I'm upset, to use your words, at the predictability with which any news on this page that features a character outside your personal comfort zone gets filled with the same type of comments. And I revert to namecalling because it gives me more dopamine than engaging in a pointless debate that's been done countless times and won't go anywhere. I'm not here to convince you of anything. I'm here to get news about one of my hobbies, and the thought of being associated with people who get upset at the idea of women and black people existing makes it (slightly) more difficult to enjoy that hobby.
Here you call it "forced" diversity, but you and I both know that gamers get equally upset at completely optional diversity, as they did with Baldur's Gate 3. Here you paint me as foaming at my mouth but you and I both know that it takes five seconds to find some gamer raging on YouTube who's literally foaming at their mouth about the woke agenda and y'all enjoy their name calling. It's a pointless debate for me, have a good day.
Why do you/your ilk always default to "you're just upset at the thought of women/black people/(insert other member of the progressive stack) existing" when you and your special interests are met with pushback?
I'm not upset at them existing. I have no inherent problem with them being in a game (or movie, or tv show). However, I am damned tired of, and disgusted by, so many hollywood movies and television shows (since the nineties) and video games (for seemingly the last decade plus or so) promoting black people, while at the same time portraying them more positively than white people (and other races, for that matter).
It's always the same scenario/setup: the black character is always the hero protagonist (and when it comes to hollywood, in increasing frequency starting in the nineties to an almost omnipresence today, the heroes and protagonists are almost always black). The villains and antagonists are seemingly never black, however. How many movies, television shows, and videogames can you name with a white hero fighting a black villain? Anyway, the villains are almost always white. The black characters, as previously mentioned, are portrayed in a much more positive light than the white characters; but it isn't merely that: there is an underlying theme in these movies, shows and games which gives anyone paying close attention that blackness itself is being promoted... almost as if it is some form of propaganda, purposely meant to make society perceive black people as being better than white people. Rap/hip-hop; their clothing, jewelry and hair; their slang, lingo and manner of speech; black culture and values; and the black population itself are, in blatant and open manner, portrayed as hip, desirable, cool, trendy, and the leading standard by which all other races should be judged by in comparison.
Blacks are now the "default" race in hollywood entertainment, and thanks to esg and d(ivide) e(t) i(mpera) they are now the default in AAA gaming. They're also slightly more than twelve percent of the population. If you do not see the problem with those two facts intersecting, it is probably caused by your self interest creating a bias which blinds you.
SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox
