sick of people with offensive usernames

Does anyone think my username is offensive? Does anyone know who this is named after?

When I first started I had an offensive username. I only changed it after chess.com muted me for swearing in chat, helping me to realize that their inconsistency is unintentional 

The Nazi imagery is offensive ...  In some places, potentially illegal.

National Socialism was and is a pure evil.  So is Marxist-Leninism

Amazes me how so many choose to be offended over crap.  But completely ignore things deserving of being offended over. 

here we have a ben shapirian in it's natural habitat 

im offended 

If you're referring to the symbol of the swastika?  Read up on how it originated. 

Erwin Rommel was a Nazi general who hoped that Hitler would be arrested and removed; he may even have been involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Rommel wrote a book about warfare titled "Infantry Tactics". His ideas are still taught in military college; some American generals still regard him to have been a genius. Rommel was said to be chivalrous and Patton seemed to have romanticized crossing wits with Rommel in the war, as if they were the reincarnations of Alexander the Great and Darius III.

I'm certainly not saying Rommel was all good; he was a complicated and contradictory person. I would argue Rommel to be a historical personage of academic merit rather than a symbol of hate. However, many Americans now regard anyone in history who is not completely hygienic-- even angelic--as a target for irrational execration and an obstacle along the way toward pure political correctness.

Perspective? People who have nothing better to do with their day than complain?

There have been far more complaints, and more lengthy complaints, about the brief and tasteful observation by the original poster than were ever in the original poster's original complaint. So sorry that you're offended that chess.com and its premium members do not share your opinion that obscene content and hate speech, which deliberately violate the terms of use, are part of your "free speech" on a privately owned, family friendly website. So sad. Do you really have nothing better to whine about, "snowflakes", than the fact that a few basic rules are being enforced on chess.com--and will continue to be enforced whether you like it or not?

German criminal code section 86a.  How the swastika originated is of no importance; it's symbolism in the context of Nazi philosophy is.

As George Carlin said:  "I leave symbols to the symbol minded."

DOGECOIN

Carlin was a superb comedian, but I don't recall him doing genocide jokes.

My point is that the swastika is a symbol.  And focusing on one thing that has nothing to do with its origins does it a disservice.

Focus on the positive and quit focusing on the negative. 

What about offensive pfps?

It is not illegal in the United States, where I am from, but this is an international website. Also National Socialism and Marxist-Leninism are not pure evil. They both try to better their economy, which is good. The way that they do this is, in my opinion, terrible. Evil can be seen as a way to get good through ways that aren't good.

Erwin Rommel was a brilliant man, a better than first class soldier.

Probably the best tank general in history.

Captured hundreds of thousands of people in WW1, went on to do the same in WW2.

I've never seen a credible source even try to state he was a Nazi.

Fighting for the wrong side, but a professional soldier, widely respected by his men and the opposition.

If Germany had more Generals like Rommel, the war would have been much longer, and harder to win. It is also very likely there would have been no Holocaust. At the very least, professionals would recognize the stupidity of killing off a part of your own potential fighting force.

Rommel was respected by both his colleagues and his enemies.

So I suppose that I am okay keeping this username, with this many positive responses. I am actually surprised that this many people know something about Rommel. There have been more positive remarks about him than negative ones. And thank you to the people who are defending him; I thought I had to do it myself but others have been doing it for me.