Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

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Judge all black people by the actions of the few - Racism
Judge all people who are against censorship and thought policing by the actions of a few - Social justice
This is the problem with social 'justice':

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -- C.S. Lewis

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[–]KiltmanenatorInexperienced Irregular Folds 5 points 7 hours ago
That's some top shelf quality posting there, leader.

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link

oh good, now my skin is crawling

DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link

wowww_something random and stupid 6 points 3 hours ago
If only Jack Thompson could have been a victimized woman with feminism at his back. He would have made mad bank instead of being laughed out of his profession.
Anita doesn't even have a profession, and she's hailed as skilled in her field.
It sounds like a terribly bad joke, if you think about it.

Atratus920 2 points 3 hours ago
Straight fucking up, man.
Logic no longer exists in this world as something good people can use to move forward. We have to learn how to shout loud and repeat the same "victim" exploiting crap. Actual thought apparently no longer matters.

Every time I look into this stuff it is just a bizarre anti-realm of newspeak and oblivious irony. A lot of it does read like teenagers who just read Rand for the first time, the world is just a laboratory for them to test the limits of free speech, which drives an ideology of self-victimization, historical revisionism, and toxic paranoia.

They rant about SJWs claiming the victim, while every post is whiny shit about how the entire world is a conspiracy against them.

They rant about the dangers of censorship and opportunists yet embrace an opportunist who made his career censoring games.

All the bad qualities and tactics they project onto SJWs are all they have. They are the only things holding together this leaderless directionless destructive 'movement'.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link

this Jack Thompson thing is so bizarre, he wanted to ban GTA one of the games they defend against SJWS!!!!!!! wtf

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link

one of the great far-right ideas these kids have imbibed is that "progressivism" is the new state religion so contemporary feminist/antiracist critics and 80s-era xtian fundie media fighter types are the same thing

goole, Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link

I fucking WISH progressivism was the new state religion

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link

yeah i guess

also i suppose the tendency of ppl who are complete pieces of shit to congregate together

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link

ilg board description

polyphonic, Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link

wait wait wait these twatjockeys are DEFENDING Jack thompson now, wtf!?

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 11 June 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link

I noticed a ton of /kotakuinaction subreddit threads firin up once the fatpeoplehate batsignal went up =\

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 June 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link

feel like this might be helpful some day so just putting it here
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bsmOx5BBVks/VXozuLo7ZDI/AAAAAAAByqk/E-ziaufd4k8/s1600/Girls_Love_Stories-012-20.jpg

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 June 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link

are you ready for ethics lmao

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

whut

Purves Grundy (kingfish), Sunday, 5 July 2015 06:47 (eight years ago) link

love the animation, too bad it's for something so stupid

Nhex, Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link

oh yes, that richard williams. For a min, I got him confused with Ken & Roberta Williams

Purves Grundy (kingfish), Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link

seems about right btw
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/this-industry-is-fucked/

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link

it's still going

http://spjairplay.com/update6/

goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link

what the hell

I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link

Grim · 1 Day Ago

What this sounds like, Mr K, is the betrayal everyone on the GG side has been expecting from you and that I’ve spent considerable time disarming and convincing people to continue to give you a chance.

15 minutes isn’t enough to cover the history and it is very important to give a context. A compromise might have been a briefing document but the history is necessary to understand everything.

All these people have been making even more effort than I have been to convince people this is a worthwhile endeavour, an effort you’ve just managed to utterly undermine.

Compromise is possible, but eventually there’s not much more you can give. People have been demanding compromise from GG but not reciprocating for some time.

Fixing problems isn’t immaturity, cutting and running after creating a problem and leaving the big boys to clean it up after you is pretty immature.

Yes, it is consuming, because it’s a big issue and even more so it’s a single battleground in the much larger culture war. It’s going to take effort. Perhaps you’re learning – as many have – that this multibillion dollar industry isn’t so trivial after all.

Maybe you should have tried to smooth things over before posting this.

If you need a mediator perhaps I could offer my services as a fresh face and figure out where things got twisted.

goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link

clicking thru the links it appears that yes, that is this guy:

grimachu designed a card game wherein the players are hentai tentacle monsters and compete to rape people, unless im missing something

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:03 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link

15 minutes isn’t enough to cover the history and it is very important to give a context.

Do they think this is some labyrinthine conundrum that mere mortal minds have difficulty comprehending? How difficult is it to understand "gamers are deluded whining babies; here are a series of amazing and pathetic examples as to why"

I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link

Perhaps you’re learning – as many have – that this multibillion dollar industry isn’t so trivial after all.

Keith Moom (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link

that can be used as a readymade response to p much any argument ever. Finally something good has come out of GG!

Keith Moom (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link

maybe he could just stand on stage and shout that particular racial epithet for a while

Upright Mammal (mh), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link

https://twitter.com/oliverbcampbell

goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link

kind of an excitable guy

goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link

how come mario doesn't have any black friends

The Once-ler, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link

looks like I've ggautoblock'd him, what a delight! :D

cat-haver (silby), Thursday, 16 July 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link

lol PROVEN BY SCIENCE: statistically significant correlation between harassing women online and sucking at Halo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/20/men-who-harass-women-online-are-quite-literally-losers-new-study-finds

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 07:34 (eight years ago) link

that doesn't sound like a very like a very scientific study, if i'm being honest

Nhex, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link

im pretty good at halo

#notallmen

Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link

that doesn't sound like a very like a very scientific study, if i'm being honest

― Nhex, Tuesday, July 21, 2015

gtfo there's a data table and everything

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link

lol

I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link

not awesome methodology

whiny-ass millennial titty babies (silby), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link

our favourite grant morrison cosplayer has released a 'rough cut' of the sarkeesian effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6AibgptNxc

his erstwhile partner has released a response video longer than the video he's responding to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1bTPNdk5FI

i haven't watched either because fuck that but i did find a summary of the response video which includes this priceless line:

Jordan reveals that Aurini originally wanted to structure the doc as a buddy comedy and wanted Him and Jordan to be characters in the doc which he continually pushed for and says this is the reason why they were framed into the interviews.

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link

I seen the best minds of my generation, hysterical

regret it? nope. reddit? yep. (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 09:39 (eight years ago) link

self-clowning ovens, each and every one

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 11:05 (eight years ago) link

Redrumrunner
6:11 AM GMT
The vast (vast) majority of self profesed male feminists I know are very, er, non masculine guys with high pitched voices (and a valley girl twang) that were raised by a single mom.

I think they feel bad because they arent masculine, and who hates masculinity more than feminists? These guys feel comfortable with feminists because they bash masculinity, and if they bash masculinity, they dont have to feel bad about not being masculine.

The sad thing is, not even feminists really want to sleep with them, which will only further their frustrations.

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 11:36 (eight years ago) link

true. we should all aspire to models of rugged masculinity like davis aurini

http://i.imgur.com/wihA02W.jpg

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:37 (eight years ago) link

collects skulls/is skull

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link

the degree to which this guy links his identity to Smoking Cigarettes and Drinking Whiskey is kind of tragic.

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link

that's someone's grandma's sofa, too

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link

wow that's remarkable, he really does look like skeleton. which is...ironic.

Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link

is he wearing two pagers in holsters on his belt?

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link

prefers masculine signifiers like taut, well-toned abs and lots of leather

regret it? nope. reddit? yep. (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:49 (eight years ago) link

i see the "has a family" part of the definition of "patriarch" is slipping away

goole, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link

SPOILER: The big reveal of the film is apparently that Feminist Frequency's address is ... a post office box!! They tracked it down and filmed it. That is, their revelation demonstrates why people use PO boxes.

jmm, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link


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