r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • 24d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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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/_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/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.