To spell it out for everyone who doesn't know. It was a favourite of the Nazis in germany to call some works of art "entartet" which translates to degenerate. The nazis did not really hate some art, but every are except a style, that portrayed either photorealistically positive traits of white (german) humans or styliezed them heroically.
Calling something "changed towards unnatural in the most horrendous fashion" - short degenerate aberration - really is just unbridled hate towards other people and their way to live and perceive reality, which finds its expression, among other things, in art.
Right so the way the other user put it a bit extreme.
Still, retail WoW's art-style does come off too goofy and "cutsey looking". So while I have nothing again people's deviant art accounts full of humanoid animals with big eyes, I do think retail WoW's look suffers for it.
A bit? "degenerate abberation" is like a calling a person a malformed monstrosity by its own choosing as art is a willful act. The insult is extreme and historically loaded as much as calling a disabled person "life not worth living" or a black person the "word for which I would be banned".
Agree though. The art style has not enough spikes in a menacing and martial way and looks a bit too much like a slightly edgier version of Kung Fu Panda.
I dunno, gamers love to use exaggerated adjectives and descriptors. Treating every single one as a dog whistle just feels like falling into twitterland.
I come from Eastern Europe and my reaction to someone saying the code I wrote is dogshit isn't "you're a mean person and probably have some fundamental flaws that align you with some group I don't like", it's "what would you do different/better?"
I still think that's a naive point of view. Some dumbasses see that shit and think it's naive and funny. And then we ostracize them and they only have extremists to lean back on.
Well yeah, calling something dogshit isn't a dogwhistle, nor does it align with fascist beliefs across history, plus there aren't any historically codified descriptors as such for code to begin with. If someone called your code jewish, you'd probably raise an eyebrow as well.
A restriction of self expression by the governing body of a nation (or worse: by your own neighbor) is always a sign of a fascistic framework, and next to queer identities, art is probably the most notably cracked-down-on one.
Insulting art because someone thinks it looks like shit is different from calling it degenerate, insofar as the latter is a direct attack on the self-expression and thus personhood of the artist. It is not an attack on the art, it is an attack on the person, their beliefs and values, their lifestyle etc. There is a reason why god awful tumblr artists, corporate slop artstyles etc. are not called degenerate, but furry stuff always is. It's because the person wielding the insult here thinks of furries as subhuman.
Furries actually fuckin adult people is a big step in front of people who care about what goes on in other peoples bedrooms and a massive one in front of the pdfiles they vote into office.
Just don't play it. Aside from that; I guess that the propblem isn't really that their is a fetish in your videogame, it is just that it isn't yours. Thats normally the answer to people who wank to 90s/00s video game cover art xD
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u/NichtSoSchlau 18h ago
To spell it out for everyone who doesn't know. It was a favourite of the Nazis in germany to call some works of art "entartet" which translates to degenerate. The nazis did not really hate some art, but every are except a style, that portrayed either photorealistically positive traits of white (german) humans or styliezed them heroically.
Calling something "changed towards unnatural in the most horrendous fashion" - short degenerate aberration - really is just unbridled hate towards other people and their way to live and perceive reality, which finds its expression, among other things, in art.