Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Reminder that every decade, conservatives whined about something.
2010s. Gay marriage.
2000s. Gay representation on TV.
90s. Video games. Rap music.
70s. Rock music. And interracial marriage?
60s. Hippy culture. Being antiwar.
50s. Fucking hips shaking on TV?
You forgot “children being taught evolution”, that was a pretty big one. Also birth control pills, which many of them are still fuming over.
You can also keep going back to when they were insisting radio would rot children’s brains or even further back to when they opposed electrification.
But at least electricity can kill you. Modern reactionaries take entitled whining to a whole new level, growing physically violent because there’s people out there who are unhappy with the genitals they were born with.
I guess we’ll never understand the horror of having an extra checkbox in a character creator that they have to look at (but not click, since it’s already what they want by default).
Anyway, fuck em. They can either accept that society is going to treat minorities with basic human decency or they can stare at the wall for 8 hours a day waiting for new far-right approved content. It’s their live to piss away.
Scopes has entered the chat
And by the following decade they had been proven to be not just wrong, but actively impeding basic human decency
Conservatives have been on the wrong side of every major societal improvement, every major argument, on every major thing.
Religion thrives the most when people are ashamed of what they like.
Maybe swap “gay people existing” for “gay people dying in droves while the government ignored it”
Both sides were against all of that in those times, you’re clearly young.
The comment had said “conservatives” which is true. Only recently did Democrats start leaning more towards progressivism, and even then they are still mostly a Centrist party
It actually started with the Southern Strategy in the 70s when the Repuvlican party decided to be the party of white resentment. There was a great reshuffling after that into right/ progressive.
I mean right, I’m just saying that the general political landscape didn’t flip overnight on some evening in 1976 or whatever. It was a slow shift over the back quarter of the last century culminating in our more modern party structure.
Conservatives still exist on the Democratic side of the aisle today, but there’s less of them than 5 years ago and that was less than 10 years ago etc etc.
I’m clearly young at 40 years old.