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Steam allowing curators to promote homophobia. (lemmy.zip)

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

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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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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 6 days ago

time to report this to valve

[-] MentalEdge@lemmy.world 155 points 1 week ago

With that absolutely pathetic follower count I'm not too surprised it's still going under the radar.

Compared to curators that people actually care about, that's a fraction of a fraction.

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[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 120 points 1 week ago

It’s funny how they can never define “woke” when asked but have no problem labeling any sort of inclusion as woke when they make a list of woke things. To them, woke is just the safe word to say instead of the slurs they want to say.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 45 points 1 week ago

Anything that isn't a straight white male = woke.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Even that's woke, according to their definition.

"Straight"—sexuality = woke "White"—race = woke "Male"—gender = woke

I guess games just can't have any characters in them at all anymore, in case one of them has a race or a gender that gets referenced.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here’s the groups definition - it’s linked in one of the forums. Your instance might filter some words:

> Wokeness and left-wing: Economic leftism isn't woke according to this list, unless there's A LOT of unskippable leftism. Race (including unchecked third-world immigration and indigenous nonsense) sexuality (I'm a strong woman who need no man) and tranny (muh gender identity) nonsense (non to mention '''non-binary''') are woke. Putting removeds everywhere where it doesn't make sense is woke. On-the-nose allegories to removeds and trannies are woke (such as Deus Ex: Mankind Divided). Telling wokeists to fuck off is based for a company. Ignoring them is based too. Using pre-2008 cultural norms within the game that was released after 2012 is good. Obama is a war criminal as much as Bush or even worse. If you disagree, you're misinformed or a shitlib. This is meant as a non-woke statement. Excusing him on the basis of being a removed or half-removed is somewhat woke. Woman's suffrage from 17th century to 2023 isn't woke. At worst (in case of heavy-handed pandering) it's mildly woke.

[-] xanu@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Wow. I thought to myself surely they would be using some blatant dog whistle for the removed, but nope, steam is fully letting them rate games negatively by using every slur in the book.

This definitely looks much worse for steam than any of these sad, lifeless homunculi. I reported them and made note about how letting this group continue looks awful for steam and not taking action reads as endorsement.

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[-] CTDummy@lemm.ee 96 points 1 week ago

Don’t worry guys, I’ll sift through all this gay hentai so you guys don’t have to I’m a hero!

Thanks lad, can’t wait for you to find all the airport toilets that should be avoided so I don’t accidentally wander my way into a BJ.

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 46 points 1 week ago

I keep telling all these gay men to stop sucking my cock but they just won’t! I’m really annoyed about it!

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 89 points 1 week ago

NOT RECOMMENDED

[...] Non-binary character option.

HoW dArE tHeY GiVe Me OpTiOnS?!

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 73 points 1 week ago

Some of their reviews are so petty that I want to believe it's satire (though I know it's not). Game has a girl that wants to be an astrophysicist? Woke. PCs fighting equally well regardless of gender? Woke. Literally any POC in the game at all? Woke.

These people are so fucking pathetic and hateful, it's mind boggling. I struggle to imagine how they get through a single day without passing out from the shock of seeing all the "woke" things around them.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 1 week ago

I WENT OUTSIDE THE OTHER DAY MATE AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT I SAW???

A FUCKING RAINBOW MATE, RIGHT THERE IN THE SKY!!!

WHERE KIDDIES COULD SEE IT!!!

FUCKING WOKEYS!!! THEY MADE THE FUCKING SKY GAY!!!

😠 😠 😠

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[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 week ago

Anyone else using this to find new """woke""" games to play? (After reporting for bigotry, of course)

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago

I don't see this as an issue, I see it as a recommendation list.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago

Sadly I expect this kinda shit to be normal

I used to get various death threats because of a trans flag in my profile, it's been replaced by spam scammers
When they didn't take down the Rittenhouse game that stung a bit...

[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago

These weirdos even think there's an LGBTQ character and boom, instantly triggered. Bonus points for a minority existing as anything else but a target.

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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

LGBT is a tag on steam so it's really redundant, bigots can just filter the tag on their account page.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

They don't want to filter it for themselves, they want to filter it for everybody or better yet, stop it being produced in the first place. They make their tantrums as public as they can for a reason.

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