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Originally Posted by Cole436
I'm sorry, I just don't agree with you. I, again, am going to repeat the point that we do not live in a bubble here and we should be aware of where many of these talking points come from, especially if they originate from alt-right groups that wish harm on certain groups of people. While the documentary did have... interesting reactions, the real hate and harassment came from TLOU2 and trying to change that narrative is disingenuous.
I do believe that making people aware of these things is important, especially if there's a risk it could cause others to feel unsafe. It's not about me at all. You can disagree with that position all you want, and you're more than welcome to have that stance.
Considering it feels like you're more interested in making this a personal attack and not a discussion about the subject, I don't think there's anything more that needs to be said here.
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Look, I understand your point. If this was a political thread and someone came in and started slinging slurs about Obama/Trudeau, you could likely make an assumption that someone that is more liberal in their leanings might feel like this is an unsafe space for open discourse.
That said, any discerning and scrutinizing person should be able to tell the difference between an extremist or bigoted take on those politicians and someone who is actually debating the merits of their policies and positions and yes, even egos as public figures.
It would absurd to go around policing forums and asking people to be careful about posting criticism of Trudeau because another hate-speech group also isn't a fan of him.
We cannot baby people who cannot think for themselves nor fence off areas of discussion out of fear of saying something politically incorrect or offending someone - especially in a place like CP where I've observed time and time again that the general population of posters are reasonable, open-minded, and do not live in a vacuum. Being in the political climate of this province, a lot of interesting characters have come out of the woodwork in recent months and I've seen this forum collectively discredit and shout them down each and every time. We police ourselves extremely diligently and responsibly.
What is fatiguing as PepsiFree brought up is that in every thread where some criticism of the game, show, or creators have come up, you keep bringing up the anti-LGBTQ people as the main reason this game is disliked when that is a gross oversimplification and probably factually wrong. The game (including the first, and there was plenty of criticism back then as well) is bad for completely other reasons. They are valid viewpoints and its fatiguing to be constantly smothered by this talk of those viewpoints being invalid because only LGBTQ haters hate the game.