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CDP tweets trash tweet about trans people AGAIN this time from GOG (Read OP)
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Not surprised considering Poland is a right-wing cesspool of a country where Neo-Nazis can walk free. Poland is also, the most religious country in Europe for ages 16-29.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...christian-europe-young-people-survey-religion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...christian-europe-young-people-survey-religion
Yeah it really did. It will be harder to defend this for those in their corner
I mean why would you even present yourself like this?
Who does this? You want to maximize profits, you want to appeal to everyone
Who finds this funny?
Who does this? You want to maximize profits, you want to appeal to everyone
Who finds this funny?
Once again CDPR trashing trans people in order to promote their game.
I can't wait for the "oh we just didn't know!" excuse to pop up again.
But hey, I know how this goes. People will be upset by it, and then all the people excited for Cyberpunk will come along and decide that defending transphobia is a productive use of their time. The same couple dozen of posters will try and keep sanity alive but there'll just be an endless stream of new posters following the exact same formula of "politely" asking why we should treat trans people with basic human respect like it isn't obvious.
I'm so goddamn tired of this. There'll be some half hearted apology in six hours and that'll be it. People will stop talking about it and it may as well have not happened. Then in two months they'll spout off another round of bigotry and the cycle will start again.
This isn't just a single guy. Either this is multiple people from the company across an extended period of time, or this is a single person who's company still sees fit to allow them to represent them.
I can't wait for the "oh we just didn't know!" excuse to pop up again.
But hey, I know how this goes. People will be upset by it, and then all the people excited for Cyberpunk will come along and decide that defending transphobia is a productive use of their time. The same couple dozen of posters will try and keep sanity alive but there'll just be an endless stream of new posters following the exact same formula of "politely" asking why we should treat trans people with basic human respect like it isn't obvious.
I'm so goddamn tired of this. There'll be some half hearted apology in six hours and that'll be it. People will stop talking about it and it may as well have not happened. Then in two months they'll spout off another round of bigotry and the cycle will start again.
This isn't just a single guy. Either this is multiple people from the company across an extended period of time, or this is a single person who's company still sees fit to allow them to represent them.
By using the hashtag to literally sling video games. If I used the Sandy Hook Massacre to promote the sale of chewing gum, that wouldn't exactly be treating that event or the people involved with the gravity deserved.
There! How great is that, you answered your own question, except that you should remove the "just" and replace "dumb" with "intentionally demeaning".
I'm not one to usually jump quickly on an anger mob. Usually I try to understand the situation as best as I can before jumping on the attack.
But at this point CDPR has shown a disturbing consistency around these topics and its clear at this point there is something intentional going on. I'm sure not everyone who works at the studio has these fucked up stances but you dont just "make a mistake" this many times.
CDPR needs to clean their shit up.
But at this point CDPR has shown a disturbing consistency around these topics and its clear at this point there is something intentional going on. I'm sure not everyone who works at the studio has these fucked up stances but you dont just "make a mistake" this many times.
CDPR needs to clean their shit up.
You don't see a problem when a company exploits a hastag about a very serious issue for a marginalized group of people for promotion?
Yea, it's a thoroughly tasteless joke that undermines the credibility of the said hash tag being used expressly used for purposes of this serious transgender issue.
Yeah, I don't care about how excited I was when Cyberpunk's trailer dropped, I'm not giving one cent to a bunch of regressive asswipes.
So instead of continuing to research, read up, and try to understand, you immediately begin waving away the shitty behavior when you yourself know that you don't understand the context? Why? That doesn't make sense
To the people on the defense, it's okay guys, enjoy Cyberpunk & Witcher, I mean why should you care? Doesn't affect you right?
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All the same hits we had in the "Did you assume their gender" tweet's thread
fucking trash. when it keeps happening again ans again and again it can't be a mistake. this is just how they are.
at this point i have a very low opinion of people who choose to explicitly declare their support for them
at this point i have a very low opinion of people who choose to explicitly declare their support for them
All big gaming sites would write tons of articles about it if it was another publisher but this is the second time they did it now i hope they will face the backlash for it.
The last sentence tells us that they know exactly what they're referencing. There's no defending this.
Ok but what if that company makes video games that I enjoy?
I don't think you're seeing the bigger picture of how only things that matter to me actually matter. I need to make sure that people who aren't as important as video games know exactly where they stand.
this. it's cool that yall are some excited for some video game, but just know what you're supporting.
Last time I checked nazis could walk free in the USA and a fascist is a president there, is it also a right-wing cesspool of a country? What about post-Brexit Britain?
Btw, the Law and Justice party just lost the local elections in each of the 18 major Polish cities.
Anybody who thinks this is "tone deaf" is just trying to handwave CDPR's transphobia away and that makes you no better than them and you might as well be transphobic yourself if you can't see that three times in such a short period of time is a god damn pattern.
If they didn't know they wouldn't have use the hashtag. People just don't coincidentally come up with it. This is like the last t8me with CDProjekt's twitter account. You just don't accidentally say some of these things.
They're deliberately mocking and trivializing trans people's concern about their future wellbeing. That this is not the first time they've mocked trans people on Twitter makes it more than clear that they know exactly what they're doing. At the very least, the people running their social media are transphobes. That this has happened on multiple occasions starts to implicate more people, I believe.
Uh, yes. The USA has been a right wing cesspool for a very long time.
This pattern of behavior pretty much makes it very likely that whoever is running that account has some questionable beliefs at the very least. Can't say that I'm pleased to see this stuff. I'm not sure how much of this is condoned by CDPR but at the very least it doesn't paint a pretty picture.
We need to have a "CDPR tweet apologist" bingo board ready for when this inevitably happens for the 4th time
It's pretty fucking offensive to trans people when thier reaction to "trans people might get erased from the legal system" is:
"You know who doesn't get erased? VIDEO GAMES!!!".
Yes. Both of those countries are also cesspools. But we are talking about Poland, where CDPR and GOG is based.
It's happening too often to be defensible. Even if they've all been genuine mistakes it's still a real bad look that they haven't learned their lesson yet to look up the things they're referencing.
Not to rock the boat, but reality check: most the people making CDPR games or running GOG likely consider LGBT stuff "unnatural" and "wrong". That's just how Poland is. I don't think I'm being unfair either: https://www.equaldex.com/region/poland If I recall correctly, homosexuality was considered a disease until the 90s, and it's still not illegal to gay bash or do things like that.
If it wasn't "a bad look", I highly doubt CDPR would give two fucks about LGBT rights. It definitely seems like Western publisher pressures and government grants are the only reason they try to look "open-minded".
If it wasn't "a bad look", I highly doubt CDPR would give two fucks about LGBT rights. It definitely seems like Western publisher pressures and government grants are the only reason they try to look "open-minded".
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