It would be an understatement to call the video gamer community sexist, racist and various other -ist. Even on heavily moderated games the voice chat is less than welcoming to anyone who isn't a white, male, heterosexual, young adult. In less moderated games like EVE, hearing things like "we raped the nigger faggot cunts" is more or less normal.
Well, it shouldn't be, and from time to time someone go to the forum or a blogpost and say it's not. And then nothing happens, everything goes on as it always was: the worst example of a gym locker room culture.
Currently there isn't a single authority figure or opinion leader who would openly support sexism, racism and the rest of the isms. You can tell to the camera that "there is no proof for global warming" but you can't tell "women aren't smart enough to get a high-level job". There isn't a sexist literature to read, there aren't sexist parties to join or clubs to attend. The ism-s live not as an ideology, just as a self-entitlement: "I'm worthy because I'm a male" for example. People of low performance love ideas that value people according to other things than their merit. Hell, they even created a class "PvP-er" which gives them self-esteem, despite the bar of joining is trivial (lose frigates).
I believe the easiest way of defeating them is to objectively prove that they are less successful than the groups they despise. I can't imagine better humiliation for a sexist than being beaten by a girl in something he fancies himself great. So theoretically it's easy to cleanse EVE Online or any other game which has competition included: beat them soundly in the game. Just imagine the tears of the "big strong guys with the big balls" after they are "raped" by "cunts", "niggers" and "faggots" (as "obviously" anyone who has a problem with hate speech must be a woman, black, jew or homosexual, he can't be a majority member who is just disgusted by hate speech).
How to implement it: simple! Create a corporation where supporters of the cause place PvP alts, funded by out-of-corp PvE mains who act as "free mercenary" in wars on the side which is less disgusting. If your region is under attack, just ban hate-speech from your forums and your coms and we bring hundreds of pilots to your aid, for free.
Except there is no "we". The above scheme is completely altruistic. The selfish protection from disgusting people is avoiding them. I did not meet a single racist or sexist slur in EVE in the last month because I don't chat with anyone who is doing such. You are only exposed to their disgusting behavior if you choose to. Also, your progression in the game does not depend on joining any group, so you can avoid talking to anyone with no in-game consequences.
This is the reason why disgusting stereotypes are alive in the primitive circles: fighting them isn't self-rewarding. Of course women fought for their right to vote. Or their right to contraceptives. Or blacks to be able to sit on a bus. But why would anyone bother to fight to moderate strangers behave badly to each other somewhere else?
This is a standard ghetto-problem. If you have a pre-existing professional/financial status, you don't need to care. I mean the "you don't need to talk anyone in EVE to progress" is true if you know basic economy, have the skills of looking up theorycrafting on external sites, aware of how game economies work in general. I could earn L4-equal income on my first days in EVE by hauling on my Badger II. But if someone "born into" the getto, he is locked into this mud. I mean if you don't know these, the only way to survive in EVE is joining players who help you get the knowledge. There you have to suffer not only the abusive behavior of the dwellers, but soon you'll be identified with them by those who aren't living inside.
So while the idea of the "Anti-Filthspeak Legion" is terrific, it's also pretty unlikely to rise as it would demand people who are otherwise fine and successful to spend their own resources protecting other people. The only reward for this activity would be the tears of the defeated filth-speakers and that would fade pretty quickly. So if you are looking at someone to organize the Anti-Filthspeak Legion, I'm not your guy. I'm way too selfish for that. Though I'd consider joining.
Well, it shouldn't be, and from time to time someone go to the forum or a blogpost and say it's not. And then nothing happens, everything goes on as it always was: the worst example of a gym locker room culture.
Currently there isn't a single authority figure or opinion leader who would openly support sexism, racism and the rest of the isms. You can tell to the camera that "there is no proof for global warming" but you can't tell "women aren't smart enough to get a high-level job". There isn't a sexist literature to read, there aren't sexist parties to join or clubs to attend. The ism-s live not as an ideology, just as a self-entitlement: "I'm worthy because I'm a male" for example. People of low performance love ideas that value people according to other things than their merit. Hell, they even created a class "PvP-er" which gives them self-esteem, despite the bar of joining is trivial (lose frigates).
I believe the easiest way of defeating them is to objectively prove that they are less successful than the groups they despise. I can't imagine better humiliation for a sexist than being beaten by a girl in something he fancies himself great. So theoretically it's easy to cleanse EVE Online or any other game which has competition included: beat them soundly in the game. Just imagine the tears of the "big strong guys with the big balls" after they are "raped" by "cunts", "niggers" and "faggots" (as "obviously" anyone who has a problem with hate speech must be a woman, black, jew or homosexual, he can't be a majority member who is just disgusted by hate speech).
How to implement it: simple! Create a corporation where supporters of the cause place PvP alts, funded by out-of-corp PvE mains who act as "free mercenary" in wars on the side which is less disgusting. If your region is under attack, just ban hate-speech from your forums and your coms and we bring hundreds of pilots to your aid, for free.
Except there is no "we". The above scheme is completely altruistic. The selfish protection from disgusting people is avoiding them. I did not meet a single racist or sexist slur in EVE in the last month because I don't chat with anyone who is doing such. You are only exposed to their disgusting behavior if you choose to. Also, your progression in the game does not depend on joining any group, so you can avoid talking to anyone with no in-game consequences.
This is the reason why disgusting stereotypes are alive in the primitive circles: fighting them isn't self-rewarding. Of course women fought for their right to vote. Or their right to contraceptives. Or blacks to be able to sit on a bus. But why would anyone bother to fight to moderate strangers behave badly to each other somewhere else?
This is a standard ghetto-problem. If you have a pre-existing professional/financial status, you don't need to care. I mean the "you don't need to talk anyone in EVE to progress" is true if you know basic economy, have the skills of looking up theorycrafting on external sites, aware of how game economies work in general. I could earn L4-equal income on my first days in EVE by hauling on my Badger II. But if someone "born into" the getto, he is locked into this mud. I mean if you don't know these, the only way to survive in EVE is joining players who help you get the knowledge. There you have to suffer not only the abusive behavior of the dwellers, but soon you'll be identified with them by those who aren't living inside.
So while the idea of the "Anti-Filthspeak Legion" is terrific, it's also pretty unlikely to rise as it would demand people who are otherwise fine and successful to spend their own resources protecting other people. The only reward for this activity would be the tears of the defeated filth-speakers and that would fade pretty quickly. So if you are looking at someone to organize the Anti-Filthspeak Legion, I'm not your guy. I'm way too selfish for that. Though I'd consider joining.
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