this is a great example of how privilege keeps its own safe spaces by making them as dangerous as possible for other ppl. https://twitter.com/HeteroVet/status/909428828530991104 …
if you say "n*gger" on your game all the time, you'll just keep black people away from your video game and you'll never be challenged.
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if you make sure that "gay" and "multicultural" are bad words on your game, there will be no gays and no cultural diversity.
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and you get to keep your nice, sweet safe space where no one will dare talk about privilege or bigotry or other words that scare you
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luckily, it's slowly but surely changing, and market pressure is a big part of that, seriously. Gaming companies want my black queer coins.
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And it's not like they're gonna cancel their xbox live if they get banned from a game for abusive language, lol.
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But the real point here is how people who don't understand the idea of a "safe space"...
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fight, violently, to make sure whatever spaces they care to occupy conform precisely to their preferences, values, and culture.
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And merely the idea that said culture isn't a perfectly inevitable, "natural" norms? Scares them to death. I love it.
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Yeah yeah specific individuals no, but do racial slurs reduce the overall number of nonwhite ppl on online games? For sure.
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All of this is bullshit. GTA has some of the racist content by Rockstar, but yet played by all backgrounds Why? Because it's a good game
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yeah yeah yeah for sure, POC will consume racist content. But might they prefer/consume MORE not-racist content?
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