I’ve seen some racist BS in this game.
I roll my eyes, think less of the person, and move on.
(As to whether the OP’s example is racism is about 30/70 chance… humans being degraded for perceived incompetence or frequently called monkies regardless of whether their skin color is known.)
If you get all butthurt about it, you invite more of it.
Sorry to throw a monkey wrench on what you are saying but he didn’t call him a monkey, he used the idiom ‘follow the monkey’. Context matters, whether you know someone or not is irrelevant. Don’t be fooled by monkey talk, it’s there in black and white. So take this monkey off your back and lighten up.
Ah yes, it’s absolutely fine to degrade someone so long as we can assign a 30/70 statistical chance to it that suggests it wasn’t intended to be racist, when the avatar the player being abused has dark skin…
Sure, it’s all good then. The world is right, so long as we can degrade others without any consequence. If they just so happen to actually not be white and we’ve just called them a monkey, it’s just fine because there’s a 30% chance it wasn’t intended to be racist.
Do you lot actually think about what you type before you hit your keyboard?
Dear lord please bring back old Call of Duty chatrooms. Not sure if this post was to get attention, but how does anyone know what the color of your skin is? Please stop acting like you’re the victim because someone on the internet hurt your feelings. If you feel like you’re being targeted, please use the in-game report option and not bring this to the forums.
There is no such idiom as “follow the monkey”. You’ve just made that up on the spot.
He called him a monkey.
All I can say is sorry. It must be epically exhausting to not only experience this racist shit in real life, but in game as well. AGS needs to respond harshly to any bigotry in game or on the forums. And yes, to anyone who is black being called a monkey is a long time well known racist slur. Those who don’t know it are the ones who don’t get it and probably use it without realizing its origin.
I hope you can get some sort of response from the devs on this. I’ve had to turn off global chat because of toxicity, racism, and sexism. I figured it was just part of MMOs but that shit really needs to stop. It reflects badly on the community, on AGS, and it drives good players of color, women, and non-binary genders away.
Anyone who thinks they should respond to my reply with “grow a spine” or “grow thicker skin” needs to “grow a brain” - This isn’t SJW nagging. We’re all human beings just trying to enjoy our time in a game. Just accept everyone’s differences and go about playing w/o spewing bigotry based statements and labels.
You’re trying too hard to look for racism.
I do think, though I don’t think the concept is universal.
“there’s a possibility it is racially motivated, therefore it must be racism!”
(You lot do know that the Brits finally also moved to “innocent until proven guilty” like…35 years ago, right?)
Yes, I just made it up… on the spot… and the person who’s comment is fifth in this very thread time travelled to copy me.
I’m sure you know every idiom ever created.
i am a person of no color.
china is not a race.
They have forced people to change name for having ‘fart’ in it because it might be viewed as ‘morally unacceptable’ to some individuals. If anything they are oversensitive.
that’s why i named myself golFcART. jokes on them.
This thread has convinced me the moderation team and community managers work banker hours in the eastern hemisphere.
I love how this post went right over the respondent’s heads lol
Cool it with the antisemitism, goyim.
Don’t worry i get racism for being White it seems and people constantly spamming " milk " at me for being white hahahaha
What an interesting perspective… first few seconds reading this it’s easy to dismiss, on further thought it does make a kind of sense.
I don’t know i think this is more an usa problem. I play on eu servers and i didn’t see much racism.
Nothing to serious at least.