- cross-posted to:
- yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Gets caught being racist in the past
People in turn thought it was the official discord server and that Xananax an official member, and started harassing the actual Godot staff. They are forced to ban people who appear to be harassing them for no reason. Today they posted a statement to clarify
Update: Statement from Xananax
Looks like this is actually a reactionary response to them stopping hate speech in their server.
This is a dogwhistle commonly used by those with very abhorrent opinions to try to silence others with opposing opinions like “can we please do something about police killing unarmed people” or “gay/trans/[insert here] people are people deserving of rights and freedoms and representation too” because they don’t like people threatening their very closed and bigoted world view
There is absolutely nothing bigoted about separating concerns, and avoiding mixing genders & sex into programming and engineering. The fact that people want to look good by doing random stunts like this while labelling “bigots” and “nazis” anyone who disagrees tells pretty much everything about why extreme left provoke such repulsion
Also a part of a long game of “We go low, you go high”. They are suspiciously silent about right-wing politics in media. In fact, during the whole Hogwarts Legacy drama, I found a VTuber fan, that claimed trans people should keep their politics out of VTubing, just use a voice transformer or something to hide their identity. I asked if wouldn’t the same rule of “keeping your politics out” apply to them, thus playing a game tied to a highly controversial author would be political. I paraphrase their tweets: