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Forums - General Discussion - Racism In Gaming Is Not Cool (-_-) (Updated)

 

Will Racism ever die down in online gaming??

Yes things will get alot better by next gen. 1 1.27%
 
(Yes) More than likely th... 4 5.06%
 
No it will be the same right now. 29 36.71%
 
No it will get worse as we enter next gen. 25 31.65%
 
I dont know... 11 13.92%
 
See results... 9 11.39%
 
Total:79

While I like online videogames, I personally believe that voice chat is a massive downgrade from "old school" text based chat. Back in the day there used to be some moronic comments and conversations but it was far easier to ignore.



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As long as there are teenagers playing online on games their mothers bought for them... there will always be shallow racism online.



Thanks for the update I guess.



HappySqurriel said:
While I like online videogames, I personally believe that voice chat is a massive downgrade from "old school" text based chat. Back in the day there used to be some moronic comments and conversations but it was far easier to ignore.

It's still easy to ignore...the mute buttons are just 2 buttons away.



yo_john117 said:
HappySqurriel said:
While I like online videogames, I personally believe that voice chat is a massive downgrade from "old school" text based chat. Back in the day there used to be some moronic comments and conversations but it was far easier to ignore.

It's still easy to ignore...the mute buttons are just 2 buttons away.

It was a far better system to control then voice chat. Simple parsers to filter out the worst. Mmo's had (or still have) moderators to silence people who can't be reasoned with. The simple fact that you're not anonymous and everything you type is logged kept things a lot more civilized.

It's not just on xbox live. Sometimes while I'm at the playground with my 2 year old there are a couple of 10 year olds discussing CoD using the same language as you hear online, great... We discussed games as kids too, but nothing like I'm hearing now.



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no it will never stop/end. even if the Apocalypse cometh Racism will continue to form in every way possible.

the next great game studio will be called Racist games and it will spawn many hits as we the none Racist boycott those games and as always become consumed by it and forget our ways.



docholliday said:
viewtiful_jon said:
Im British and married to an american, I often say raciest things just cos americans seem to get so offended by them. I say it about anyone and anything just to get a reaction from her. Its funny, I think British people dont make such a big deal about it and its not such an issue. Im sure there not really racist people they just wanted a reaction from you.


The amount of ignorance in this post dumbfounds me. Racism isnt about British or American. You call a black person a Ni**er I dont give a shit what country they are from its gonna piss them off. I run into this stuff all the time at work, ppl who dont understand it or are ignorant to racism just randomly blurting out ni**er in not so funny jokes or just as a way to reference someone who is black. Of course them thinking because i'm white its "ok". not realizing my daughter is bi-racial and is half black.  Its not "cool" to be racist for the hell of it, or on the internet cause there is no consequences. If you wouldnt say the shit to that persons face then dont do it online. /endrant

 

not really as the origin and use of the word is more popular some place than other places in the world.

 

for example where there aren't any negroid people like china,when they see american hip-hop songs mentioning it and glorifing it,they think of it as COOL.

the same way for other people,you can't just shut people up.they can say whatever they want to.

 

its racism itself that a black man can call another black man nigger but a white,asian man can't call him with the same name.

till the time somebody keeps on glorifying it,the word will keep coming up

 

racism is just as common as any other type of discrimination,just that people pay too much heed to it



the "Niger" insult has lost all credablity as a insult when the people it was used to insult start using it themselves to refer to them selves. Same with the australian term "wog" which was by people of "British" Background used to offend the Italians and Greek migrates. It ended up being used by them to desribe themselves to the point there was a movie made calling them selves the suppose insult. 

You have to remember that the word "Niger" is Latin for Black, and "Negro" is black in Spanish. They weren't started off as insults they were just used by people who language had those words as the colour which remains today. 

Also i would like to point out that the Insult "Niger" isn't even just soley used to insult black people any more same like "fag" is used to insult gay people. 

I would like to end on if the people who uses it as a term to refer to themselves then others can use it themselves. Becuase that like we australians calling us Australians but no other person can but must refer to us as "Awesome" instead, because Australian term offends us and we prefer being called Awesome instead. 

 

 



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