First, i was making fun of Activision by giving-in to the external pressure by censuring their own trailer. I have no wish to make fun of leftists, because im living in a country that is being destroyed for over 50 years by them, i dont think they are something to laugh at.
When i said "i liked that activision did this" i meant that they included Yuri in the trailer.
That was very clear. However, what should have been clear to you is that citing a figure like Bezmenov, whose work while in the US was based on portraying movements that called for more equality, for equal rights, as basically illegitimate and just thinly veiled attempts to undermine the US is somewhat questionable in the first place. The underlying assumption Bezmenov took was that the US in the 1980s was a fundamentally equal and fair society and that protests against racism, or a fight against the discrimination of LGBTQ people were at their core just propaganda; By citing him in a trailer for a video game slated to be released very soon, Activision implicitly positioned his speech there, and the ideas that come with it, as commentary on what is happening in the world today.
Now, the thing about what Bezmenov said is that he's incredibly wrong: His (and, assuming he was relaying true information, the soviet's) theory of cultural change was that the best way to achieve it was by slowly building pressures over decades until suddenly repression happens; if you can tell me how to distinguish movements like that that were actively instigated by a hostile agent from movements like that that just build consensus over time (i.e. the normal way in which our cultures develop), please do enlighten me.
Second, i had already dropped the subject yesterday, today i would have not said anything if not for your little "they are idiots", that is by far, worse than anything i said.
Third, what Yuri said was well over 35 years ago, there is no way it meant the current groups, you are making that conection and is wrong to asume that, what is important is the methods that he described that i think are being used today(by diferent groups not by the soviet union!!!). Silence dissident voices is one of them, you did just that, thats really not a good move when you are trying to prove someone else wrong. The example i wanted to give was very small and in not way a bad thing, but you did a lot better.
Activision made that connection (the trailer implicitly connected protests against the Vietnam war with Bezmenov's talk about soviet propaganda; this is so on the nose that it's kinda hard to miss), not me.
Point being: Bezmenov was a propagandist who tried to deligitimize civil rights movements in the US. By posting this
now, during a time when the civil rights discussion has flared up again in response to a US government that is veering ever harder into autocracy and tyranny, Activision (and, by your endorsement of Bezmenov and his theories in regards to modern movements, you) are engaging in an effort to dismiss criticism of the current state of affairs as misguided and wrong.
That is why you were kicked. Because you were trying to be flippant and dismissive about something that is far too serious. Because you seemingly did not do the homework on Bezmenov. Because you were seemingly ignorant about the online discourse surrounding that trailer, which features quite a number of far-right figures praising Activision for its brave stance in furthering fascism.
Fourth, i dont understand the point of kicking someone off the server whiout banning. And to be honest i only written this to give you one chance to apologize because i did nothing wrong, i did not attacked, insulted or disrespected anyone.
Your original post was an announcement that you were leaving, not an invitation to a discussion.
Secondly, as I tried to point out in my posts in this thread, you actually were insulting groups and, by extension, their supporters by claiming that their causes were and are fundamentally illegitimate. I felt that was reason enough to give you a kick; you are, of course, free to disagree.
