I’ve seen a few post about it but none that are condemning them for it per say?
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Those threads are moved to off topic.
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Oh okay I see.
er, most of the frustration is it’s 100% motivated by profit. companies… don’t do things if they know they are going to incur a loss. So, the opposite is true as well. companies WILL do things if there is a potential for gain. the reason being, silence is neutral and you can’t be faulted for saying nothing as a company. corporations aren’t people.
I think it also comes as a stark contrast to what happened with HK and Blitzchung. They were super quick to not only remove, but punish the player. It’s… pretty insane considering what his happening in HK right now. The scary part is by Blizzard taking action, they essentially passed judgement and declared him guilty. Now, this could give the CPC reason to act as well. How scary is that? Had Blizzard said nothing or… made it more private, the ‘problem’ could have been resolved with little issue.
BLM, regardless of your opinion, is still controversial, EVEN IF you agree with the movement. Just take a look what happened in Minneapolis last year where BLM members were blocking highways and hospitals. Some aspects of the movement are questionable, even if the core of what they support isn’t.
Blizzard taking a stance here just… doesn’t make sense. Who cares in one sense. It’s a corporation. Now if blizzard wanted to encourage it’s employees to be vocal about their thoughts, that would be a plus… assuming they wouldn’t punish employees that showed dissent.
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just want to add one last thing, what if a streamer had a BLM t-shrit on and posters on their wall and encouraged viewers during a tourney to support BLM. would that be any different then what Blitzchung did?
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they brought politics in to wow bad idea.
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It’s all for personal gain, why mention blm after what they did to Hong Kong. Because black people aren’t a majority of their profits like Hong Kong was
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It bothers me that BLM focuses on skin color, but it doesn’t make me angry.
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Oh look another hair on fire post. So unique.
Next up: talking about game issues on a game forum.
Yes there are definitely people upset about it. There’s probably some overlap with the people who are still upset about the Blitzchung thing.
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Why is it political to suggest black lives should matter as much as everyone else?
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I’m sad that some people feel that other people need to value them. Self respect is the only form of respect that matters.
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Self respect won’t stop police from killing innocent people.
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Yes it does. The police were on the scene. That meant someone was acting poorly.
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Why does it bother you? Maybe it is because I am black that I better understand the place where the people that created BLM are coming from. It is not really about skin color but the treatment that one gets because of the color of their skin.
In the end it really is not worth talking about because if people want to understand they try. If they don’t want to understand they double down on what beliefs they have. This applies to anything life vomits up at you.
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Yeah… you mean the guy that had his knee on an innocent man’s neck for almost 9 mins? How would self respect have helped there?
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Well it’s not that people have a problem with Blizzard supporting BLM, it’s more the weird behavior in supporting the protests and so on when they didn’t support the Hong Kong protests last year.
I think it’s easier to support a cause when there’s less for you to lose politically/financially from doing so.
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That is one incident. There are thousands of times per year that the police are doing what they should do. And that one guy is a bad operator, and will be tried for his crimes (if he hasn’t already).
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I kind of am. Not because of the support for BLM. I support BLM too. It’s because it comes off as disingenuous for a company that recently banned someone and fired two employees for political activism, only to turn around and do it themselves.
Not only that, this is the same company that turned a blind eye to racism in their own game for a painfully long period of time. Remember the guild The Enclave? It took a congressman tweeting about this guild, for Blizzard to finally act.
It’s like their gay pride tweet, coming off years of shutting down pro-homosexual guilds.
That’s one too many. Not to mention the dozens of other cases there have been, and I’m not even including all of the police brutality that’s taken place at the protests against police brutality.
Cops should stop killing people. That’s it. I don’t see how you could possibly argue against that in good faith.
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