I try to stay optimistic...
about the people who make up the WoW population. But, it takes only a quick venture to the general forums to take my two steps back. I think that, up until I started playing the World of Warcraft, I had a good feeling about how far the human-race had some in the area of acceptance and open-mindedness.
I read this tonight:
Warning! Controversial racial comments are inside.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...73318698&sid=1
It's made it nearly 10 pages and has yet to be removed by Blizzard.
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Old 04-01-2008, 09:55 AM #2
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Old 04-01-2008, 10:56 AM #3
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What are you doing on those forums anyway? :p
Ah, and then people complain when a gold seller advert here remains undeleted for a mere two hours...
EDIT: On a more serious note, posts like this might help you keep your optimism:
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Yeah, it really is all a bunch of crap. Racism is used for minorities to get special treatment more often than not. Racism doesn't even mean anything any more.
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Have you been outside lately? Do you watch the news? May I suggest some sociology courses? Are you currently a resident of planet Earth?
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Old 04-01-2008, 12:31 PM #4
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What are you doing on those forums anyway? :p
Ah, and then people complain when a gold seller advert here remains undeleted for a mere two hours...
EDIT: On a more serious note, posts like this might help you keep your optimism:
What bothers me most is that the community is made up nearly exclusively of sheep. I'm willing to bet that a good number of players, and even some of the posters who made a witty comment were actually offended (at least on some level). And, instead of expressing it, they chose not to ruffle feathers.
No, I'm not black. But, anything I've said which most probably presume was targeted ONLY at the whites who made those racist comments is meant equally for any and all of the black players who said, "I'm black and I thought this was funny." I'm sure some of them might respond, "you have no right to tell me how to feel about these types of comments." But, I would say the same thing to these people that I would to anyone who's getting bullied/insulted. "Stand up for yourself." Insults are insults, even when masked in humor.
All of the 15 and 16 year olds, who play Wow and on the forums, are seeing this and likely developing skewed perspectives on bigotry because people refuse to speak up and say something. It's hours later. And I'm still very angry at what I saw in that thread--not so much the original post as the hundreds of endorsing comments made about it.
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Old 04-01-2008, 12:58 PM #5
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It's likely that this was a b-tard raid.
If you don't know, theres a website called 4chan (I do not reccomend visiting this website for any reason. I'm unsure of the security of doing so, and I will not provide a link.) that basically houses some of the most immature specimens of humanity that exist on the internet. All they do is try to offend people, and generally not in any form of an intelligent respect.
One thing they like to do is flood other forums/ MMOs/ online games with their stupidity. I had a roommate who liked to visit that website and I remember seeing wow discussed as a likely target for a b-tard raid.
So try not to lose faith in the wow community, that's only what they want you to do. I've been playing this game for 3 years now and there are some sharp fellas out there.
Snow's right though, the sharp ones stick to these forums. The official ones do to me what Myspace does to me, I just end up getting angry every time I log on.
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Old 04-01-2008, 02:09 PM #6
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Try to remember that the majority of WoW players are children that think they know what they are talking about.
Also, when you start feeling optimistic about the WoW population please take 5 minutes to take a look at the rest of the population. You will quickly be reminded that the world is full of stupid people. Not 'he didn't do well enough in high school to get into a top college' kind of stupid, but a 'omg did he just try to disassemble an RPG with a sledgehammer?' kind of stupid.