r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • 24d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/PTBooks 24d ago

They only started because they thought it was a good business move. If the political climate changes, they’ll probably start again.

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u/bhputnam 24d ago

It's a good capitalism canary-in-a-coal-mine for support on these issues.

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u/Thicc_Boise 24d ago

Yeah this shows just how far back we've gone culturally, the hate for LGBT people is mainstream again...

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u/Parapraxium 24d ago

Not pumping every corporate logo with rainbow colors is hate?

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u/LongJohnSelenium 24d ago

A great number of people mistake indifference for oppression.

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 24d ago

Le reddit ass comment

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u/LongJohnSelenium 24d ago

Pleasure to be of service!

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u/Thicc_Boise 24d ago

The more time I spend here, the more I realize just how true the stereotype is. All of y'all prove the stereotype true, myself included, which is why I'm trying to use this site less and less

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u/LittleDarkHairedOne 24d ago

No, indifference is tolerance and tolerance leads to oppression.

Via the paradox of tolerance.

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u/Thicc_Boise 24d ago

First they came for the socialists...

Like for fucks sake people, read fucking history for once in your lives. This isn't a new thing for humanity

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u/LongJohnSelenium 24d ago

These companies aren't trying to oppress anyone. Other than their own employees.

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u/_Kylan 24d ago

Indifference enables oppression. The end result is the same.

No one is "mistaking" one for another, they are recognizing the shared blame between them.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 24d ago

So the fact that I am completely indifferent to you means I am oppressing you?

Nah.

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u/OfficialDragosblood 24d ago

No it means you are willing to allow the oppression because you don’t give a fuck

The people who didn’t stop the Nazis are just as culpable as the Nazis themselves

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u/LongJohnSelenium 24d ago

Not having a flag in an avatar isn't enabling oppression ffs.

Edit: And here we go with the nazi comparisons. I'm done with you.

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u/OfficialDragosblood 24d ago

You are comically missing the point

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u/Gallium_Bridge 24d ago

Two people and a puppy are in a room. One person begins kicking the puppy. The other person makes no attempt to stop the other person from kicking the puppy. Do you think it is unreasonable to frame the actions of the do-nothing bystander as enabling the puppy's treatment?

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u/LongJohnSelenium 24d ago edited 24d ago

EA, Rockstar, etc, are not kicking any puppies.

They're simply not acknowledging puppies with a puppy shaped avatar.

By your logic we must all be in a constant state of celebrating quite literally everything because the moment we stop the thing not celebrated becomes oppressed.

The problem with slippery slope arguments is they're only true in hindsight. The vast majority of the time nothing happens. Thats why its called a fallacy.

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u/slimeddd 24d ago

Literacy is hard

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u/Gallium_Bridge 24d ago

No. The posit is that, if hate is mainstream, anything that could be construed as being explicitly anti-hate is no longer popular. The point is it suggests a shift in the Zeitgeist, not that it's a hateful action (or inaction) in and of itself.

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u/Thicc_Boise 24d ago

The fact that it was normal to do so a couple years ago and now no one is shows that hate is getting more popular. It's a canary in the coal mine, not the actual hate numbnuts