Beamer wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 17:50:
I don't get how you guys think "not offending your fellow man" is "robot thought police."
Some of you are giant dickheads. No real getting around it. If you can not make someone feel that the way they were born is a bad thing by just not using a word, why wouldn't you? And if you're a company, why would you feature someone using that word?
It's not about being a bleeding heart, or censoring thought, it's about not being such a callous jerk that you tell someone something they cannot help that is not wrong is, in fact, wrong.
I'm not quite sure who you're responding to but I think that's missing the point. This is about a gay rights group going out of its way to find offence where there wasn't any. The original video was satirical and the video shown at the event censored out any reference to that. This was just an opportunity to hijack a high profile event to promote their agenda. And yes, I do think people need to stop taking offence to everything. There was never ANY intent on Blizzard's part to cause offence. This is bullshit political correctness gone made.
There's plenty of bigotry about. Heck, I have a unicycle and when I ride it - along with all the praise and funny comments - I get people shouting out of vehicles comments like "get a bike you queer"; I've even had people try to push me over. And sometimes I wear unconventional clothes and I get similar insults. But you can't take offence to insults like that. Sure I'd knock them out if they did anything physical against me but in the end I just feel sad for these people, people that have nothing better to do than to make other people feel worse. It's the same with race. Minorities cannot hope to win by fighting their way to equality; you have to change the preconceptions of people, you have to prove you're better than the people insulting you.
I don't start fights when people yell insults at me. If you do you only make it worse. I'm sure it is difficult when your skin colour is a reason for people to insult you but you can't give bullies the satisfaction of seeing you upset.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."