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10/17/2019 8:54:36 AM
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Blitzchung and the SJW Cancel Culture
Is it right or wrong to express how you feel about social justice issues on certain media outlets? I’m interested in what you guys think.
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3 RespuestasWell, if Blizzard didn't feel the need to preach and act holier than thou all the time, they wouldn't have been called out for their complete and utter hypocrisy.
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Editado por TheArtist: 10/19/2019 12:36:35 AMThe issue isn't that simple. Blizzard is a business, and has the right to run it as they see fit. But Blizzard also decided to do business in China....and to bend-the-knee to one of the most aggressive and restrictive police-states on earth. Before China became our BANKER, and the holder of most of our national debt....we used to routinely criticize how China treated its citizens...and abused its dissidents. Blizzard---in pursuit of money---chose to put itself in the middle of this situation....and therefor the fight for freedom going on in Hong Kong (which frankly I'm only suprised that it took THIS long to finally boil over). So yes.....Blizzard has the right to run their business as they see fit. But that also means they need to deal with the fallout that comes from being percieved as the BAGMEN for a totalitarian regime....and sold out any semblance of principle in the naked pursuit of money. TLDR: This is what happens when you take your business into fraught political waters. Blizzards between a rock-and-a-hard-place.....and have no one to blame but themselves for being there.
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5 RespuestasVideo games are not for political views, there for games...
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Imagine making the suppression of democracy and American corporations supporting a fascist regime about SJWs.
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1 RespuestaEditado por Uncanny_Vale: 10/18/2019 3:07:48 AMBlizzard had every right to do what they did. It’s their company and they are perfectly within their rights to decide what can and can’t be said on their platform. Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to private companies. Having said that I think Blizzard (and the NBA) are morally bankrupt, cowardly, hypocritical, greedy shits for doing so. Ethically speaking - at some point companies need to draw a line in the sand and put ethics before profit. What kind of a sad state are we in when someone is punished for expressing solidarity with people being oppressed by a brutal dictatorship. [spoiler]Also what the -blam!- has SJW’s got to do with this? [/spoiler]
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2 RespuestasI don't know how you managed to grasp straws that far out, given that it seems everyone except for pro-China seem to be for Blitzchung. Grasping at imaginary straws is a norm at this point everywhere I see and go. I can't find any logic or reasoning behind trying to equate SJW's with people who are pro-China, if there's any to begin with. If people who are anti-SJW just want to do a daily reminder that they don't like SJW's, just put out a daily reminder to yourself that you don't like SJW's. It requires less effort.
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2 RespuestasI do not know the full story, but here is my opinion. If he was protesting at the event or using the event to boost his voice or something like that, he shouldn't do that. You don't protest while at your job, period. But if he was protesting on his own time, say on a Twitter account or YouTube video or something like that, he should be able to do that and not feel any negative consequences. I don't know what exactly happened, I haven't looked into it that much, but those are my standards
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1 RespuestaHow is this SJW related? Hong Kong is in serious shit right now
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3 RespuestasI don't care if Blizzard wants to have rules that prohibit discussion of political issues on their official streams, but they need to be made very clear and enforced without any bias or double standard. The repercussions should also be significantly less harsh than their response to Blitzchung and the two casters. It was pretty obvious that their overreaction was an attempt to appease China and they wouldn't have been anywhere near as harsh or even punished someone at all if they had shown support for other political causes such as LGBT rights or environmentalism on an American stream.
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He broke Blizzard's rules, but when it's about being against a dictatorship and wanting basic human rights, he had more than enough reason to speak out. Keeping politics out of gaming is overall good, but wanting freedom from tyranny should never be silenced, anyone who says otherwise is messed up.
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5 RespuestasThe Hongkong situation is not SJW related, it is a protest against the totalitarian regime in China. And yes he can speak his mind, that is what freedom of speech actualy means, and the fact that western companies are trying to censor it is outright disgusting.
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You know, there was this one time that I went out with this chic and we had a lot of fun. Then she told me that her car wasn't starting. What a total SJW!
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9 Respuestas? This makes no sense. Downvote. [spoiler]for the record, while I support a companies right to do what they will with their proprietary online platform, the fact that they censor free speech to please the ruling communist party in China; the same party that murdered protesters in 1989, suppresses free speech regularly and steals technology from other nations; is regrettable and the reason I ended my subscriptions and deleted the launcher and games from my computer. What's more the digital age is changing the meaning of free speech, which is also regrettable as political view points can be suppressed fairly easily at the push of a button, and global corporations can suppress Information in the pursuit of profit. Where does the freedom of speech end and begin in the digital space, and does it even exist any more. Is it even a plausible fact of life in the digital space, when conflicting data is spread to sway the public in a chaotic manner. MGS2 tackled this issue, years before it was even a mainstream issue. Hideo Kojima is a genius. [/spoiler]
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He should be able protest to vs he should not protest. Should be: He should be able to protest vs he should not be able to protest.
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1 RespuestaHe was definitely in the wrong. The main problem is how severely blizzard punished him.
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When you're so far right you gotta make everything about the far left.
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14 Respuestas... Personally think you should keep your politics out of any kind of sport... [spoiler]not included in the DLC[/spoiler]
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I dont see it as much different than the football players who take a knee during the Anthem. No reason for the crazy blowback from Blizzard.
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3 RespuestasEditado por Psyntifik: 10/17/2019 10:04:04 AMWhat's happening in Hong Kong is [b][u]not[/u][/b] an sjw issue! To answer your question, he was by all accounts breaking the rules. He may very well have known the consequences and found that sacrifice to be worth it for the amount of attention it got.
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9 RespuestasDepends on what Blizzard wants to do. This has nothing to do with “SJW cancel culture”. Blizzard didn’t want political messages being pushed on their outlet. And besides, it’s no surprise a corporation would do something like this because they don’t want to hurt their relationship with the Chinese market.
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What does this have to do with SJW shit? You have confused me
