We're Past All That: Death Threats Shmeth Threats

Friday, August 16, 2013

Death Threats Shmeth Threats

Sending death threats to kill family members that are so graphic that the head writer of a video game quits is obviously uncool, but you know boys will be boys. This writer clearly needs to grow up and learn how to internets or something. The fact that it was about same sex relationships is just a vestige of the old ignorance that hasn't been swept away. Clearly we're past all that, and it is not endemic of a large cultural issue that someone feels comfortable enough to issue death threats. This is an isolated incident. Just like the last Dragon Age game was an isolated incident. Just like the other Bioware games were isolated incidents. Just like the Bethesda games that allow for same sex choices are isolated incidents. Just like every video game that allows for same sex choices getting death threats are isolated incidents.

All of them. The lot. Isolated.

I mean if this blog is proof of anything, it's that none of these "bad apples" is part of a bigger pattern.

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If it isn't clear, We're Past All That is entirely satire. As we tackle the new face of bigotry in the form of unexamined privilege and double standards, the worst obstacle is the narrative that it is merely a few crazy outliers who are still overtly racist/sexist/homophobic/etc... The defense of one example might be cogent, but as the stories pile on it becomes more and more absurd not to consider it part of a larger systematic problem that is still live and well, and I hope this caricature persona illustrates that.

Obviously to give examples regularly of outright racism, misogyny, homophobia, and such, there will be some alarming stories linked. This is not a safe space, and some stories may be so incendiary as to be triggering.