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SonicFox wins Best eSports Player at The Game Awards: "I'm gay, black, a furry. Pretty much everything a republican hates."
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Nice! I can already hear people typing scripts for another set of "Naughty Dog Agenda" videos.
Oh snap!
He was practically having sex on stage!
You're right my bad, you put it in a way that made me think for sure. Either way, his outfit wasn't the only one that felt out of place to me. Really wish the award show felt a bit more professional.
It doesnt matter when we get to the point where everyone gets treated equally despite their skin color, sex or identity
Clearly we still have a way to go
It's more relevant than thanking your imaginary friends in the sky or thanking your family for supporting you while you make millions.
Even if he wasn't a furry I can't even imagine what a gay black man has to go through in this life, so if he wants to give a shout out to the community that helps him get through it I don't see the problem
"Those things" is really how you want to start this?
He is a victim. He's a victim of a society that hates all three of the things that he is, and actively tries to shut them down.
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It matters to me. Him saying those things reminds people like him - gay people, black people, and furries (though I am in no way, shape, or form saying that being a furry is in any way equivalent to being gay or black— let me just make that clear) - can find success in the gaming industry, even if there are still chalk-white straight cisgender manbaby asshats in it who want them to "stay down / quiet / out of view" and scoff at the idea of representation in gaming for any sort of culture, interest, etc. other than their own.
If you ever watched any award show literally ever, you would know how exceedingly common this is. Dating back decades, award shows are constantly used as a political platform for the folks who are awarded. The Grammys, The Tonys, and the Oscars all have a supremely consistent and extensive history of people receiving awards making political statements about their identities, current events, and industry conditions.
Every single one. For decades. Always.
Only in Gaming, somehow, is this perceived as unusual or out of place. Maybe because there isn't a prestigious award show for games, but I find is really hard to believe that even gamers have never watched a single award show in their lives where both presenters and recipients make clear and personal statements on stage.
Even gamers should have heard of Marlon Brando.
Gamers: Why are people not referring to themselves as gamers?
Also gamers: *this topic, just.... this topic*
Congrats, I am dead.
You've fucking killed me.
My mom now has to bury her child due to this 80th degree burn
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Also gamers: *this topic, just.... this topic*
Congrats, I am dead.
You've fucking killed me.
My mom now has to bury her child due to this 80th degree burn
lol
Here's the problem with that, does it make you any more right than the ones you accuse? If you claim you are better then them by your actions, then you just proved yourself wrong. I don't think that's the look Sonicfox was going for and more importantly, it shuts that door even tighter than it was before by making such a jaded statement.
Not really.
Since I'm not gay or black I can't speak for whatever those groups go through, but bringing light to the fact that he is what he is, also implies that people like him (even if not him in particular, I have no clue about his life history tbh) have to fight through a lot of shit to just be who they are. Having a positive voice, one that openly embraces all of those things, one that managed to rise to very top of whate he chose to do, one that also has a generous heart (that story about his friend's dad with cancer is brilliant) can only bring about good things.
Just because it doesn't have any real impact on people like me or you, doesn't mean it's not needed.
It's a little bit of an overgeneralisation that kinda defeats its own message but imagine getting burned like that by a furry. Won't even need to cremate us, I guess.
Thought he was genuine and brave. Good on him for winning, it's well deserved.
LOL awesome.
LOL awesome.
I had no idea who this guy was, but it was good seeing him there and him just being himself. He felt very genuine in his speech and seems to be a great person. Wish him all the best, that everything republicans hate comment was glorious. Laughed quite a bit at that.
The cycle begins anew. Sod off with the ignorance and read the damned thread. Your hot take is unwelcome.
It does because I don't vote for people who want to destroy my healthcare and imprison children.
I thought his mannerisms on stage were weird, but I don't see why what he said is a big deal at all
Can we just link this thread the next time someone says this forum is a echo chamber of liberals
If you support the Republican party, you support a party based around white supremacy and sexism. You are supporting hate. This is an unarguable fact.
No it's not. The GOP has been running on ignorance, bigotry, fear and escape goating for decades upon decades. They've built their entire party around limiting voting rights and ability to do so, disenfranchising entire groups of people, fighting tooth and nail to stop gay marriage and now that front has failed they're going in on the trans community.
Gimme a fucking break. They elected abe continue to support Donald Fucking Trump.
This is just so wrong.
He is an LGBTQ icon, and everyone in the community is proud as fuck for his win. You would rather see erasure and people stay in the closet, but your time is over honey.
How sheltered must you be to find out about furries in 2018?
Period, point blank.
I know you are already banned but there are plenty of other posters more subtly saying the same thing. Did it ever occur to any of y'all that no one gives a shit about what you think on this subject? Who cares if it doesn't matter to you? It matters to him. The universe doesn't revolve around you, get over yourself and step the fuck aside.
Yeah, that's just not true. Don't throw your opinions as facts. Agree to disagree 👍
if the republican party supports white supremacy...and you support the republican party...then you support white supremacy. there's no opinions here.
Explain how it's not true. Give me details to back up your claim.
We can all point to voting records or the simple unarguable fact that supporting Donald Trump is supporting white supremacy. I need you to explain why that's not true.
You came into the thread to tell us that SonicFox's statement isn't true without explaining why. So explain.
If you have a problem with that statement then work toward changing what the Republican party stands for. Right now, it is unequivocally a party about white supremacy and fascism. Either abandon ship or challenge it. You don't get to pretend like it's nothing by continuing to support it, sorry.
Unfortunately, almost all republican leaders have either shown their true colors or demonstrated to what extent there are complete and utter spineless cowards throughout this regime. Call for better leaders or hide in shame. Don't expect anyone to give you even a modicum of respect for doing nothing and still considering yourself a republican at this moment in history.
Yeah, no. What the world has come to. Pointing fingers and generalizing. I guess you know me better than I know myself. Good stuff.
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This is such a tired thing.
A fursuit isn't fetish gear unless the person wearing it makes it fetish gear. There's a lot of sexuality in the furry fandom, and that is a-okay, but it is not necessarily sexual. There are plenty of people who don't like the sexual aspects at all, plenty of people who are only in it for the sexuality, and a whole lot of people in-between the two. It's no different from any other fandom or community, and there is nothing wrong with any of it.
Repeat after me: simply wearing a fursuit does not make you a kinky exhibitionistic motherfucker.
It gets fucking tiring having to explain this in every thread that relates even remotely to furries. People have this stereotype of a sex-crazed furry stuck in their heads, but it just isn't true. I'm not saying there aren't some people like that, but to think it applies to everyone is just wrong— and again, none of this is any different from any other fandom.
I love this thread because it keeps outing this type of people and their ugly faces. THE VIEWS REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN DISPLAYING LITERALLY MEAN HATE! Oh god have you been stripped off all your senses? FFS!
Edit: I'm not being sarcastic here by the way, caps are there for emphasis, not sarcasm.
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I mean republicans are out there actually killing people over politics right now, so you tell me?
It really does suck that the world has become a place where sometimes people are held accountable for their beliefs and actions. Just a real shame.
Maybe it wasnt true 5 years ago.
Now ? You at the very least enable it and are fine with it if you're still a Republican. Being neutral in this situation is literally the same as being for it.
But it is true.
The Republican party today is the party of Trump. If you are willing to call yourself a Republican, you hold the can for the things Republicans are saying and doing, you hold the can for their policy platform.
Republicans are unashamedly anti-POC and anti-LGBT. It's not a question of opinion. It's a matter of record.
Republicans consistently argue for and implement policy designed to impoverish, imperil and disenfranchise POC and LGBT individuals. Beyond that, they seek to demonise and diminish the rights that POC and LGBT individuals have fought for.
Do you even know what the Republican Party even is? It certainly doesn't seem so
I love when people come into the thread to let us know that SonicFox's "generalization" was wrong and then only reply to those who question him with vague passive aggressiveness or they just bounce from the thread completely.
I won't agree to disagree when your party is trying to deny my relatives health coverage. I won't agree to disagree when your party is trying to bargain with the lives of people I know and care about just because their parents brought them to the United States as children. I won't agree to disagree when your party is trying to deny people their constitutional voting rights just to remain in power. I won't agree to disagree when your party is trying to hinder any attempts towards preserving our world for future generations. I won't agree to disagree when your party is fine allowing cops to murder minorities as long as they give the token "I was scared for my safety" bullshit. I won't agree to disagree as long as your party discriminates against people based on who they love or what gender they identify as. .
I won't agree to disagree until our point of disagreement doesn't involve the health and wellbeing of me and my fellow Americans.
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The world has come to the president of the United States supporting white supremacy and sexual assault, among others.
Apparently, the world has also come to people being more offended at this being pointed out, than at the fact itself.
To be fair, your post can be read the opposite way if you interpret the capitalized sentence as quoting others (which is, I mean, a typical strategy; capitalize the other side's opinion to make it seem unreasonable). You might want to edit it for clarity.
Disagreeing on some issues are activly harming or hindering the progress of our civilization.
Disagreeing on some issues are activly harming other human beings, minorities especially.
I'm curios what issues do you disagree with?
Staning for the republicans is accepting EVERYTHING they do. You can't cherry pick.