Nazi’s don’t get to own anything. They got their asses handed to them both physically and ideologically during WW2. And it’s not being used as a way of indirectly targeting marginalized communities in this context.

Just going to tell the story that I broke one of the cardinal rules of PCMR by drunkenly pointing out the origin of “master race” when someone in a PCMR thread was going on about some other group being offensive and how PCMR was so much better.

It’s always been tongue in cheek; it’s meant to be a statement that PCs are superior to consoles. At a certain point it seems like PCMR just turned into talking about PCs. And that’s fine. The sticky thing about it is, if it’s not about jokingly talking about PCs being superior, does it need to be PCMR? On the other hand it’s dang near a brand at this point. Can you move a PCMR audience over to something else entirely?

Que up that DJ Kahled-

Cuz we da BEST!

It’s because they aren’t enthuisiasts, they are PC nuts. Master race is a god way to make fun of them or say “it’s not serious”.

P.S you can make your own magazine or sub instead of complaining.

/m/linuxmasterrace would like a word

…It’s just a popular fad/joke. Nobody is forcing you to “eat it up” tho – just make an alternative community with “a least disturbing name” and move on.

Well it’s a joke by Zero Punctuation years ago, that sub is inspired by that joke, this community is the colony of that sub.

The term is used facetiously. There are much better things to be offended by, sir.

Just block the community if you don’t like interacting with it.

The term has always been somewhat tongue in cheek, in part because it goes against the principles of PCMR to actually be elitist about liking PC. But also because it’s a lightly mocking response to outside claims of superiority over PC that were rampant in the past (usually while lacking objective reasons for said superiority).

In my opinion, the term has grandfathered in to such a degree that it’s relation to how Nazis used the word is kind of disingenuous to attach to PCMR at this point, since it’s obvious the two uses aren’t the same.

I also don’t really blame the fact the name was kept, because that’s what people migrating will be looking for. If they can’t find it easily, someone else is just going to make it and the community will split. Who knows though, if people agree, maybe Lemmy will provide an option to rename the community - once it’s grown large enough or something.

Yeah, I agree. What comes to my mind first is “Which person did they nominate as PC Hitler?” or “Are they gonna joke about console Jews now?”

I’m sure the community is perfectly fine, but the name is gross and awful. It’s the reason I never went there on Reddit and probably won’t here either, and I don’t imagine I’m the only one. It’s not welcoming at all. It seems normal if you’re used to it, I guess, but having a Nazi reference in your name is not a good look. You’d be better off ditching it now you have the opportunity imo.