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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8623019" data-attributes="member: 30438">While I certainly think they made the wrong call with that, I can at least understand how they came to it. You have to think, these are people that believe(d) passionately in MAR Barker's world of Tekumel. To have found out that he was a total Nazi would've likely shaken them to their core, would've done real damage to their psyches. Admitting that to the world then and there would've been hard.Ultimately, when faced with a hard decision, they still made the wrong decision. These days, it might be easier, when faced with a real and horrid resurgence of all this, but ultimately when it mattered back then, they chose silence.I was talking with a friend of mine that these days, the rot of fascism/racism is everywhere. You could be talking about anything - The legacy of The Assassins Knot, why Bauhaus broke up the first time, Austin Osman Spare's techniques, or heck, which type of knitting needles are best, and then the next thing you know the person you've been talking to will start spouting horrible racist garbage.Which is why that rot needs to be excised, given zero chance to root, wherever it is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8623019, member: 30438"] While I certainly think they made the wrong call with that, I can at least understand how they came to it. You have to think, these are people that believe(d) passionately in MAR Barker's world of Tekumel. To have found out that he was a total Nazi would've likely shaken them to their core, would've done real damage to their psyches. Admitting that to the world then and there would've been hard. Ultimately, when faced with a hard decision, they still made the wrong decision. These days, it might be easier, when faced with a real and horrid resurgence of [I]all this[/I], but ultimately when it mattered back then, they chose silence. I was talking with a friend of mine that these days, the rot of fascism/racism is everywhere. You could be talking about anything - The legacy of The Assassins Knot, why Bauhaus broke up the first time, Austin Osman Spare's techniques, or heck, which type of knitting needles are best, and then the next thing you know the person you've been talking to will start spouting horrible racist garbage. Which is why that rot needs to be excised, given zero chance to root, wherever it is. [/QUOTE]

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