Blizzard's BlizzCon Apology [Oct 28, 2011, 10:41 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
GayGamer has more follow-up on yesterday's news of outcry over anti-gay slurs during the closing performance at BlizzCon 2011. They recieved an apology from Mike Morhaime, the president of Blizzard who is also apparently a member of Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain, the band that performed at the closing. Here's word:
Dear members of the Blizzard community,
I have read your feedback and comments about this year's BlizzCon, and I have also read the feedback to the apology from Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain. I'd like to respond to some of your feedback here.
As president of Blizzard, I take full responsibility for everything that occurs at BlizzCon.
It was shortsighted and insensitive to use the video at all, even in censored form. The language used in the original version, including the slurs and use of sexual orientation as an insult, is not acceptable, period. We realize now that having even an edited version at the show was counter to the standards we try to maintain in our forums and in our games. Doing so was an error in judgment, and we regret it.
The bottom line is we deeply apologize for our mistakes and for hurting or offending anyone. We want you to have fun at our events, and we want everyone to feel welcome. We're proud to be part of a huge and diverse community, and I am proud that so many aspects of the community are represented within Blizzard itself.
As a leader of Blizzard, and a member of the band, I truly hope you will accept my humblest apology.
- Mike Morhaime President, Blizzard Entertainment
Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 14:10:Yaogun wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 14:02:Ah right. I'm half-japanese, my father is a jap, my mother is german. I'm jewish, I've lived through japanese racism first hand. I've seen rabid antisemitism first hand, and had the crap spewed at my home, work, and at me by bigots of every stripe, race, ethnicity and sex. I've seen bigotry, hate, racism and all the rest. They need to grow a thicker skin, and I've traveled all over this freaking rock. Japanese racism is it's own special brand of hate for those that aren't pure. Though none get it as badly as Brazilian-Japanese.
For those of you, like Eldaron, who complain that gay people need thicker skin or "more balls" to deal with slurs, I wonder how much of your thick skin isn't so much thick as untested.
Your sexual orientation is much easier to hide, than your skin colour and ethnicity. They need to grow a thicker skin.
I always love it when the argument gets thrown out that only gays, blacks, women, Jews, etc know what hardship is. "You white dudes STFU - your lives are big giant bowls of cherries!!!" I love it because soon after there's a post like Mashiki's that completely exposes the logical idiocy of it.
The dude is apologizing to shut the masses of crybabies the hell up so the bad press doesn't end up hurting his business. That's it. I would have done the exact same thing, all the while cursing moronic groups like GLAAD, our sissified, hypersensitive culture, and the infantile, impossible utopian vision where everyone is protected from ever being offended by anything.
In the end, this is simply a win for political correctness and the faux noble thought police, who naively assume that if you aren't saying it, you certainly couldn't be thinking it. Oh no, siree!
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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