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The thing is, with stuff like this, it doesn't really need to be many people. This applies online and IRL. Even if <1% of people are unhinged enough to be shout
by rcxdude 3y ago
The thing is, with stuff like this, it doesn't really need to be many people. This applies online and IRL. Even if <1% of people are unhinged enough to be shouting abuse at a particular group (or just at anyone in general) whenever they see one of them online or in public, members of that group will regularly experience that abuse, because in public or in online gameplay you interact with quite a lot of different people.
- flkiwi 3y agoOh absolutely, but I'm sort of sampling from the group on this thread. There's a surprising amount of "just mute it" as if the burden of not hearing slurs should fall on the hearer. Purely as a practical matter, a private company competing in many lucrative and sensitive markets isn't going to tolerate diluting its goodwill by becoming known as the place where hate speech is accepted. One user managed to scare TWO advertisers off "X". That's without even reaching the morality issue. (Lots of folks also equating profanity with hate speech, which is bizarre. If I were in a PUBG lobby and someone called me a mfer, I would laugh. If they called me a <n-word> <f-word> <k-word>, I would leave and never come back.)