And the sad part is, they arent even any good at hiding it
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Yall are too tense for me.
They use dogwhistles like âI want to escape reality,â whenever people ask for diversity customizations, or the ability to use either sexâs titles. Theyâre trying to escape from minorities lol.
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This reminds me of a south park episodeâŚ
Thereâs a large thread about Ion being racist towards white men. Read it. Itâs a laugh.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/ion-interview-kind-of-a-weird-thing-to-say-ion/1125453
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How are you allowed to link videos filled with expletives and the mods are not quick to remove it?
You can link any video. You have to report someone for a mod to look at it.
What was wrong with the clip?
Good thing we have an extremely dedicated posting corps here to protect us all from our dangerous no-no thoughts like âHuh that was a mean thing for that Troll to sayâ and âI wish these guys would stop punching meâ
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It goes both ways. Like, my Nelf is very long-vigil era in her world view. Isolationist, matriarchal, doesnât want anything to do with the rest of the world. She is one of many characters I have, and she is fun to RP but not the best for every situation for obvious reasons.
I had someone accuse me of âplaying a racist fantasy because I canât be racist irlâ when my Nelf expressed her distain for non-Kaldorei. which was quite a silly thing for them to say.
I do understand why some people might get annoyed with lore characters getting a race change. Or characters being introduced in a way they interpret as a form of tokenism.
What was a bit eye opening for me though, was when the character customizations went live. And there was, not a lot but more than I would have expected, people harassing dark skinned characters at the barber. Like, customization just made sense in my mind. Not even from a point of representation but just from a point of the more options the better. But a number of people were quite upset with it and that was something I struggled to understand.
I want to say they were trolls but⌠idk, usually I can see the humor in trolls, even the annoying ones. But this didnât seem funny. It was legitimate hate, it felt like. And that was really weird for me.
Did Night Elves get dark skintones? There was a massive outrage when Blood Elves got them.
yes they did.
Night elves got like a super dark purple/grey color. Very Drow.
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Thatâs not what happened.
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Renautus treated the fact that Volâjin was a jerk to Alliance players as being âanti-Horde propagandaâ filled with âcoded dehumanization of the Hordeâ
Maybe theyâd like to clarify their remarks because to be perfectly frank, theyâre right. Alliance players arenât supposed to like Volâjin in that interaction. The things he says do make the Horde look worse to the Alliance.
So? Is the very notion that the Horde looks bad in that interaction supposed to be something fundamentally objectionable? Because thatâs what the comment came off as, with a nice dash of Twitter-jargon tossed in for good measure.
Apparently at some point, writing a completely fictional scenario that makes someone look bad that makes the audience think âhuh, I donât like that guyâ became something inherently problematic to such an extent that powerful words like âpropagandaâ and âdehumanizationâ are applicable?
If so, why? Is it simply because the scenario provoked negative thoughts on the part of the audience? Why do you care? And who asked to have their brains âprotectedâ from negative thoughts?
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Cry me a river, Ainhin.
Well, even if you ignore racism, the thing with trying to dehumanize the other faction is that it sometimes leads to irl fights. Alliance players were bullied because of Corpsegrinder.
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Agreed, but people fight each other IRL over stupid dumb crap all the time. Heck sometimes people fight each other IRL for no reason whatsoever other than they feel like it.
When Volâjin said mean stuff to my character I wasnât thinking âThe Horde players will pay for this!â I was thinking âWow Volâjin is a jerk and I donât really want to help him now.â
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I still have that pic of Ren saying âIts fine to turn a woman into a Mindslave but dont you dare murder a womanâ
You take pics of me?
I donât remember ever saying that.