Any mistaken association with the Golden Dawn would be enough to make a LOT of enemies, most of my friends included. I've met people from Greece who have fought in street battles against the Golden Dawn at considerable risk of personal harm, even death. I have marched against the Golden Dawn myself in a Washington DC solidarity protest.
In addition, Ubuntu as a whole has had a prior problem with symbol misinterpretation. The 3 person circle of friends was do doubt drawn up without knowledge that the KKK in the United States sometimes uses a circle divided into quarters, with 8 dots representing eyes in the heads of 4 hooded Klansmen looking down a manhole at someone they have just murdered. I've seen the KKK symbol done with 3 heads instead of 3 as well, even just as three of their murderous hoods looking down the hole. The Ubuntu symbol is enough different (heads on outside) that serious trouble was averted, but it is something I have heard discussed by fellow activists, mostly Ubuntu users themselves but one on FreeBSD. A second and new controversy of this type could be extremely destructive, especially if the South Africa connection was thus thought to be to the Boer history there. Interestingly, an early, superseded Golden Dawn symbol looked not only like a swastika, but also like the above-mentioned KKK "circle of murderers." That one appeared on their first magazine cover in 1980. No part of the Ubuntu ecosystem will benefit from a new use, accidental or otherwise, of any symbol or image that can be mistaken as or modified into a symbol of the racist far right. On 09/18/2013 at 9:09 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 14:20 +0200, Zak wrote: >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-art/ubuntustudio- >resources/art/view/head:/ubuntu-studio_1310_RC2_wallpaper_01_a_- >_by_madeinkobaia.png > >I would remove the barcode, it's disgusting, smells like >capitalism. >Take care that the covered letters can't be misinterpreted when >taking a >brief look, in this case e.g. with the sign of the "Golden Dawn", >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(Greece) and other >possible >variations of the swastika. > >Apart from this I like it. > >2 Cents, >Ralf > > > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
