May I suggest you look into the issue more? Obviously the Overwatch forums isn’t the place to argue these issues, but that’s one of the most complicated issues there is between two nations.
For the record, its not a matter of “pick and choose”.
That being said, I don’t want to discourage any conversation about this subject as long as you all keep it constructive and keep it related to Overwatch and Blizzard. I just want to set the facts straight.
Ukraine vs Russia is totally uncontroversial in the West, Israel and Palestine unfortunately isn’t.
Openly supporting Palestine means taking a stance against Israel and that’s not something a company can do without backlash. It’s too much of a hot political issue.
I never will understand why people make the suffering of innocent into a political issue. These people don’t care about what’s morally right, they only care about their politics, like its some sort of game.
sadly you’re right, i’ve seen so many people getting a lot of abuse simply for posting their support for Palestine, it’s messed up how much hate people get simply because they don’t want people (including children) getting murdered
Something tells me I won’t get much love on this thread but Palestine isn’t exactly innocent in this conflict and has lead to children’s deaths, same as Israel.
Alas, even if you could separate money and politics from it, there still wouldn’t be a clear or easy solution to Israel and other messes in the Middle East such as Afghanistan.
Previous generations of Western nations screwed things up so badly with colonialism and how they divided countries and mixed enemy tribes together. Horrific as it is, doing nothing and letting the region sort itself out may well be the best thing the rest of the world can do now lest we continue to do further damage.
They’ve shown today that is 100% BS. Unless someone can provide evidence the Ukraine flag usage suddenly became legal very recently, they had in fact been choosing (at least in some cases).