Salute, everyone.
It has come to our attention that, once again, we are faced with several allegations about ourselves, moreso, about the tactics we wrote and used throughout the battles during this period of war and the words expressed by our advisor, Guta. This is going to be a brief post as the post against us was brief and only hardly touched on us.
We acknowledge that the post is not a direct attack to the Elite Guardians, however, it has a clear intention to use as a spearhead for their issues against the Club Penguin Armies organization. Upon reading their post, the ideas that they had were quite right, and we do support the notion of addressing hypocrisy; even if it is referring to incidents surrounding us. Nevertheless, while we support taking up the administration in cases of hypocrisy, we cannot let the accusing tone of the PIC post go without addressing properly.
Without further ado, let's get straight to the point. The topics of this rebutall will be featured here:
- Tactics about lynching
- Guta's ''axis of evil'' remark
- Conclusion
1.
Before diving further, let's first analyze the textbook definition for the word ''lynching''.
As you can see, it is clear why the mention of this word in our tactics is clear. For a few months now, and specifically during December when several posts were released against us, we felt that they were reaching and were deliberately made to attack us defame us in an opportunistic attempt to bring us down. In response, we made use of tactics using the word "lynching", specifically by it's textbook definition. However, when reading the post, they mention how our tactics were seen as offensive, as the term "lynching" can have connotations regarding unlawful hangings of African Americans and anti-Slavery politicians in America, as well as during their respective Civil Rights Movement.
At first we found this as a form of reaching once again, but we did stop to realize how absurd it may look. Specifically one instance, where we said "are you going to lynch us again" as a tactic, looks the worse. To imply that we were actively trying to use insensitive terms and phrases is understandable, but that was not the intent at all. Inside of Brazil, the term "lynching" does not have the same connotations as it does in America, and while we have been trying to adjust ourselves and moderate our chats and actions better in attempt to understand the international culture, this completely slipped us as the term "lynching" is commonly used in Brazil as a means of identifying mob criticism.
With all of that said, it is important to note that we mostly made use of the term "virtual lynching", which can be seen in 10 out of the 13 messages of "lynching" tactics in our server. Indeed, this is a real term inside of Brazil used by our very own Congress, and the term "virtual lynching" is very similar to the term "cancel culture", which was what we were trying to get at.
- Brazilian congress voting on a law project to criminalize the virtual lynching
2.
Now then, the addressing and explanation behind the ''axis of evil'', present in Consul Guta's speech, shall be given to our reader. The stir was caused, again, by the misinterpretation of the words, mainly influenced by the allegation of last month.
There is honestly not a whole lot to address regarding this all. The term "axis of evil" was never intended in reference to George Bush and his usage of the term (although he did understand the history of it and did realize that re-wording it could fit his intentions). Guta just used the term to refer to the United Front Alliance as an "alliance of evil", which is quite literally what the axis of evil means. But, we do understand why there was confusion, although it was not Guta's intention.
3.
We have been making a genuine attempt at trying to adjust ourselves while retaining our culture, and the constant bashing and defamation of our army is not going to help us at all. We don't need to be attacked every time we get something wrong, we want to learn to do things so that we don't unintentionally offend other cultures. We would have appreciated if PIC had reached out to us directly with their issues instead of pursuing this course of action. But, we do recognise that PIC did indeed uncover an instance of double standards inside of the CP Armies organization, and that is the honest truth.
While we did find the reasonings behind their post to be justifiable (its never okay to promote hypocrisy, especially at this degree), we simply cannot allow our army to be further defamed. We have been making a genuine attempt at trying to adjust ourselves while retaining our culture, and the constant bashing and defamation of our army is not going to help us at all.
I really hope that you all can at least open your eyes just for one second to at least try to gain some understanding of how much our culture differs from yours, and try to learn to be more patient with us in the future. We are trying to do better but it is difficult to do that when we are constantly being defamed. Also, try to release posts not at two hours past midnight, eh?
~ Lass, EGCP Leader