Before blizzard closes the thread down, they should go through and give forum vacations to all the homophobes. This is the wrong platform for them.
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They should give a forum vacation to southernphobes like you who make racist assumptions.
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I think it’s probably more appropriate to say that it’s very important not to exclude representation of specific groups of people.
Who are YOU to FORCE me to behave a certain way? To tell me what is correct?
Here is what YOU don’t get - some people just do not like potatoes…and there is NOTHING you can do about it, no matter how many temper tantrums you throw.
In other words, if you do not like potatoes then you are just “are just trapped and strangled by your own prejudice.”
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But the problem is that marginalized groups such as LGBTQ+ communities have been marginalized because of these very things. You say it’s irrelevant, but I’d wager the reason why we haven’t seen many LGBTQ+ characters is because of what LGBTQ+ people identify as. When you say it’s not important, you’re still actively pushing their identity out of the way and suppressing their voice because you don’t want to face it. It might not be as aggressive as people outright saying “I don’t want gay people in my video game”, but it is still a form of avoidance on the subject and discrimination that they’ve faced.
What many people don’t understand is that having a character whose story is about their sexuality isn’t so much pushing an agenda more than it is a statement that says “Hey, we exist”.
I’m with you, partially. I wish we could treat everyone as normal; that the night elf mage in a certain story, for example, could just be a night elf mage that happens to like the same sex, but because opposing viewpoints don’t want to treat them as normal or equal, we have to have these discussions and stories at the forefront, and we will continue having these discussions until people can see threads such as this one, and be indifferent about it no matter how troll-ish it might come off. Until then, for every person that reacts negatively to threads that ask for LGBTQ+ representation, that’s just another person who’s working against the idea of normalizing it.
Nobody is throwing a fit about straight couples. Literally everyone is just asking to have the same amount of representation as those straight couples, but go off about how LGBTQ+ characters are somehow erasing heterosexuality.
So let me get this straight: Brunettes complaining about blondes is somehow an apt comparison to LGBTQ+ players wanting more representation after the game and game community they’re a part of has done their hardest to ignore their existence because… reasons, I guess?
And you know what? You can also completely ignore it if that’s what you want to do.
Funny how that works.
I’m glad you’re not going to keep this going since you seem to flagrantly ignore pretty much anything about why this is problematic.
I’m so disappointed that not one person thought to bring the popcorn.
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Oh yes, I’m the racist one.
Here you go
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It’s called an example.
You did the same thing those people did
So yeah you’re racist.
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wishing ill-will on people isn’t really conforming to the ideals you’re trying to show.
it’s actual hateful to want something bad to happen to someone – especially over an opinion.
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A racist example. So you’re homophobic and a racist.
Nope. You can’t twist this around.
You made a racist assumption on someone else’s intelligence by saying “probably cause they’re from the south”
Dont act the victim here. You know what you did.
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Quick question:
Do you think southern is a race?
Southern is a broad term to describe people who live in the south. Bubble made an assumption on another’s intelligence based off where he lives.
That falls under the same umbrella as assuming people from the ghetto are all criminals just because they live there.
So in the end its considered racist.
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I agree they need to give people vacations, but it’s the people calling other homophobic.
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That is not what race is.
Are you spinning a word wheel and whatever it lands on you just add ‘phobe’ to it?
Buzz word extravaganza!
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fatmikephobe
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That’s not what I said. You completely ignored what I said.
I think the point is that back then people were generally openly bigoted toxic A-holes, and thankfully society is moving away from that.
We are progressing past being able to belittle, ignore, name call, beat up, etc. people that are not like “the majority”
Not really a good look to fondly recall the days where you could openly demean and beat up an LGBT kid in school.
Also not a good look to say “we had it bad back then, so you should shut up now”