you wouldn't get the "remove baguette" meme and it would be trivially easy to justify a ban.


I think it's impossible to read the vast majority of "remove kebab" memes on paradox forums as referencing the bosnian genocide because it became a paradox in joke a long time ago and the meme's original origins fell away (as I noted above and I don't see you disputing).

Of course, one could still decide such comments should be banned for the phrase's origins but it strikes me as impossible to argue, as OP did, that such jokes are racist and I don't even think they're intended as "edgy."

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