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Steam allowing curators to promote homophobia.
(lemmy.zip)
I reported them for harassment with the following statement:
The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam's TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
It was literally getting in arms about user generated content that contained pride flags, seems pretty homophobic to me.
Define homophobic. If your definition is hating LGBT people, then its not homophobic. They are free to dislike content that contains political topics they generally dont agree with. Thats not homophobia. You gotta be a bit more accepting of contrarian views.
"Certain groups of people shouldn't be allowed to exist or show themselves in public" is not a view I am EVER require to respect.
Elaborate
You're the only one talking about groups being shut down and banned, all I'm saying is the exact opposite, that we shouldn't censor the very existence of a group of people nor should I respect anyone who called for such a thing.
Im terribly sorry for my misunderstanding. I did not catch the quotation marks. I agree with you.
Yeah it is. Telling other people not to play a game just because it allows the creation of a characrer who is not male or female is pretty homophobic
Clearly not. Its possible to not hate and accept something while chosing to not support it at the same time in your communities.
If a pride event is "overtly pro lgbtq" we have to also count Fourth of July or even Thanksgiving events as "overtly pro USA", Lunar New Year as "overtly pro Asia", and Christmas and Easter as "overtly pro Christianity".
Do you see the problem?
Not op but I don't particularly see the problem all of those things are true (well I know basically nothing about lunar new years and historical context for it but ye)
Yeah, that's my point. None of these things are bad, but if we count one of them as such, we have to accept that other events are also problematic. I would for example really like to see Ramadan events in games, but can you imagine the uproar if that were to become a thing?
Ah the problem you were referencing was the cherry picking, thank you for explaining
They're literally anti LGBT though. They are suggesting people not play games because it has LGBT themes, how does this have anything to do with "both sides"? Both sides of what?? I'm gay but most of the games I play have no gay representation, so why would it matter what "side" you're on unless you're homophobic and can't stand seeing someone who's LGBT?
Left and right. Being right wing and prefering not to play/support games that you fundamentally don't agree with is fair. Its not "homophobic" for them to notice things they personally don't align with and not recommend it to other people themselves. Even i can see that, and im ftm.
Nah, still homophobic. Not supporting something you otherwise would, specifically because it has gay people in it is homophobic. It might be part of your political belief, but it's still homophobic to single out the LGBT themes as a reason to dislike a game. I can see that cuz I'm mtf and bi. And I believe gender and sexuality should even be political in the first place but whatever.
I respectfully disagree.
I understand, I appreciate you taking the time to respectfully explain your point of view
Are you the sort of person who feels racists "deserve" to be heard too?
Comparing not recommending games based on politics they dont agree with, to racisists. Congratulations.
I take it you dug no further than... what, the post here? They make their stance VERY clear.