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https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-%E2%80%9Csweet-baby-inc%E2%80%9D-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-12?post=120297255#post-120297255

I'm starting to see fucking LGBTQ people or at least people claiming to be LGBTQ starting to say keep politics and political stuff out of games WITH LGBTQ content??? I am distraught, I tried to lecture that if you are a fellow LGBTQ member that shit is right wing rhetoric and explained why and tried to get them to give examples of what they think is LGBTQ and political and they would not and kept saying Timespinner was one. Friend of a friend has a game demo up on steam and this was one of the top posts asking about his "LGBTQ content" and if there was political agendas in it, but i was not able to sway the brainwashing.

Idk what we can do as a society if even our own are getting fucking radicalized by FUCKING NAZIS

We've always had pick me's in the community willing to tell bigots that homophobic/transphobic things in games are ok. They can't resist the opportunity to be seen as one of the good ones, even if it means degrading themselves in front of people who spend every moment out of earshot insulting them.

Could be because they're caught in their own internalised homophobia/transphobia, might be that they're (somehow) ignorant to the ties between media representation and public perception. Maybe they are able to not care about bigotry toward them and the community. Either way I wouldn't let it upset you. They will always be around pushing back against the rest of us, needlessly stood between criticism and the content it's intended for. I don't get it either, but I also don't waste time trying to when it's obvious they're entrenched in it.