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do you think that D&D is a front for demon worship?

I do find myself saying the word "daemon" way more than I did as a kid.

I did not see Hitler in the icon either. I feel like people are just looking reasons to be offended somehow.

People were mocking Amazon. Not offended.

Make your icon a random blot and some people will imagine Hitler in that too. It's a packing box with tape on the top, something Amazon is widely known for.

But it's got that weird "smile" on it, which any way you slice it is incongruous.

You know who else had a similar mustache? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/OrwellB...

But that was in the mid-1920s. Obviously it was fashionable at one point, in some circles, and once it was associated with Hitler, people stopped wearing it.

There is a distinction between saying "something associated with something bad is aesthetically displeasing or embarrassing" and saying "something associated with something bad is a terrible crime". The former is not a moral panic.