The crayon meme is disrespectful to people with mental or learning disabilities.
EDIT: The origin of the supposed "joke" is that Marines are apparently so mentally deficient they would eat crayons.
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Absolutely nothing to do with that about the Marines at all. It was a joke given to them by the Army about how they can’t think for themselves because they follow orders. Yet all military has to follow orders. The word Crayon is not the problem. Uneducated people misinformed about a long standing joke between two military branches is the problem. Tbh I’m offended that this is even an issue.
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작성자: BigWalyWorld_97 4/10/2022 2:49:13 AMYeah no, I actually have mental and learning disabilities ( And I know anyone can say that but I have a form of autism called aspergers.) and you assume that I am at all offended that the crayon meme thinking its really disrespectful and offensive. you don't actually have it and think we feel bad, (which we don't). You need a new game to be playing cause this has been a meme and a joke for years. Also I'm a titan main and your not gonna take my crayons.
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작성자: Anna the Zombie 4/8/2022 3:10:07 PMThen I have to wonder, why did our clan get struck while many other clans still get to keep similar names? Example: https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=4194082 Example 2: https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2/Index?groupId=2540531
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As and ex marine who was recently diagnosed with autism way too late in life and as a trans person who enjoys our colorful jokes with a reference to the oldest running marine joke of we eat crayons, I actually find it extremely disrespectful that we can't even have a crayon reference in our clan. So you're telling me my clan can't even reference our military culture or the colorful fun because some people don't like it? I honestly find this cancel and terf culture toxic. Let us have our freedom of expression it does not harm anyone, if we sat here and debated all day we could find a reason for almost any clan name to be offensive in some manner to some people.
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Was never aware of this, since when has this been an issue? Genuinely curious about it. Our clan was originally a titan only server so we used crayon quite frequently with no malicious intent other than to joke around that “titans eat crayons” hence why the clan has crayon in it! There has never been any intent to make fun of or attack any groups EXPECIALLY those affected by disability’s as we have members who have disabilities such as autism in the center of our clan.
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Sir, as someone with autism, please never -blam!- tell me what to be offended by, because A. That's significantly more offensive than what you think of said joke And B. It's not offensive or derogatory to people on the spectrum.
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작성자: Bruhtheon, Vines conflux 4/9/2022 2:50:13 PMhi, I'm a member of this clan with autism, I have never seen the correlation between crayons and autism, and members of this clan have never made jokes regarding autism, I am speaking from experience. Edit: the joke is still not about mental illness, in the context of marines, it's typically regarded that they hated the taste of their MREs (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) that much that some would eat crayons instead, and Navy/Air Force would often joke to marines over radio transmissions, asking things such as "what's your favourite crayon flavor?"