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submitted 1 year ago by Grimm@lemmy.zip to c/bisexual@lemmy.world

I reported them for harassment with the following statement:

The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam's TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.

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[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Until the curator gets shut down, their list is a great reference of games to buy

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Would be neat to inverse subscribe to a curator, which would have the system recommend you the opposite of what they do.

[-] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

I don't think that they promote homophobia. The texts clearly are in favor of the games, they probably missed the Recommend button several times in a row

[-] icedterminal@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Some of these cute curators don't understand subtext. Labelling the game Unpacking as not woke.

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[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Maybe its time that America re-evaluates if they want to give tax exemptions to homophobic cult organizations.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I get not being interested in games that have strong lgbtq+ themes or story. I'm not, but I'm also glad they exist and people can find games that represent them. I'm also not opposed to playing as an lgbtq+ character in the same way I don't mind playing as a female character.

Being so close minded you can't stand for sandbox games to allow you to make a pride flag, or an RPG allow you to make a non binary character is just hateful.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

What a pathetic and sad way to spend time in your life. Spreading hate...

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

You reported the page, did Steam respond?

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course Steam tolerates it. Gabe Newell, Steam’s owner, is a hardcore libertarian. I bet he believes that hate speech is free speech.

They will only do anything about it if it will lose them money.

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[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Funny thing is, statistically speaking, they're probably closeted gay themselves.

Seriously though who cares? It's not really spreading hate - a lot of closeted or close minded people aren't comfortable with their sexuality and are going to do this.

People don't have to like everything, relax.

[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I dunno. I think every list like this ends up helping to normalize hate and bigotry. That said, if I made one of these with a list of Christian games to avoid, it doesn’t mean I hate Christians, it just means that I am looking to avoid games with Christianity in them.

The difference here is that “woke” is a loaded and weaponized term. It’s like having a list of “groomer” games and then filling that list with games featuring LGBT+ characters. It’s based in bigotry.

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