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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8464455" data-attributes="member: 5948">This symbol is the yoke and arrows, which was the symbol of the Falange party/movement in the 1930s and of the Francoist regime afterwards.  While Franco was certainly fascist-adjacent to say the least, there's probably a whole lot of Spanish historical and cultural context I'm unaware of there.  But in the context of an outright neo-Nazi calling himself 'Austrian painter' wearing it next to swastikas ... suffice to say I doubt he was really wearing it out of a deep and enduring passion for the role of the Roman Catholic Church or the Catholic-endorsed monarchy in everyday Spanish political life. As for GW's statement ... well, I'm glad they made it, but GW has been contradicting themselves regularly over this for many years.  The lore, as others have said, has many dodgy cultural assumptions built up over the decades that are just in the process of starting to be addressed or unwound, (I still reckon they should have bitten the bullet and used the whole Primaris thing to canonicise female Astartes - if you're going to turn the lore upsidedown, do it HARD!) but the bigger issue is the chasm in quality and sophistication between the writing in the book line and the game line.  The novels (or at least those written by the better authors - Abnett, Wraight, Dembki-Bowden, French and the like) make no bones about how awful the Imperium is.  But then you come to the stuff in the game books or the advertising copy for miniatures and it's all HEROIC ULTRAMARINES DEFENDING HUMANITY without a trace of satire or self-awareness or acknowledgement of the nastier aspects of Space Marine-dom at all.  This rod really is one that GW forged for their own back, and they continue to do so.</blockquote>

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