The insane social justice thread

[ArcadiaGP]

Crosspost from the Gaming thread, since we touched on Valve's removal of certain games here as well.

Steam has released a statement on what sorts of games are allowed on the platform

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082

Good for them

So we ended up going back to one of the principles in the forefront of our minds when we started Steam, and more recently as we worked on Steam Direct to open up the Store to many more developers: Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this. If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy. If you're a developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable.



With that principle in mind, we've decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling

Of course, the usual outlets spin it

 

[ArcadiaGP]

SJW Media are Furious that Valve won't be Censoring Steam Content

 

[actaeon277]

SJW Media are Furious that Valve won't be Censoring Steam Content

Maybe they should censor SJW content, because "some people are offended", and then say, "this is what censorship looks like". Then mention it will only be for a few days as a demonstration of what happens when you get what you want.

 

[actaeon277]

SJW Media are Furious that Valve won't be Censoring Steam Content

SJWs pushed so hard, they're getting pushback.

 

[indiucky]

Whoops..Bad word...missed it...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

SJWs pushed so hard, they're getting pushback.

This really is the best possible outcome.

I hope developers no longer find themselves hindered when it comes to uploading games. Valve can easily gate the "adult" games behind an age prompt, like they do now... or add a category for it.

There are some great "adult" games on Steam that aren't pandery and shallow.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

"Darn white people and their..."

*shuffles deck*

*picks card*

"Star Wars"

 

[BugI02]

Well, white people (mostly the males, I've heard) ARE the only thing standing in the way of the Grand Socialist Utopia/Star Trek Economy. Damn recidivists

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Wired is now promoting outright censorship with calls to ban Elon Musk from Twitter because he's simply "too influential."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mu...-power-users/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The disparity between consumer and journo views on Valve's latest policy statement is exactly what Gamergate was about.

I've counted maybe 3 or so games journalists that support or are neutral with Valve's decision to not ban games. There are countless outlets whining about how Valve won't ban your games. These journos aren't pro-consumer, and they aren't hiding it.

 

[KLB]

You almost make me feel like going to those sites and commenting on how stupid those people are. Almost.

 

[jamil]

Wired is now promoting outright censorship with calls to ban Elon Musk from Twitter because he's simply "too influential."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mu...-power-users/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare

Too influential? I think the threshold for that has less to do with number of followers than it has to do with how critical he is of orthodoxy.

I know a very progressive guy who is an absolute Elon Musk fanboi. He must be quite conflicted. I'll have to ask him.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I'm out of the loop more than I thought. I thought Musk was one of "them".

 

[jamil]

I'm out of the loop more than I thought. I thought Musk was one of "them".

Maybe it's that Musk is "red-pilled?

Same thing with Kenya, really.

Thing is, the liberals who've been supposedly red-pilled, like Musk and Kenya, haven't rejected their liberal stances. It's that they're rejecting the progressive left's power/oppression narrative. As progressives have extended the distance between them and liberals, making the distinction between liberals and progressives has become more important.

The "red-pilled" members of the left haven't become conservatives. They recognize the press, and the progressive left, is being dishonest, to unfairly use its universal platform to promote their view of the world.

 

[MCgrease08]

I'm out of the loop more than I thought. I thought Musk was one of "them".

So did they. It's why they are coming after him.

 

[jamil]

[video=youtube_share;uRIKJCKWla4]http://youtu.be/uRIKJCKWla4[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube_share;uRIKJCKWla4]http://youtu.be/uRIKJCKWla4[/video]

The protestors had no apparent interest in the very dialogue they seemed to invite.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

First...

Transgender black man competed on the men's team last year... this year decided to be on the women's team and destroy them all. How do you think those actual women felt about working up to that moment, to be unfairly beaten by a man that was allowed to compete for some 'who-the-****-knows-why' reason?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31605/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien

Also... Life comes at you fast.

...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

And here's one from Indiana.

Brownsburg High School teacher fighting for his job after refusing district’s demands to call students by their preferred "Transgender" names

Perhaps high school isn't the place to play pretend? These kids aren't transgender, they're pretending to be something they aren't for attention.

 

[jamil]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...944de66d9e7_story.html?utm_term=.27f7822e39cb

it’s wapo. Why can’t we hate men?

Why are you asking? You already do.