Agreed.I think we Should update the site to have Free Hong Kong Banner on the Site to show solidarity with people who are being silenced by Corporations more interested in making China happy than Human Rights.
Agreed.I think we Should update the site to have Free Hong Kong Banner on the Site to show solidarity with people who are being silenced by Corporations more interested in making China happy than Human Rights.
Has Kripparian or any big HS streamer commented on this at all?
Has Kripparian or any big HS streamer commented on this at all?
Thijs took a stance, except it was the wrong one where anything related to the situation that is said in chat is bannable in his twitch channel.
Thank you very much, I am preparing to attend another protest tonight because yet another private property security guard was prosecuted, simply because he didn't open the gate when the police (with no shoulder identity number, obviously) wants to enter the property for search... without proper warrent from the court.
In case we fail at the end, please remember us for what we have done to resist oppression from PRC.
Only now I understand that freedom, has a price.
Hey, not op but I would like you to know that your message... Brought tears to my eyes. Really. Heck, the other day I saw someone cosplaying as Doraemon cheering people up and I started crying like a baby. Never knew I was that emotional, huh.
The last 4 months had been rough, and no one knows how things will end. There's been many anger, hopelessness, fear, sadness, and many tiring days and sleepless nights. So messages like this really mean a lot to us.
Again, thank you and everyone who has been supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
Edit : Found the Doraemon I was talking about!
https://m.facebook.com/standnewshk/photos/a.720050934747196/2501842839901321/?
It's always funny to see China whataboutists point the finger at US intervention and cry orientalism when active western solidarity is explicitly what many Hong Kong democrats are lobbying for on the international stage, alongside US/British/etc. citizens from the diaspora who fled Chinese tyranny and are expressly, democratically pressuring their own representatives at home. Ooh, scary US imperialism! Ooh, scary British colonial nostalgia! Come off it, you fools. Chinese control over the past twenty years has been far more interventionist and oppressive of the local culture than either of those have ever been.
Hong Kong is a beacon of civic nationalism where an affinity with the west over values, fairness, and governance trumps an affinity with the narrow Han ethno-nationalist vision of the PRC where they preen their sense of entitlement to the totality of the region's rich, diverse, and vibrant cultural heritage. China would very much like everyone to forget and deny that the British intellectual inheritance that built modern HK, inculcating a belief in due process and a free press, is an inextricable part of the city's history and identity. Bollocks to that. Hong Kong expresses western liberal ideals better than the west itself, and the west should stand with it. We should have the moral conviction to be causing trouble for the PRC. "Western influence = bad" might fly with hegemonic Chinese ethnic nationalists and gullible others with simplistic, one-size-fits-all ideas about colonialism, but Hong Kong democrats see right through that nonsense and know what's up. They know who's the real imperialist in the room.
I've actually been impressed with how little of that argument we've seen here up to this point given some of the fashionable anti-west anti-liberalism we often see around these parts. Instead, I've been heartened to see a more or less unequivocal unity, and not just here on this silly video game forum. Maybe because anybody with an informed look at this understands that the fight for liberty and democracy in HK is not a left/right issue in our narrow local terms, and is in fact a strong reminder of what we, in the west, like to imagine are the ideals we have in common with our political opponents.
Do you know that the US tries to prohibit the BDS movement on Israel over the Palestine conflict? This isn't just China. Is every capitalistic/geopolitical interest of a major power that causes this kind of stuff
Activision too right?All Blizzard games are now on my boycott list. Blizzard would have to do a lot for me to change my mind.
Not yet. They supposedly made a statement to Blizzard employees today though.
Apparently they have disabled all forms of account verification to stop people from deleting their account.
By now it hardly matters what they say. The very fact that they have to think this hard about their statement is damning enough.
And I just got finished downloading this 90gb destiny game.
Welp guess I'm uninstalling.
Yeah unless they are planning to completely reverae course here then what they have to say is meaningless to me.By now it hardly matters what they say. The very fact that they have to think this hard about their statement is damning enough.
This is old. It was a temporary bug and the tweeter was able to delete her account shortly after.
Positioning the "West" as the ideological opponent and peacocking about it is just as much a part of the CCP's playbook.
This language of Western values is precisely the kind of strategy used to position liberal democracy as anathema and incompatible with Chinese people. Whether intentional or not, the characterization of Western superiority is just further fuel to the fire of Chinese nationalism.
Genuine question: is there a way as westerners to criticize the CCP without them finding a way to spin it as western imperialism? Because it seems like in these threads over and over the sentiment is "don't say XYZ because the CCP use it as fuel to their fire." While we should be careful to not want to promote a sense of western nationalism and superiority, we should also recognize the people of Hong Kong very much value their independence and favor liberal democracy and support that. Whether or not it's because of colonialism, we should understand that these are their demands and as people who live in liberal democracies, be sympathetic to their demands and support them. Supporting democratic ideas and societies is good, west or east. It should be considered a universal human value.
The CCP will do what they can to spin it. We should be focused on supporting Hong Kong first and foremost.
I don't disagree with that, but if you look at the comment I'm replying to, it's literally filled with references to virtuous "Western values." They're not treating liberty as a universal human value, they're characterizing it as distinctly Western, and crafting a narrative that has a pretty explicitly prideful bent.
Framing the conversation as a matter of human ethics is exactly what I'm advocating. They're not doing that.
They have said something. It was just only said to China. Blizzard will protect China's dignity. They don't want to address the West because only backpedaling would suffice, and that would make them look bad in the eyes of China if not get them banned by censors.i really cant fuckin believe that they haven't said anything yet
I agree the post comes off strong. I'm just saying anything westerners say in critique of the CCP will be spun by them as being western imperialism imposing their views anyway. I don't think there is a way to avoid that as westerners. But I'll let the person you quoted speak for themselves, assuming they reply to you.
I'm more disappointed in Giantbomb.
On their podcast it felt like non of them really wanted to talk about it and all that was said was some middle of the road bullshit. Basically corporations gonna be corporations.
They didn't come down against Blizzard at all. It felt spineless and kind of pathetic to be honest.
Don t really know what they can say we don't already know.
It's got to be killer for people who make their own living off these games... I wish players like TrumpSC would outright condemn blizz... But I at least understand they live off these games literally.something to the effect of "If people want to unfollow and unsub from streamers playing blizzard games I completely understand and good for you taking that moral stand. I don't agree with what blizzard did but I'm going to keep playing their games, if you unfollow I understand." Paraphrasing Trump there, its not word for word but that was the basic idea anyway.
... Beg pardon? Why should we cover for Blizzard's losses?Also I do wonder if the people clamoring for them to take a stance would be willing to cover blizzard's losses (if they get banned from china) with their own pockets.
I mean, people like that have plenty of money already. Big streamers that is. Smaller/medium ones? eh. But like, Kibler is taking a loss for example, but he will be fine. So would Trump. Once you're well enough off, it's just as immoral to pretend you can't take a stand for the almighty dollar - just like it is for Blizz execs.It's got to be killer for people who make their own living off these games... I wish players like TrumpSC would outright condemn blizz... But I at least understand they live off these games literally.
They don't wanna that people use their post win interviews to make controversial and or political statements...that guy did it fully knowing what was gonna happen and accepted it. Not sure about the casters.
why should they incur in losses to follow your moral code?
lolwhy should they incur in losses to follow your moral code?
it's easy to tell people to do the right thing when we don't have actually anything at stake and just have to ask other people to take the hit for the greater good.
covering for the losses they could have from making an enemy out of the ban happy chinese govt would be a way to spread the consequences more evenly.
i guess i got my asnwer alright, lol
why should they incur in losses to follow your moral code?
it's easy to tell people to do the right thing when we don't have actually anything at stake and just have to ask other people to take the hit for the greater good.
covering for the losses they could have from making an enemy out of the ban happy chinese govt would be a way to spread the consequences more evenly.
I hope you at least are getting nice dividends from your Activision shares if you are going to take this position.why should they incur in losses to follow your moral code?
it's easy to tell people to do the right thing when we don't have actually anything at stake and just have to ask other people to take the hit for the greater good.
covering for the losses they could have from making an enemy out of the ban happy chinese govt would be a way to spread the consequences more evenly.
it's less about thinking of the shareholders, and realizing that it's really easy to tell people to do something when we dont actually have to do nothing ourselves or suffer any consequences at all. we just tell people to do stuff and hit the loss for the greater good, sounds kind of convenientWon't someone please think of the shareholders. We agree though, Blizzard doesn't have a moral code.