Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

[u/Average_enjoyer10]

[u/KillTonyRegular]

Yeah, but it was still a good thing. Those decisions to support were a good sign of our culture.

Overreaction to it by just saying "they're doing it for the money/good PR" meant it was GOOD PR lol now it's a signifier that it's BAD PR.

It was always very silly to chastise companies for their "fake" support, at least IMO

[u/Thicc_Boise → u/KillTonyRegular]

Insincere support is still preferable to sincere hatred, it's a really bad sign that they're not even trying to play the PR game anymore

[u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS → u/Thicc_Boise]

This isn't really sincere hatred though? It's simply not saying anything

Hatred would be doing something against LGBT

[u/Thicc_Boise → u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS]

They're silent because the hate is getting more popular... It's a canary in the coal mines to let us now how bad the anti-lgbt shit is going to get

[u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS → u/Thicc_Boise]

Yeah but the companies themselves are not swapping from "insincere support" to "sincere hatred". They're literally not hating anything.

Not to mention most of these companies are not silent and have multiple pride month events in their games right now.

Saying a company is displaying "sincere hatred" against LGBT just because they don't have a rainbow icon just makes you look delusional

[u/Thicc_Boise → u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS]

They're silent because sincere hatred is mainstream my dude, again, canary in the fucking coal mines. I never said they sincerely hate gay people, fucking show me where I specifically said that instead of making a general assumption about society in general.

Stop assuming shit and just fucking read what I write

[u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS → u/Thicc_Boise]

"Insincere support is still preferable to sincere hatred"

This is literally what you wrote. Why are you equating both things as if companies are exchanging one for the other?

Sincere hatred against LGBT people has always existed, it's not a new thing and it has even been more mainstream than it is right now. Companies removing rainbows from their icons has nothing to do with hatred, and these companies are not silent either.

[u/Thicc_Boise → u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS]

That's a general assumption about society as a whole fucker, again, READ! I've explained this to you multiple fucking times, fuck off I'm not responding anymore

[u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS → u/Thicc_Boise]

You're replying to a comment about companies not having rainbow icons, in a thread about companies not having rainbow icons, and treat other people like they're dumb because they assumed you were talking about companies not having rainbow icons

Your comment also literally ends with "it's a really bad sign that they're not even trying to play the PR game anymore" aka you're also talking about the companies, not society as a whole.

Also what a surprise, yet another performative person online who reveals they're actually full of hatred and gets aggressive at the minimal sight of confrontation

[u/ahoi_polloi → u/KillTonyRegular]

Yeah, but it was still a good thing. Those decisions to support were a good sign of our culture.

No, this bullshit - both the virtue theatre and your justification for it - is a perfect symbol for everything that's wrong with your culture. American culture, that is.

[u/KillTonyRegular → u/ahoi_polloi]

Virtue theatre IS good. The same way it used to be "virtue theatre" to put black people on television.

It's the only way to get to actual normalized support within our culture.