Makes sense, Maurice.
It's just the counter-movement to Cancel Culture and the like, because everyone is now fed up with the nonsense.
I would also advise you to take a more nuanced view of the whole thing, especially since you're promoting yourself as a journalist, but then you're displaying a pretty narrow-minded view and obviously not questioning for a second what's actually happening. And that's exactly what you should be able to expect from a journalist!
Just because you haven't been personally affected by Cancel Culture and the like doesn't mean that there hasn't been and still isn't a lot of bullshit going on. And it's always only a matter of time before it hits you.
Remember this:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
Instead of letting artists be artists, Hollywood and (almost) all game developers on the West Coast have found it right to use movies and video games to impose their own political views on others. If you now counter that this is not the case, I expect you as a journalist to do proper research.
And at the same time, it has become normal to always point the finger at others. Others who perhaps also think differently to us. Instead of letting others be different and also listening to them, they are slapped in the face. It's a shame to be reminded of the old Nazi methods.
Anyone who doesn't play along is portrayed as a fool and, ideally, these people should be exposed, fired and their careers ruined.
That has been the modus operandi over the last few years and I know enough people who have been affected by this, whose careers have been ruined because of trivialities and false reports and who are still suffering from it today. You obviously don't and that's why you don't allow yourself to have a more open perspective.
The fact that you stand there and have 0 empathy in this regard is unfortunately not very meaningful either and unfortunately shows a lot of ignorance.
Let's look at it critically: you don't do it any differently at Gamestar. Instead of cleaning up after your own backyard, you're just throwing around the "We report and earn money from our articles, but be careful, those guys over there are really bad fingers!" club, just so that the spotlight never falls on you and you keep yourselves in line.
And that's exactly why we turned off the tap for you, because we consider something like that morally extremely questionable and cannot and do not want to support it.
There is no research, getting a journalistic picture yourself is obviously too much work, after all, the next clickbait article has to be ready the next day. Unfortunately, young journalists like you have never known anything else. The more outrage you generate, the more clicks you get and that's how you earn your bread - it doesn't matter that you harm others in the process, after all WE are the good guys!
I hope for you that in future you can go through the world a little more critically and openly and actually examine both sides instead of joining one side and then spouting their propaganda.
