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

I dunno if I'd blame the behavior of the characters so much as the general attitude of maintaining ironic distance from everything because actually caring about things means you're intellectually compromised

^^^

yeah, the ongoing "all things are bad or worthy of mocking, maybe some a little more than other, but take nothing seriously" strays from the "we're equal opportunity mockers of things" after a certain point

like, great, you can mock anything and everything, good for you

it is up to the creators to decide what goes into a work. it will be interesting to see what they do w the new game. they need to make some points in favor of progressivism.

last game featured lots of actual Nazi speeches sampled for the bad guys. at one point you are hearing this stuff for hours while in rpg random battles. millions of kids hearing this stuff is not a good idea. kind of amazed they got away with that tbh. if that game came out post-Trump it would be a different story.

ironic distance leads to ironic racism leads to actual racism (which ironic racism is anyway)

even if they claim to mock everything equally, that sort of apathetic libertarian 'ideology' is always going to align more closely with the right than the left because the left pushes for more change and change requires caring and caring is uncool

I was typing out more words about it, but yes, ironic racism is completely indistinguishable from racism as a third party, even if you're "joking" with your friend and using slurs against them and they're a member of that group. If you do that all the time, you'll end up meeting someone new and immediately associating all the bullshit you think is fun to scream at your friends with them.

the massive success of cards against humanity is another bit of proof that many people are perfectly comfortable being openly racist as long as they can't be held accountable

a chlling glimpse into a dystopian future where online gaming isn't dominated by adolescents shrieking hate speech at one another

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKATUb9UMAAi3z-.jpg:large

(also 'heterogamingvet' ffs)

lolllllllllll

Guys he just wants to help animals jeez

Guys, I think I'm at the objective!

not on my watch

i wonder how this dude even became a gamernerd when any single episode of Voltron or the Power Rangers would have presumably led to him throwing something through the TV screen

what's up with the product placement for coke in that cartoon? will mountain dew be outlawed by the sjw junta?

love that these dudes are shitting themselves over the most innocuous feel-good comics

may they forever have online gaming sessions where their teams are two angry-sounding men in their 30s spitting into their headsets and a half dozen tweens who are screaming

BG u don't follow @CokeEsports??

Lol at the terrible tags on these blog posts

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/tags/coke-esports

oh, for the days when mountain dew sponsorship was a distant dream and gaming events were sponsored by bawls and jolt

and by sponsored I mean they'd send a free case

BG u don't follow @CokeEsports??

a shameful oversight which i assure u i have now rectified

Good job, man!

luv2interact with #brands online about #gaming

two angry-sounding men in their 30s spitting into their headsets and a half dozen tweens who are screaming

Ideas for ILX

sorry but I can't get past "I think I'm at the objective"

"is that my man hannity!?"

This is what they want to turn gaming into ... people enjoying themselves.

this has to be a parody account... surely

#MakeGamingStraightAgain https://t.co/piI7rULTFs

— HeteroGamingVet (@HeteroVet) September 18, 2017

didn't notice the twitter handle of the guy he's responding to there, urgh

veterogaminghet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKLrgt_WkAABV7f.jpg

this fkn guy

he is remarkably stupid

Next week's tweet is gonna be

"@JamesADamore
I am now in the kkk"

wouldn't want to be moralizing the KKK

We don't have to give online Nazis the attention they crave imo

Like I'm all for exposing Nazis but this guy is looking for a social media influencer career as an aggrieved racist I don't need to see his shitty face

I couldn't read all of this in one go. Gamer culture needs to be cremated.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/21/16341458/pewdiepie-racial-slurs-online-gaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAA-MGIyjc

nice to see Disney animators from the 40s are still getting work

i wish South Park wasn't in part, so terrible

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.yhYqLlxJ1d#.jj404Jwn8e

ffs

imagine seeing the words "no more nazis" and reacting like this pic.twitter.com/5L9b8CPm3s

— Vylash #TeamKICK (@MiraVylash) October 6, 2017

Fuck these idiots forever

did people do this shit on usenet? no I'm not searching google groups

good work bethesda.

i just can't process the thought that there's a group of people out there, posting presumably from some form of western democractic society, for whom the idea of villainising the nazis is beyond the pale

what the actual fuck

seem to recall this wouldn't be the first time in US history where being anti-Nazi is regarded as a bad thing

Henry Ford be born be born