The point is that someone who explicitly bans antifa from their site isn't likely to consider a war memoir to be neo-Nazi content (especially since, according to Ian, the manuscript makes no mention of any such topics) just because some (soon to be banned) antifa members sent them nasty emails.
It really wouldn't be a problem if not for how overt and overbearing the censorship on every mainstream platform has become. If you don't hold those beliefs why would you leave the mainstream platform when you can stay there? And so inevitably anyone who touts free speech can only attract people who wouldn't even have a voice anywhere else. I don't think these companies understand that if they laxed up on their ToS when it came to unacceptable opinions they'd probably see these actual fringe groups go through a diaspora and more or less die out again.
To be fair, if I ran the Ukrainian Army I wouldn't want to have to deal with integrating a ton of LARPers who probably don't even speak the language into regular units. Foreign fighters are common a whole range of conflicts, but in ones when they are primarily attracted by ideology (ex: westerners who went to fight with the Kurds in Syria and Arabs who went to Afghanistan during the war with the Soviets) they are often not the best soldiers and instead are kept around in support roles because they can be useful for political reasons and in getting funds and supplies. It's not like a handful of Swedish dudes is going to be the thing that stops a Russian invasion, so having them join militias instead is pretty sensible.
I don't like how a lot of these "Good you realized this was a bad idea" comments are in a group subject. It's not "I forgive your mistake", it's "WE forgive your mistake". It makes it come off more a mob got real angry at him and didn't like him trying to do something different and a bit against the grain.
"WE forgive you this time, Ian, but WE will be monitoring for further wrongthink."
I wonder if any private collections might quietly become unavailable to him if they learn of this.
DeviantOllam looks like a dude that would have shot up his high school
His wife looks like the demon he would have shot up his high school to try summoning.
We're so desensitized to depictions and descriptions of terrible shit that first world problems dictate the flavor of fighter to be the problem.
Is it true desensitization or is that we're so far from removed from it we cannot truly comprehend it in the first place?
Desensitized to the descriptions of it, primarily, but so far removed from actual duress and suffering that violence in one's vicinity seems almost otherworldly indeed. When you see videos of people getting killed - beaten to death, stabbed, or shot - there's a shocking amount of disbelief from bystanders a good portion of the time.
All Ian had to do is say that the first hand experience of two first world countries engaging in warfare is way more important than what the authors views on Jews and coons may be. I mean shit, where his fanbase expecting liberals to be down to go fight in a bloody civil war?
What I don't understand is the logic that Nazis are so bad that you can't talk about them. If they're terrible, won't their actions prove it? It's irritating (on purpose).
