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
It's hard to support an argument that boils down to "I'm complaining that you shouldn't be complaining".
Except that this is not the argument being used. If nothing came of the hypersensitive outrage, I wouldn't care, except to laugh at how thin everyone's skin has gotten. The habitually offended of society, however, don't just complain - they harass, they browbeat, and demonize people incessantly until they force societal norms to fit their demented utopian vision where nobody can say anything that might offend anyone. Go against that societal norm, or fail to show the proper outrage at its violation, and your name will be slogged through the mud, you will lose your job, your career will be destroyed... all this and more has been the result time and time again of the whiney crusade of the faux noble sissies who make a habit of being outraged by everything. It has made freedom of speech in this country a farce, and they are not even close to being done.
"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."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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