It has come to light that the original logo in 2004 was a Koffing with a Swastika instead of the normal crossbones thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPG6vIN8Kx8
Video by cecilily - We need to talk about the Nazi past of Smogon
This is so outrageous it seems fake, but they adressed it last year and decided not to change the name which is peak 
I don't think it's white liberal nonsense to rename your site from a Nazi dogwhistle to literally anything else, it'd actually own up to the sites past instead of just brushing it under the rug and letting people unwittingly spread a horrible thing. The performative nonsense is having a Jewish (TM) person say that the Nazi dogwhistle is not bad actually and that we have all changed, which is exactly what happened.
That's literally what they did by not changing the name but doing an acknowledgement from one of the Jewish community leaders.