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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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What is fundamentally wrong with these people?
What is it that they actually want?
It seems like they don't want anyone except themselves to exist. That's clearly not a realistic thing that is going to happen and they're inexplicably angry about it. All the time. One might as well go through life wishing that the colour green doesn't exist.
They want these groups to exist, so that there's a class of people that they can feel superior to
But once society starts even slightly addressing the inequality in the most minor ways, they're terrified that their 'superiority' is at risk and they can't cope with that
To a certain extent, I don't even think it's that. I think they are annoyed that instead of organically tying characters to different thoughts and different views, it just gets shoehorned in. I think it's the same sort of thing when they have to throw an awkward trope or a love interest into a game where it doesn't benefit the story by any means. I think a majority of these people feel that instead of organically tying these characters in, they are worried about Sony shoe-horning in what they consider woke/PC culture into something just for the sake of being woke/PC.
That said, I really hope that they continue to show people of different views, ideas, and lifestyles in games, as "demystifying" the perspectives and lives of marginalized groups typically changes how people perceive these others outside of their typical worldview.
They do, and they're told to be very angry about it.
Conservative thought is that hierarchy in society is good and natural... so long as you allow it to develop organically. "Wokeness" is an attempt to "subvert" the "natural hierarchy", which is clearly why things are going wrong in society.
Long story short, some podcast bro told them that shit is bad cause woke and they didn't put even an iota of additional thought into that.
Probably all non white males should be the enemy in their games to reflect their dream world?
Except white hetero women ofc.
Isn't this satire?
This specific example may or may not be, but there's been plenty of examples of developers, voice actors, and so on that have been on the receiving end of awful behaviour from people that do think like this.
These are satirical/ironic. It's a joke, probably fair to call it a circlejerk but it's mostly self-perpetuating at this point. "Gamer, rise up!" and "I'm sure everyone will have pronouns as well" are the main giveaways. The last one I'm less sure about because the punchline is weak but I would still guess it isn't sincere.
Gamers Rise Up context
I used to believe like you. That these were just trolls. Otherwise reasonable people having a laugh. Good times all around.
And then the election happened. So now I'm no longer sure that the world is full of mostly reasonable people. And I believe at least half of these people are actually like this.
It could be, but I've seen what seems to be genuinely held beliefs that look identical to these.it turns out these very fragile snowflakes actually exist too, to the detriment of us all.
Poes Law
Poe’s* Law
Have you seen the Stellar Blade petition videos? People like the ones in the comments exist.
https://youtu.be/UCCeDNVfW04
Sure some are parodying but these socially awkward white men who wrap their entire life’s around videogames are real and are the loud minority. Because games are their life they feel attacked when they see non-whites they can’t kill in games.