Hello PCMR community!
On July 13th, we asked the community for your opinion if you would like to change the name of this community.
Results of the Survey :
- Yes - 28.1%
- No - 71.9% (winner)
Of the 1,201 responses received, we as a community have democratically decided that we should not change the name from PC Master Race. I am grateful to our community for your input, as this was a difficult topic to navigate together.
If you would like to review the history of this, please check out this post here: https://lemmy.world/post/1430610
We'll pin this post for some time and then consider adding a bullet into the sidebar for this Community to help stave off further discussions around this topic as the community has already decided collectively.
Kind regards,
The Moderator Team
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EDIT 30-Aug-2023:
Due to some of the recent targeted attacks against Lemmy.world, I noticed that the image I shared with this post was purged from their servers.
Here's a new screenshot of the results for posterity: https://i.postimg.cc/jqNg5gWx/pcmrsurvey.png
Well, actually it's one of my dirty hobbies, though normally on other topics that are more fun
Please refer to my other answer for clarification https://lemmy.world/comment/2710158
Of course I accept when some people think, that some words can not be reclaimed (some of them can't), but I hope those people can accept, that other people don't necessarily share that view without them inherently being Nazis.
I don't mean "master race" is reclaimable in normal lingo, it is a shitty concept in itself, but the way the term PCMR was originally intended (as a sarcastic poke at the superiority complex of PC gamers) is acceptable use in my opinion, because it goes against the original meaning of a superior race and makes fun of it.
Not meaning you especially, but in general I think completely ignoring context is a bad way to lay fundament to your argumentation and it doesn't help when some people automatically pull the Nazi accusations out of nowhere (exaggerated example: "you eat meat? You are just as bad as the Nazis, they also took many lives") like it happens on social media every day. The only thing that gets accomplished with this kind of argument is inciting a trench war between these people and removing any chance of finding a common denominator or another solution that could satisfy both sides.
I don't think all PCMR members are Nazis or right-wing ideologists by the name PCMR alone and I hope the vast majority doesn't take that supposed superiority seriously, which would be sad indeed.