-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Boogie2988 invited to the Game Awards (famous champion of 'both sides' in regards to white supremacy)
- Thread starter Khanimus
- Start date
- Status
Shit, not watching game awards now.
I believe that people like Boogie and their centrist bullshit are not only a problem but they are THE PROBLEM. You see.. An open Nazi/bigot, you can see them coming from miles away and deal with them accordingly, shut them down, deplataform them, punched in the face, what have you.
But centrist "hey let's just talk about it, let's make questions" idiots like boogie are not as easy to spot and provide a tolerant environment for people with these views, always with the option to deny responsibility and always giving bigots the option to deny responsibility also or to rationalize their views.
I am glad that this has been picked up, maybe not everywhere, but at least here in ERA and being called out, this narrows also the plausible deniability window for people like Geoff Keighley who is very much aware of this thread (or at least the person who handles his account, who should be very close to him)
I believe that people like Boogie and their centrist bullshit are not only a problem but they are THE PROBLEM. You see.. An open Nazi/bigot, you can see them coming from miles away and deal with them accordingly, shut them down, deplataform them, punched in the face, what have you.
But centrist "hey let's just talk about it, let's make questions" idiots like boogie are not as easy to spot and provide a tolerant environment for people with these views, always with the option to deny responsibility and always giving bigots the option to deny responsibility also or to rationalize their views.
I am glad that this has been picked up, maybe not everywhere, but at least here in ERA and being called out, this narrows also the plausible deniability window for people like Geoff Keighley who is very much aware of this thread (or at least the person who handles his account, who should be very close to him)
Keighley is the one leading this and he has been aware of all these issues for a long time, and not only did he invite Boogie despite all of this public knowledge about his behavior, he did so publicly, which means he either doesn't give a shit or is doing it as a cynical ploy to get his audience to tune in.
He is tacitly supporting this behavior in either case.
Yeah poor guy his dad, but you know those victims from the Holocaust? Fuck them because something "good" apparently came out of that.
Fuck this dude.
Yeah I had severe emotional reaction, and it maybe in some ways hit too close to home so I took it personally.
Sorry everyone. I'm broken.
Boogies has very fucked up views on women. Trust me when i say that whatever your guesses are, its ten times worse.
His defense of sex workers during the whole tax scandal was one of the most hypocritical, two-faced steaming pile of bullshit I've ever seen or heard. He's no ally, don't believe him.
His defense of sex workers during the whole tax scandal was one of the most hypocritical, two-faced steaming pile of bullshit I've ever seen or heard. He's no ally, don't believe him.
I already did, by not making excuses for nazis, by not blaming feminists for charlotesville, by not blaming gay people for getting civil rights too quickly, by not blaming harassment on a company making cards with minority representation.
It turns out that it's actually pretty easy to not be complete human scum.
Here is another one. Who opened the floodgates to stupid?
OP
OP
I do. Every day. For example, I don't validate bigots. I don't validate hate movements. I don't downplay the holocaust. I don't hold my spouse as a hostage with emotional abuse and cry victim every time someone calls me on my shit.
Happens in any thread about subjects like these. Low post alt accounts all over.
Sorry, people who don't see psychological problems as valid are people that I just can not have a discussion with.
If you really think that was "handwaving" I am done with this discussion. No offence.
I don't blame you or anything. I still even tend to lash out when stuff like that hits close to home.
i know you were banned, but this is usually your MO in every "provocative" thread and i'm not at all surprised you got what was coming to you.
I can live with the guy trying to deal with the fact that his dad did some really horrifying things while recognizing that they still may have had some level of emotional bond, or at least that he wishes that he could have had one with people who had that level of power over him at the time. Hell, I'm not on board for torture as a punishment even for violent rapists. If the shit he claimed above actually happened then I can at least understand why he's conflict-avoidant the way he is.
Of course, when he says something like this while at the same time laughing about his first wife dying in almost the same way, it's revelatory about what his attitudes are, and is all anyone would need to argue that he should not be allowed to do anything publicly-facing, like, ever. For all that his upbringing would lead him to normalizing exceedingly disgusting behavior, these are not attitudes that he has no control over.
I mean, yes, to a certain extent. I think that's a pretty common view. Like, most societies agree that you can, say, imprison a criminal for a certain duration against their will, or force them into psychological treatment, which you aren't allowed to do for non-criminals. It's generally agreed on that you treat people a little differently depending on the circumstances involved.
lol no.
I don't know how progressive or conservative many developers are, but as one of many who follow him on Twitter, anything political he likes is progressive.
As does Shawn Layden, actually.
Lol are you dropping that tired ass BE BETTER shit?
We already are better. We don't cape for Nazis and white supremacists and supporters of a white ethnostate. Guess how a country gets to an ethnostate? Hint: they don't ask nicely for everyone else to leave.
Stop posting. Not just in this thread but on Era in general. Just go away.
Man, America just seems less and less impressive the more you see people cowering behind it.
He was also online before the thread originally got locked and while people were tagging him.
Wait what? Never heard he laughed at his ex-girlfriend dying. Boogie sure has fell into a pit of despicable that rivals the earths gravity well.
You said he was dumb and didn't know what his points really are because he is purely reacting to others. That is giving him a pass that I do not think he deserves.
The usual things you'd expect him to say when he's in his " nice" persona. How he treats them in real life, however, is another matter entirely.
Representation is important, folks want to see what they see in the mirror reflected in gaming.
Because people are posting in it? What is the point of your thread whining?
Why shouldn't it be, closing it just helps people ignore Boogie's behaviour.
tbh, as someone with a complicated relationship with an abusive parent, i cannot stand the caping that happens every single time a boogie thread pops up. it's insulting.
i have a sliver of empathy left for the guy. very small, almost microscopic, but still, a sliver. abuse fucks you up. i know that.
but that's no excuse for being a horrible human being. child abuse survivors aren't sad, small, uncontrollable children who aren't responsible for their actions. they still have agency. they still choose. and boogie chose to spill his sister's trauma for everyone to see, and then wish her rapist had a better life. boogie chose to laugh at his ex girlfriend dying of cancer. boogie chose to weaponize suicide back in the sunken place.
what happened to him was awful, but what we do after abuse is up to us. boogie chose to crystallize his grief into raging misogyny and spineless cowardice.
no excuses.
i have a sliver of empathy left for the guy. very small, almost microscopic, but still, a sliver. abuse fucks you up. i know that.
but that's no excuse for being a horrible human being. child abuse survivors aren't sad, small, uncontrollable children who aren't responsible for their actions. they still have agency. they still choose. and boogie chose to spill his sister's trauma for everyone to see, and then wish her rapist had a better life. boogie chose to laugh at his ex girlfriend dying of cancer. boogie chose to weaponize suicide back in the sunken place.
what happened to him was awful, but what we do after abuse is up to us. boogie chose to crystallize his grief into raging misogyny and spineless cowardice.
no excuses.
I don't know if it should be closed but I thought it was re-opened to discuss the role of the VGA's and maybe what they should or should not do in this situation. If it's just another shit on Boogie for his daily garbage tweets thread then not sure there is a point because I think the majority of people here already know how bad his opinions are.
Yeah i remember that poster also, malicious little toad, i hope he gets perma.
You got dogpiled pretty hard, and fuck everyone who responded to you like an asshole.
Folks here are more concerned with getting internet points for snark, which is evident in how they responded to a self confessed victim of abuse. I don't agree with your mindset in your initial post, but thank you for sharing your opinion and experience.
So him getting millions of eye balls during the award show is fine but bringing attention to why it is a horrible is a going too far?
Also, for the record, aren't you free to simply "ignore" this thread under the new update?
- Status