Jebslund wrote:Highever wrote:Well as nation flags they are, but in RP context and such they're not.
No, actually, they aren't.
To quote Violet:An example is the use of a swastika as a national flag. The swastika isn't specifically banned on NationStates, because we don't ban particular references or arrangements of pixels. But since it is widely seen to symbolize specific real-life events--in particular, the Holocaust--it is usually unacceptable, as an endorsement of violence against real-life people. (This is regardless of how it's intended: We don't try to peer into minds to judge intent, only how it appears.)
So my question is how is the flag of a terrorist organization not an endorsement of violence against real-life people, at least as much as a flag celebrating nazis?