I'm all for a good-natured barb here and there, but IMHO Dr. Gu+¦mundsson, the head E.v.e. economist (or whoever made his powerpoint section) went too far this year:

http://i.imgur.com/FvnAnd7.jpg

The section in question involved the discussion of a transaction tax meant to curb what is seen as an increasing wealth disparity in EVE (which I admit is very much a growing issue); while not outright mentioning them by name, the good Dr. very clearly hinted at the presence of the so-called "Jewbal" which colludes to accumulate wealth for themselves and the "Goonswarm" alliance. One can very easily see the parallel between the name this group gave themselves in good humor (they're mostly Jewish in real life, if I recall correctly) and the racial caricature of a Jewish man used in the powerpoint presentation today; I personally have to take real issue with the demonizing of an entire IRL religio-cultural group for the sake of some cheap laughs (to the E.v.e. community's credit, none were had that I noticed while watching the stream).

Luckily CCP Anal took over the talk before any other tragic guffaws were made...

Stereotyping is bad mmkay.

No it isn't. If it's accurate it's accurate. People need to get over it TBH.

i'm sorry, what's the issue here?

i'm sorry, what's the issue here?

I'm all for a good-natured barb here and there, but IMHO Dr. Gu+¦mundsson, the head E.v.e. economist (or whoever made his powerpoint section) went too far this year:

http://i.imgur.com/FvnAnd7.jpg

The section in question involved the discussion of a transaction tax meant to curb what is seen as an increasing wealth disparity in EVE (which I admit is very much a growing issue); while not outright mentioning them by name, the good Dr. very clearly hinted at the presence of the so-called "Jewbal" which colludes to accumulate wealth for themselves and the "Goonswarm" alliance. One can very easily see the parallel between the name this group gave themselves in good humor (they're mostly Jewish in real life, if I recall correctly) and the racial caricature of a Jewish man used in the powerpoint presentation today; I personally have to take real issue with the demonizing of an entire IRL religio-cultural group for the sake of some cheap laughs (to the E.v.e. community's credit, none were had that I noticed while watching the stream).

Luckily CCP Anal took over the talk before any other tragic guffaws were made...

Please tell us about GSF Cloud Ring fights with Ev0ke or how GSF has poses with hardeners set up as swastikas. Post logs from local spam. I am sure GSF will be a beacon of light in these dark days or people will just laugh at you for being a complete tool and trying to be ~edgy~.

The graphic of the Jew which was pretty much the image the National Socialists (WW2 Germany) drew on their propaganda posters.

It's like if CCP showed a picture of a white actor wearing "black face".

And if you don't know what that is you should google it.

That picture has been overused to the point it has become a caricature of itself.

Racism is never okay.

I'm all for a good-natured barb here and there, but IMHO Dr. Gu+¦mundsson, the head E.v.e. economist (or whoever made his powerpoint section) went too far this year:

http://i.imgur.com/FvnAnd7.jpg

The section in question involved the discussion of a transaction tax meant to curb what is seen as an increasing wealth disparity in EVE (which I admit is very much a growing issue); while not outright mentioning them by name, the good Dr. very clearly hinted at the presence of the so-called "Jewbal" which colludes to accumulate wealth for themselves and the "Goonswarm" alliance. One can very easily see the parallel between the name this group gave themselves in good humor (they're mostly Jewish in real life, if I recall correctly) and the racial caricature of a Jewish man used in the powerpoint presentation today; I personally have to take real issue with the demonizing of an entire IRL religio-cultural group for the sake of some cheap laughs (to the E.v.e. community's credit, none were had that I noticed while watching the stream).

Luckily CCP Anal took over the talk before any other tragic guffaws were made...

Who cares? Jews are not immune from having the p*ss taken out of them just because some of them were murdered.

yeah... still not seeing the issue?

Also to the guy who said "people need to get over it." lol wut?

Get over a Holocaust that was just over 60 years ago, and was propagated by images just like this and started out as just general stereotypes just like this?? yeah? You think it's just as easy as that bro??? Bro??? Clearly you have/had no one involved.....Grow up you in-sensitive, apathetic, twerp....

Crikey thats bad. Fanfest always seems to have some sort of controversy, and you can't get much more racist than that, being that its a specific racial caricature. That term, which i won't personally use, certainly seems to get thrown around alot by EvE morons.

I guess i'll go make some popcorn and what for this to blow up!

*sigh*

People have killed people throughout history. The Vikings, the Romans, the Syrians, the Turks, more recently the Bosnians & Serbs etc. etc. etc.

Jews are not unique. Stop going on as though you are because it's boring quite frankly. Yes, it was tragic, but don't think that gives you the right to use that tragedy as a stick to beat the rest of the World with.