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@macha said in Good Music:
@aria I don't go to events anymore or anything, but I do remember that one couple that their clothes when they took the crown had actual SWASTIKAS on the fabric. Holy dramabomb (and rightly so)
They stepped down and left their Kingdom in the hands of what was effectively a regent shortly thereafter. They tried the public non-apology apology first and it didn't work out.
Now, to be 'fair', the piece being referenced was a bit of woven trim based on an actual historical pattern accurate to the time period of their clothes/persona, all of which long predates the Nazi party, and is complex enough that it takes of weaver of demonstrable skill to make it. That said, YOU STILL DON'T WEAR THAT SHIT, let alone when representing the populace. The SCA even has pretty explicit rules against offensiveness and obtrusive modernity in both names and arms that the College of Heralds pretty heavily regulates, to the point that I've seen a local Baron -- who had no idea that part of his name that he'd been using for twenty years -- could be connected to a relatively obscure group associated with the IRA. I didn't either, until another Herald from Ireland pointed it out. That name was quickly shot down with profuse apologies from the user, who literally had no idea and meant no harm, and edited to a degree that it was similar enough to what he'd been using without crossing that line. Even then, he cleared it with that same herald just to be sure and was generally mortified about causing entirely unintentional, even potential, offense.
That couple very much should've known better, and probably did know better, and my guess is that they were testing how far they could push things despite the weaver having been warned many times that making the trim was a bad idea. To the point that general usage of that trim in the past in skill competitions has been a gentleman's agreement of 'make maybe a snippet of it with the not-swastika part to prove you can do the technique, write about its historical usage, and then swiftly apply said technique to making a not-offensive pattern that you don't have historical reference on but can now submit in competition and everyone gets what you're doing and why'. Or at least that's generally what with do with that pattern in my area, which may not be the case on the other side of the country.
It's really not that hard to not be a massive hateful jerk about it, but people intent on being hateful jerks WILL try to hide behind the shield of "But but history!!!" to cover their tracks when they get called on it. Screw them.
