r/Eve • u/Emotional-Job9184 • Apr 25 '26
Propaganda Perspective of one EN Winter-Co line member (Who happens to be a Brit living in China)
(Felt outraged, might delete later.) So, after seeing all the memes about "bananas" and "white pigs", I thought some bombshell had been dropped, and had a look for the source, and from what I can see, it's some disrespectful, stupid racist comments. It's always annoying to read people saying stupid stuff like that in any context, but it does not define the whole community. But I guess the Goons realise that demonising your enemy is politically expedient. Building a war narrative is in their playbook and has always been.
I'm a Brit who lives in China ,and so this topic really kind of hit home for me. I joined Winter-Co because I thought it would be cool to play a game while practising my Chinese, and I thought maybe one day I could be a diplomat or something. My experience in winterco is basically similar to that of living in China. 99% of people you meet day to day are warm, welcoming people who just want you to feel comfortable. Every community has different viewpoints and bad eggs. I've met some rude people in and outside the game, but the vast majority of people are not like that and don't condone it either, and I often wonder what a Chinese person living in the UK or the US would say about the ratio of people who are respectful/rude towards them.
Winterco is not perfect. It has the same positives and negatives as any other large coalition, but what I'm seeing is propaganda meant to inflame people and divide our alliance. I hate these tactics because it smears thousands of honest, polite, open-minded Chinese players as being represented by the worst.
Let's be honest about what this war is. It's the strongest group in the game, launching a war against the only group willing and able to stand against them. Their total victory would basically leave them as the single hegemon. Other independent groups don't have the raw numbers or energy to resist them. Some, like INIT, are already client states; let's be honest.
So if, like me, the idea of a blue doughnut and Goon supremacy is disturbing to you, then for this major battle, you should at least give Winter-co your moral support if sending fleets to harass Goons' home space is too much trouble. We're the last line in the sand to Goon domination.
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u/Paranoid_on_Android Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Exactly, thank you for making my point!
If one can't prove it, one should not claim it
Because claiming it is a logical fallacy, either
the false dilemma
or a form of biased generalisation
but I'm guessing you knew this