Warzone Non Stop Virtue Signaling

[AzChupacabra]

Dear Activision,

I Wouldn't believe you if you told me I was the only one of your millions of subscribers who have grown weary with the non stop virtue signaling most of our lives have become.

Believe it or not, not all of us are potential terrorists you feel socially compelled to placate.

I'm betting there are millions of us who just log in to blow off steam, (used to) take a moment out away from the constant background noise of the world, and just enjoy a game of Oneupmanship. Some of us are tremendously talented, while others can be easily beaten by a 6 year old kid. But we all come here to have fun. To get that adrenaline rush. To enjoy safe competition.

Some of us don't need to be reminded "Black Lives Matter" in not just one, but several opening screens. By my random count throughout my day today, I've been browbeaten with "Black Lives Matter" no less than 76 times. And it isn't even quite 7PM.

Must I be reminded (yet again), "Black Lives Matter" several more times as I log into the game where I go to escape all this?

 

[ProjectMyhm4130]

Yeah I'm sick of it too.
I've also heard that microsoft have donated £150,000 to blm and the stores effected by the riots of blm.
You couldn't make this shit up.

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Yeah I'm sick of it too.
I've also heard that microsoft have donated £150,000 to blm and the stores effected by the riots of blm.
You couldn't make this shit up.

When things like this happen there are a lot of people crying out for big business to do something to help. But the moment they do something they get criticized for it.

I'm not going to try and defend Microsoft for dipping into their pockets to make a donation. Just pointing out that both taking action and not taking action would be met with the same levels of disapproval.

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[CMCFLYYY]

've also heard that microsoft have donated £150,000 to blm and the stores effected by the riots of blm.
You couldn't make this shit up.

How is this a bad thing??

 

[AzChupacabra]

How is this a bad thing??

Because it furthers the premise of racial division in our Country. All lives matter. We are all Americans.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Because it furthers the premise of racial division in our Country. All lives matter. We are all Americans.

Exactly!! Could not have said it better myself.. Although I spent a lot of photons trying..

Institutionalized racism is virtually dead in this country.. It died the day we elected a black American as President Of The United States...

The *ONLY* institutionalized racism that still exists in the US is Affirmative Action...

 

[CMCFLYYY]

Institutionalized racism is virtually dead in this country.. It died the day we elected a black American as President Of The United States...

The *ONLY* institutionalized racism that still exists in the US is Affirmative Action...

Yea uhh, no. Maybe if you're institutionalized to mean government sanctioned, then sure. But institutionalized also means just "established in practice or custom". And I can tell you, living in the Southeast, there are A LOT of people both young and old who grew up and continue to practice these established customs. These kinds of people are what leads to the obvious racism like white supremacy rallies, flying Confederate flags, and hunting down innocent teens and murdering them in the street. But also the less obvious types like managers who would rather die than hire a black person to a meaningful job, the types who hire illegals to do their borderline slave labor and then complain on social media that illegals are taking American jobs, and the types who protested stay-at-home orders for COVID (the gubmit can't tell me what to do!) but now deride African Americans for not listening to stay-at-home orders when it's related to protesting.

Because it furthers the premise of racial division in our Country. All lives matter. We are all Americans.

As I've seen elsewhere, the best way to describe this is using a metaphor from the Bible. When you have 100 sheep and 1 of them goes missing, you don't sit idle and say "well, all sheep lives matter". No, you go looking for the one that is lost. Because the lost sheep is the one that needs your help at the moment.

Right now, African Americans are the lost sheep of our country. They have been downtrodden by economic and social/racial customs since they were freed from outright slavery. They are not on an equal economic playing field, which is what Affirmative Action [poorly] tries to correct.

I fully agree, in the grand scheme of things, all lives are equal and all lives do matter. But right now, given the actions of certain peoples in this country, "black" lives are the ones who need our help right now.

 

[AzChupacabra]

Yea uhh, no. Maybe if you're institutionalized to mean government sanctioned, then sure. But institutionalized also means just "established in practice or custom". And I can tell you, living in the Southeast, there are A LOT of people both young and old who grew up and continue to practice these established customs. These kinds of people are what leads to the obvious racism like white supremacy rallies, flying Confederate flags, and hunting down innocent teens and murdering them in the street. But also the less obvious types like managers who would rather die than hire a black person to a meaningful job, the types who hire illegals to do their borderline slave labor and then complain on social media that illegals are taking American jobs, and the types who protested stay-at-home orders for COVID (the gubmit can't tell me what to do!) but now deride African Americans for not listening to stay-at-home orders when it's related to protesting.



As I've seen elsewhere, the best way to describe this is using a metaphor from the Bible. When you have 100 sheep and 1 of them goes missing, you don't sit idle and say "well, all sheep lives matter". No, you go looking for the one that is lost. Because the lost sheep is the one that needs your help at the moment.

Right now, African Americans are the lost sheep of our country. They have been downtrodden by economic and social/racial customs since they were freed from outright slavery. They are not on an equal economic playing field, which is what Affirmative Action [poorly] tries to correct.

I fully agree, in the grand scheme of things, all lives are equal and all lives do matter. But right now, given the actions of certain peoples in this country, "black" lives are the ones who need our help right now.

Very Progressive of you. Unfortunately, real data does not agree with your premise.
Unfortunately, the Progressive answer to this debilitating problem is programs like Affirmative Action, ignoring the reality of Black propensity for violence and crime, pretending Black on White crime isn't grossly over-represented, pretending the complete destruction of traditional Black families hasn't occurred....etc. And this is made even more preposterous by virtue signaling White Liberals who feel making a public display of getting on their knees and begging Blacks for forgiveness is going to solve the problem.
You may as well give Black COD players 100x power bullets and 100x power armor plates in order to "level the playing field". Very quickly, you'd find no one but Blacks willing to play the game.
The real solution lies in us trying to achieve Martin Luther King's dream of a truly colorblind society.

Where Race factors into nothing.

 

[CMCFLYYY]

Very Progressive of you. Unfortunately, real data does not agree with your premise.
Unfortunately, the Progressive answer to this debilitating problem is programs like Affirmative Action, ignoring the reality of Black propensity for violence and crime, pretending Black on White crime isn't grossly over-represented, pretending the complete destruction of traditional Black families hasn't occurred....etc. And this is made even more preposterous by virtue signaling White Liberals who feel making a public display of getting on their knees and begging Blacks for forgiveness is going to solve the problem.
You may as well give Black COD players 100x power bullets and 100x power armor plates in order to "level the playing field". Very quickly, you'd find no one but Blacks willing to play the game.
The real solution lies in us trying to achieve Martin Luther King's dream of a truly colorblind society.

Where Race factors into nothing.

At no point am I begging for forgiveness from African Americans. Stating that they deserve equal economic opportunity and equal treatment in the eyes of the justice system is not begging for forgiveness. Yes we'd like to live in a colorblind society, but when a large portion of your population still sees ANY people of color as less than whites, that isn't going to happen naturally. If you firmly believe they are equal in the eyes of the justice system, you are burying your head in the sand because "the problem isn't affecting you".

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

My response...

Institutionalized Racism...

" But institutionalized also means just "established in practice or custom" In my case I am referring to institutionalized racism as established in practice or custom by any given government or commercial or traditional entity.. There will always be racist individuals, just like there will...

www.codforums.com

 

[Carlos]

I'll go ahead and lock this one. Please respect each other, and calmly discuss the subject at hand. Thanks.