Yeah I get that a lot of it is satirical but I sometimes wonder how many are just using it as an outlet for their actual prejudices. I play on a WoW private server that is much better on stamping out the “But what’s wrong with fascism? Hitler was a pretty cool guy” that permeates the vast majority of them but they get real excited when people start talking about how much they hate gnomes and I guess it’s allowed because they’re technically being prejudiced against a fantasy race. I’ve wondered that it doesn’t translate to goblins at anywhere near the same frequency because the insinuation of antisemitic tropes is probably too close for comfort.
It has a lot of real world parallels, it’s a wolf whistle, they talk about “backwards orc culture with their mud huts that only kill each other”, “windhelm being ruined by migrants”, “dunmer despite only making up 13% of the population”, “argonians being farmtools that you may fuck every once in a while as a treat”, “high elves control the world”, “race mixing is altmer propaganda, it is not possible”, “dagoth just cared about his people”
As always content made by Gamers is absolute vile trash
those type of people exist but the text strikes me as satirical (you can question the merits of such satire for sure)
Yeah I get that a lot of it is satirical but I sometimes wonder how many are just using it as an outlet for their actual prejudices. I play on a WoW private server that is much better on stamping out the “But what’s wrong with fascism? Hitler was a pretty cool guy” that permeates the vast majority of them but they get real excited when people start talking about how much they hate gnomes and I guess it’s allowed because they’re technically being prejudiced against a fantasy race. I’ve wondered that it doesn’t translate to goblins at anywhere near the same frequency because the insinuation of antisemitic tropes is probably too close for comfort.
It has a lot of real world parallels, it’s a wolf whistle, they talk about “backwards orc culture with their mud huts that only kill each other”, “windhelm being ruined by migrants”, “dunmer despite only making up 13% of the population”, “argonians being farmtools that you may fuck every once in a while as a treat”, “high elves control the world”, “race mixing is altmer propaganda, it is not possible”, “dagoth just cared about his people”
As always content made by Gamers is absolute vile trash
Yeah I can usually parse who is using the cover of “It’s just a game bro” to insert lines that chuds like to trot out.