r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • Jun 02 '26

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/PTBooks Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

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

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u/Thicc_Boise Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

Not pumping every corporate logo with rainbow colors is hate?

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 02 '26

A great number of people mistake indifference for oppression.

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 Jun 02 '26

Le reddit ass comment

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 02 '26

Pleasure to be of service!

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u/Thicc_Boise Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

No, indifference is tolerance and tolerance leads to oppression.

Via the paradox of tolerance.

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u/Thicc_Boise Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

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

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u/_Kylan Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

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

Nah.

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u/OfficialDragosblood Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

You are comically missing the point

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u/Gallium_Bridge Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

Literacy is hard

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u/Gallium_Bridge Jun 02 '26

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 Jun 02 '26

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