A lot of people should ask themselves before they post whether they're posting about the events here or about themselves. Because ultimately the people actually involved are the gamers engaging in the harassment, the company CEO, and the targeted developer. When you come in here and your concern is none of these people, but that your own identity is under attack, it's showing some strange priorities.
I post in a video game forum regularly, but I'm not going to feel offended when people in that same forum criticize gamers for behaviour that gamers are actually engaging in and have seen evidence of. I'm not going to feel offended because I don't intend to associate myself with those gamer, and I don't know why I should feel that I should just because we both play video games.
It's really strange to me how comfortable people are with making these claims of it being "empathetic" to blindly accept negative sweeping generalizations, and "problematic" to approach these choices from a place of logic. It's just too self-righteous for me to get behind.
but the real issue is that I see absolutely no strong point in just agreeing with the idea that it's okay to say "gamers are mysgonistic nazis" when 99.9% of people who play videogames have
nothing in common with these cunts.
it just strikes me as the most counter-productive thing ever; the actual assholes we're talking about here couldn't ask for a more conveniently veiled label if they fucking prayed their hardest. Hateful minorities want nothing more than to give the illusion that they're
actually the majority, and granting them that just seems like an
asinine strategic move....like why are you okay with that
#NotAllGamers my ass, the whole pathway to approaching it is just confusing to me.
Pretending that this is not specifically a gaming problem is only going to make it more difficult to solve.
So glad you're here to help us find an intelluctual and moral high ground in these troubled times. You're not solving any problems, you're derailing by making the same #NotAllGamers points that several other posters made. This is not a thread about Senator Lieberman coming for your copy of GTA. It's a thread about gamers harassing a trans woman and nearly getting her fired.
I'll tell you what I told the last guy. Don't like gamers having this image? Help take gaming back from this pond scum, instead of playing pointless intellectually masturbatory semantic games no one cares about
It's absolutely a problem
in gaming, but it's not inherently caused by gaming. Playing Battlefield doesn't magically turn you into a fuckboy. It's like saying "YouTubers are terrible people" because you saw some hateful comments in the comment section....but literally anyone with an internet connection can make a YouTube account.
put another way, does anyone notice how terms like "Alt-Right" stick so well as a negative?
It's because it's easy for everyone to clearly distinguish them from those who they'd otherwise rather hide behind.
You aren't a conservative, you're an alt-righter. You aren't a German, you're a Nazi. You aren't a muslim/christian/martyr, you're an extremist.
Any self-identifying alt-righter is extremely easy to socially shun. More intelligent alt-righters would rather come up with a completely different name. But if we just called all of them "conservatives" then it would be doing literally nobody favors....except the alt-righters.
this just strikes me as yet another "can't see the forest for the trees" type deal.
