Read the room before you post.
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Be quiet!!
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So youâre insinuating that LGBTQ+ are the âlowest common denominatorâ?
Big gamer move.
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Itâs gamer time
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Only when Iâm on the bottom
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I was gonna post something snarky but this is pretty much the perfect response.
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itâs a stock response. iâve been defending my right to exist for way too heckin long lmao.
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The problem with bothsidesism is that it doesnât work.
A bigot and an anti-bigot arenât the same because both are intolerant, because to be tolerant of bigotry and intolerance is to promote that intolerance.
âDifferent viewsâ are not all equal. If your views are based on denying a personâs humanity and/or rights, there is no argument to be had. This is pretty basic.
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why are you here, out of all the threads in the entirety of the forums?
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Pretty much agree with all the rational heads in here and the few rather unfortunate times Iâve seen homophobia rpâd out, I canât say it did anything to make the environment or situation feel more realistic or round out a jerk characterâs flaws to be believable. Most of the time itâs to make a characterâs sexuality something to ridicule or insult baselessly, so idk who anyone was really fooling with any of that. Itâs shallow and disrespectful to LGBT that very much have to contend with homophobia in their real life that donât want to deal with it in a game they likely come to for fun, myself included.
And people can call it pandering if they want, but I agree more so that Blizzardâs finally trying to have a spine about this and put their foot down. Itâs been pretty indicative for a long, long time what kind of people lurk in blizzardâs fanbases and have taken silence over the years as either silent approval or enabling when they pile on any criticism, frustration, or any kind of comment from LGBT fans. Thatâs not to mention the outrage that always bubbles up when it comes to decisions that aim at increasing diversity that they donât like.
So Those Kind of People coming in acting all indignant and claiming both sides, nah. Take your L, go publish an amazon book about it or something.
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Didnât mean to offend your side, my comment was directed at those who complain at Blizzard doing something like this.
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âYour sideâ, so you admit youâre not on our side? Can you just leave? We are trying to bully a homophobe one at a time
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Not offended, just curious.
But yes, thereâs a lot of energy some people put into having homophobia exist when itâs so much easier to just say it doesnât.
thatâs honestly how i took it lol
why get mad about gay people when u can get mad about bad writing? itâs much more productive.
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Unfortunately, I do not speak English as my main speaking language, if my grammar offended you, Iâm sorry.
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It doesnât exist in Azeroth. If your character is homophobic to mine, Iâm going to emote cleaving them in half, and then Iâm going to blacklist you. Iâll tell everyone else to blacklist you too.
Get out of my community.
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No need to apologize for that, but you understand how saying âI donât care about LGBTQIA+ representationâ could be taken the wrong way in a thread where people do not care about LGBTQIA+ representation
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I meanâŚ
If your argument is that you want there to be homophobia in canon so you can be mad about it rather than because youâre a homophobe⌠Well, I guess thatâs not as straight up evil, but itâs not really any less messed up. Thatâs still gonna be a hard pass from me dawg.
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I would rather have not had to deal with homophobia so bad growing up that I ended up wanting to harm myself even for the sake of my character development. I would have much rather grown up in a world where homophobia was nonexistent and people accepted and loved me regardless.
So homophobia as a story writing tool is dumb to me. Itâs not good
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One last post from me, because Iâm tired of this.
Iâm not being diplomatic about this anymore.