Robert Evans

Nazi ideas have no place in our group because they are contrary to everything we stand for.

The organizer said that the player said he would not leave unless they involved the police.

As displaying Nazi imagery is not illegal in Spain, the organizers hesitated lest this bring legal trouble upon their club.

And I don't know enough about the situation to know, like, were these guys really just backed into a completely fucked corner and having a lot of options?

Should that probably I'm going to guess they could have and should have done more.

But I don't really know much about that.

What I do know is that this causes a lot of people to get pissed off online.

And it blows up enough that Games Workshop has to publish an announcement on November 19th, 2021.

The Imperium is driven by hate.

Warhammer is not.

And in this announcement, there's a couple of interesting lines.

First off, they're pointing out that, like, look, the Imperium of Man is a cautionary table, like so many aspects of Warhammer 40,000.

It is satirical.

They go through the definition of what satire is, right?

Like, that's literally in this little article that they put up.

And then they note that said certain real world hate groups and adherence to historical ideologies better left in the past sometimes seek to claim intellectual properties for their own enjoyment and co-opt them for their own agendas.

We've said it before, but a reminder about what we believe in.

We believe in and support a community united by shared values of mutual kindness and respect.

Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be.

We will never accept nor condone any form of prejudice, hatred or abuse in our company or in the Warhammer hobby.