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Bye, I guess.
I'm going to read the entire thread, as I always do, but I can pretty much guess where this is going, since it goes to exactly the same places every year without exception.
1. The first amendment to the US Constitution is often cited as enshrining a "freedom of speech" right, but US citizens have no such right. We colloquially call it that, but the amendment actually states: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. The first amendment basically says the government can't arbitrarily curtail speech. Private entities can, however. They are not limited by the first amendment.
2. Even under constitutional law, there is the doctrine that even the government can restrict certain classes of speech if there is a specific overriding government interest to do so. The Constitution places certain responsibilities on government to protect its citizens, for example, and speech can be regulated in certain narrow circumstances. Private entities have analogous interests not limited by law: they can decide for themselves what sort of speech is proper and what sort of speech is harmful within the spaces they control.
3. I'm sure by now someone is asking why Pride Month and not International Men's Day (which was brought up on IWD) or North American Doughnut Appreciation Week or whatever. Again, private entities are allowed to decide which things they decide to celebrate, acknowledge, or recognize. We don't have an International Earth Day acknowledgement in MCOC, or Cancer Awareness Week, or World Autism Awareness Day in MCOC, even though those are all great days of recognition. We focus on things like International Women's Day and Pride Month because MCOC is a game based on comic books, and historically comic books, like much media, has had a representation problem. Traditionally oppressed, denigrated, or otherwise disadvantaged groups have had those situations reflected in comic books by either lack of representation out of fear of backlash, or often disposable treatment, ala Fridging.
Comic books have had no problem depicting males and male issues, depicting straight people and their issues, depicting problems with the environment, with illness and death, with people eating doughnuts. These things happen as a matter of course. They have often treated women as second class citizens, and non-heterosexuals as either being token crime victims or simply not existing at all. And that's why in a game with a recognized history of lack of inclusivity, whose most famous public face was always (as far as I know) a voice for inclusivity of all kinds, whose most famous characters include proxies for the civil rights movement, acknowledging this by incorporating some of the generally recognized days and months designed to promote awareness of this is entirely logical and reasonable.
But I think the most important reason why it is so important to recognize International Woman's Day and Pride Month, and things like this, is because if MCOC did actually decide to add National Cancer Awareness Week to the game, we wouldn't have scores of lunatics claiming Kabam were a bunch of autism bigots or trying to promote some cancer agenda. They wouldn't be forced to respond to people saying Cancer Awareness week is an insult to all other diseases. Because most of us can accept that a company can decide to highlight one among many causes that they feel are important to them. The fact that there is always a backlash to IWD and Pride Month is *why* it is important to recognize them. We do it, until the day when no one blinks an eye when we do it. On that day, we probably won't need those days of awareness anymore.
But until then, we do it because we recognize that most of us, as comic book or comic book property games fans, understand that the comic book industry and the video game industry has not consistently treated minorities and disadvantaged groups as inclusively and fairly as we should, and that we should be aware of that fact and try to avoid those mistakes in the future. And in part, we do it because discrimination and bigotry often grows in the shadows first, like mold, and letting it pop out and become visible is a potent reminder of why vigilance is the price not just of freedom, but equality.
What we see here today is what the LGBTQ+ community sees every day. Today is the day we get to stand with them as brothers and sisters and non-binary pals and catch the tiniest glimpse of what it is like. So that the next time someone says this is just reverse discrimination, we can tell them to go climb a tree.
Nothing anyone in the LGBQTIA+ does hurts you. People are people my guy. The only people that should be condemned in life are murderers.
Is either a bigot or an idiot or both. As the overlap tends to be quite large, most people are just going to assume both.
I am literally a lawyer, having taken entire classes on first amendment jurisprudence and I can tell you with 1000% certainty that you are not. None of us have any rights to anything Kabam offers. They could shut the whole thing down tomorrow and we would have no recourse. They could Thanos snap away half the game’s population for funsies. We have no rights.
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INSANELY bad take. Divorced from reality take. Nobody would choose persecution if they could avoid it. A dude going through a dry spell can’t just change his orientation to suddenly be into other things. That’s not how anything works.
Do you not think that companies change their ways of thinking to make money? Fan service is what Kabam is doing. I don’t condemn it but it’s also annoying when it’s pandered to a group of people who don’t make 100% of the fanbase.Is either a bigot or an idiot or both. As the overlap tends to be quite large, most people are just going to assume both.
None of this is going to benefit you in any way.
fan service to support a group of people constantly harassed, belittled, and marginalized by people like you?
fan service?
Literally no group makes up 100% of a fan base. That's the dumbest thing I've ever read.
On the one hand, you claim Kabam is pushing some unwanted agenda upon their playerbase, and on the other hand you're claiming that doing so is the best way to get those people to spend money on the game. That's illogical.
Only a bigot, someone who simultaneously hates and fears LGBTQ+ people, would claim that promoting Pride Month is trying to make people gay. I said there was a lot of overlap between bigot and idiot because the rationalizations I hear trying to support this position are invariably contradictory and ridiculous. This would be one of those times.
You are starting from the position that LGBTQ+ is a wide deleterious conspiracy of some vague kind, and then bending all the facts to support it, to the point of absurdity. Kabam is promoting Pride Month because they must be pandering to the players, they can't actually be in favor of it, because only a few radical lefties are actually in favor of it. And of course companies only do things for money, so somehow the underpants gnomes must have profit at the end of promoting the LGBTQ+ agenda. So of course somehow promoting an agenda that must be targeted at only a tiny minority of players, because the people who actually care about LGBTQ+ equality are a tiny minority, nevertheless generates more revenue for Kabam than had they stayed silent.
Conclusion. All whales are gay.
People have been fighting for as long for them to be considered equal. 100 years ago, women couldn't vote. 60ish years ago, black people didn't have rights.
It's an evolution, it always has been. Just because new laws are being made, which they shouldn't have to because we're all human, doesn't mean problems didn't exist or there wasn't anyone who was gay in 1975.
It's just the the left, believe in inclusion while the right believes only white men should have rights. The left think everyone should be accepted and have equal rights. They fight for the rights to allow people to live their lives the way they choose instead of the government telling you how to live like how the right wants it.
Educate yourself better.
The Internet is forever. It's crazy you claim you didn't say it but here it is.
Do you know your supreme leader was considered guilty?