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So according to Riot some names are offensive!

Giggling Granny··3 votes·1,137 views

So if you have the name hitler or stalin or what ever you get your name change.....

And that because they are linked to a person who did some bad things...

But the name hitler was over 60% used in the early 1900 and after the Normal hitler the name was stop used

But my user name "Giggling Granny" is linked to a person who murder 40 people and burried them....and she got that name because in the court when the judge was saying what she does she was Giggling....guess what everyone who see my user name has no problem with it

But with the A NORMAL name "Hitler" everyone is offended....

That make you wonder..what is really offensive? something that really offend us or something mainstream that the mainstream culture want to be offended by....

And that how riot work...you can put serial killer names but if they are not well known riot would not care

And i can drop the ratio a bit more if i put the name of the norwegian serial killer who kill kids in a island i would get my name change but if i put the name of a Ped-ophile that kill and rape 150 kids and burried them in his house in mexico RIOT would not even care because he is not mainstream....

So what really offensive Riot?

20 Comments

TrulyBland4 votes

First things first: For people to be offended, they need to understand the reference. If something is obscure, people won't be offended, but very importantly: If something is obscure, it isn't really provocative either. I can't really provoke with something that I believe you won't understand well enough to be offended by.

That ties in very well with the second point I want to make: If you do know that something is going to be considered offensive, and you choose to still communicate it, you are ultimately being. You might have good reasons for doing what you are doing, but you are still willingly provoking others.

So with that in mind, even if your name is indeed Hitler: Your summoner name is a chosen name. if you choose the name Hitler, you are provoking people. And if the only reason you have for that is "it's actually my name" then I'd argue that's simply not enough to justify this choice. Especially given that you really should be very careful when sharing private information on the internet.

DraygenBiscuit2 votes

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First things first: For people to be offended, they need to understand the reference. If something is obscure, people won't be offended, but very importantly: If something is obscure, it isn't really provocative either. I can't really provoke with something that I believe you won't understand well enough to be offended by.

That ties in very well with the second point I want to make: If you do know that something is going to be considered offensive, and you choose to still communicate it, you are ultimately being. You might have good reasons for doing what you are doing, but you are still willingly provoking others.

So with that in mind, even if your name is indeed Hitler: Your summoner name is a chosen name. if you choose the name Hitler, you are provoking people. And if the only reason you have for that is "it's actually my name" then I'd argue that's simply not enough to justify this choice. Especially given that you really should be very careful when sharing private information on the internet.

Wait no, If that is his name in real life and he explains that to people who ask, I don't see how it would be offensive at all... In fact I think people would feel sorry for him! I mean poor little Hitler prolly got bullied in school.

TrulyBland3 votes

Just because it's his real name doesn't mean he has to choose it as his summoner name.

Look, to me this complaint seems similar to how some people wear swastika necklaces and the likes, just so they can say "Dude, it has nothing to do with the Nazis!". Or if you want an even more poignant comparison: It's similar to how people pretend they didn't call somebody a homophobic slur, but merely a bundle of sticks.

Wherever there are rules against rude behaviour or even just social norms, there are childish idiots that try to hide behind ambiguity and technicalities.

DraygenBiscuit1 votes

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Just because it's his real name doesn't mean he has to choose it as his summoner name.

Look, to me this complaint seems similar to how some people wear swastika necklaces and the likes, just so they can say "Dude, it has nothing to do with the Nazis!". Or if you want an even more poignant comparison: It's similar to how people pretend they didn't call somebody a homophobic slur, they just called them a bundle of sticks.

Wherever there are rules against rude behaviour, there are childish idiots that try to hide behind ambiguity and technicalities.

Well I mean it depends on whether it is really their name, if they are just saying that it is their name then it is exactly like you are saying. However if it really is their name that it isn't offensive at all because you are talking about a kid and not a historical figure. In this case it would be more comparable to the people who say they are offended by confederate flags, because the civil war was all about slavery. Anyone who actually looks it up could tell you that the civil war had almost nothing to do with slavery until the emancipation proclamation was signed. The civil war was mostly about trade.

LightSword3 votes

The idea is that people are getting forced name changes because people are reporting them, and they will probably go through some kind of filter to determine whether or not it needs to be changed. It wouldn't make sense for Riot to look up every individual mass murderer (or anything of the like) in order to ban the names. Things like "Hitler" and "Stalin" are banned because they are known around the world for their deeds. You don't have to agree with their determination, but that is how it is determined.

Giggling Granny1 votes

Anders Behring Breivik -Offensive -Mainstream -69deaths

Luis Garavito -not Offensive -Not mainstream -150-300 deaths and rape of kids!

So like i say its all about what the mainstream media show the offensive otherwise is not!

Bettnachleger3 votes

You can't be offended by something you don't know .... That doesn't make any sense.

Giggling Granny1 votes

and who choose what you would know and what not?

Because i am pretty sure if you werent a mindless creature you would know stuff about the world and not just the things the news throw at your thoat in order to fit their adenda!!

That the problem....who told you about anders breivik? the NEWS why? because it was an agenda they needed to fill....but what is worst from this 2 examples and what should have covered? that one problem

The second is that you CHOOSE to be offended by something that someone throw at you and say to you "Look at IT FROM NOW ON THIS WOULD OFFEND YOU" and you dont open your eyes to see that there is bigger than this

So gj with your life choisess

TrulyBland3 votes

Okay, to counter this whole "agenda" and "mainstream" argument:

18<insertnamehere>88

Do you think a name like that would be marked as offensive or not?

TroIIModeI2 votes

the age of the safe space and the pansies who need it. omg letters hurt me im gonna cri wa wa waa waaaaaa

DraygenBiscuit1 votes

ok First off "But the name Hitler was over 60% used in the early 1900 and after the Normal Hitler the name was stop used" You do realize Hitler was his last name, right? His first name was Adolf. Therefore there are probably still a lot of Hitlers out there, unless they changed their name in shame, or died out. Same with Stalin, those are both last names. I didn't know Hitler was ever used as a first name, and it seems kinda odd... Are you sure that info is accurate? The main problem with Hitler and Stalin was that they became symbols for hate, whereas no one knows who giggling granny is, and if they do, shes just a symbol for a psychotic killer, kinda like Jack the Ripper.

Giggling Granny1 votes

"name" as all surname and name was very used in germany and austria in the early 1900 and they are still people today with the surname hitler!!! and like i say already i drop the ratio and i compare 2 serial killers one who kill over 150 kids and one who kill 12 but the one who kill 12 is "offensive" because its mainstream and the other is not!!!

Glîtchy1 votes

Don't forget people are trying to erase WWII from history lessons completely, and secondly when you hear/read "Hitler" who do you think of first?

Aside from that and back on the WWII removal, people want it removed solely because it shows a dark side of humanity while others just don't want to be compared to them even tho they share similar ideologies.

DraygenBiscuit1 votes

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Don't forget people are trying to erase WWII from history lessons completely, and secondly when you hear/read "Hitler" who do you think of first?

Aside from that and back on the WWII removal, people want it removed solely because it shows a dark side of humanity while others just don't want to be compared to them even tho they share similar ideologies.

When you really start looking into history, specifically American history, you realize that what you learned in school, is in not even accurate anyway. History is already messed up, they teach you what they want our history to be, and because people believe it, it becomes fact. That's just how history works unfortunately. It is all just Tall tales.

Drugoth1 votes

"History is written by the victors."

-Winston Churchill

Drugoth1 votes

Well, considering I had no clue this giggling granny was a thing in the first place I can see why your name hasn't been reported yet. Compared to a name like Hitler or Stalin, Giggling Granny is extremely obscure and the chances of someone recognizing it and being offended by it are much smaller than such infamous figures.

Giggling Granny1 votes

i drop the ratio..if you read all the post...and i compare the guy in norway with the guy in mexico...guess what the name of the guy from norway is "offensive" while the name of the guy from mexico is not!

So like i say its all about what the mainstream media want you to be offended by

Bettnachleger1 votes

His firstname was adolf ........

ModPeriscope1 votes

I don't see a problem with your name.

It's players who report on names. The more informed the player base is, the more likely you would be reported.

TesTaCull Prime 1 votes

I'm trying to figure out when "Nuts" became inappropriate. This is a word featured on many children's cartoons for forever.

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