o_O.Q said:
"It's literally a meme inspired by the fact that the gaming community has had several issues over the past year with multiple big figures in said community using racist rhetoric." can you give me some examples of this racist rhetoric? "The fact that you don't understand this, and though it was an actual article about Monks not saying the n-word" you have to try to understand my position here, we have reached the point where discourse has degenerated to the point where people would actually use that as an argument it was a good troll, it totally got me but much more important is what it indicates |
Ok but it's not really me being a "troll". I posted it as a joke, sure, but I didn't think people would be tricked by it - I 100% thought everyone would understand it's a meme. It doesn't sound like an article that could actually be written, honestly. It's also way too specific for this situation for it to be real, that would be too much of a coincidence.
The meaning behind the joke also isn't "trollish", jokes can have a level of seriousness in them, jokes can convey a point by making us laugh at it's truthfulness. I think the fact that we've actually gotten to where we are today, where a large portion of the biggest figures in the gaming community can't practice self-control, is something worth talking about. I may not personally be offended by people using the n-word lightly (because I'm not offended by most words and am usually ok with people using foul words in a non-serious context), but I don't think the way to counter this is to argue that these leaders in the community have no accountability whatsoever, either. His chat logs and the community he has inspired also sound like they are legitimately bigoted, which makes me think that there's some underlying truth to why he uses such words. I also feel like every time I give people benefit of the doubt in these kind of stories, more and more information comes up and eventually they're caught as being exactly what they were accused of in the beginning - though this is separate from the gaming community specifically and moreso about the entire internet celebrity machine in general. I will never not give people chances, but I also think we need to start treating these issues seriously.
