Let's talk about the epidemic of racism in gaming

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Its clear racism is a huge problem in gaming. I wont even go online anymore on the Xbox or PS4 due to constant barrage of racial epiteths that are allowed to fly freely on the online gaming services. I actually love the nintendo approach, as voice chat is demphasized.

How many racist incidents have you seen or been apart of while online?

And if you're a racist troll, please tell us what motivates you to continue with the racist antics.

Inquiring minds want to know..

 

[Red Shield]

The voice chat is not like it was back in the 360 days. I guess party/private chat killed alotta that shyt

 

[Cladyclad]

I been in two

 

[tru_m.a.c]

The voice chat is not like it was back in the 360 days. I guess party/private chat killed alotta that shyt

Yeah when I first started playing xbox live when it came out that shyt was atrocious. You'd be in the lobby and 14 year old white boys would just be yelling the n word during the entire waiting period or act like they were jerking off.

shyt was wack and disgusting.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Its clear racism is a huge problem in gaming. I wont even go online anymore on the Xbox or PS4 due to constant barrage of racial epiteths that are allowed to fly freely on the online gaming services. I actually love the nintendo approach, as voice chat is demphasized.

How many racist incidents have you seen or been apart of while online?

And if you're a racist troll, please tell us what motivates you to continue with the racist antics.

Inquiring minds want to know..

Gears horde mode was my shyt but when I played TDM on Gears 3 I was always got a FU ****** message from some random white kid/man. Or they'll shout epithets over the mics. I always wondered how they knew I was black, then I remembered my avatar.


Much of the gaming community who post on forums other than here have a racist undertone. If a game is released that has a black man as the protagonist, you can guarantee salty 30+ white men will be online to bytch about it.

 

[Anti-Anime]

when u stay serving these cac nerds in online games tho call me all types of n words i still rekt u cac

 

[Megadeus]

Why ask questions you already know the answer to?

Theyre intimidated, emasculated fascinated by and obsessed with us. We're like some rare mystical creature to them. The opportunity to yell racial slurs out their own mouth at a breh and get away with it with zero repurcussions, is a once in a lifetime dream come true for these people. Gaming is literally the only place IN LIFE that these clowns can do this really if you think about it.

Havent been in any but ive witnessed multiple times. If you dont already have gamer freinds just find cool people and private party chat with them, because you know the services arent going to do anything about it.

 

[Killer Instinct]

The average (white) male gamers are some of the most obnoxious and repulsive human beings (and I used the words "human beings" loosley) on planet earth. It's not all and some of the most cordial gamers I've befriended online were white, but they're too far and in between for it to be a case of this sort of thing being the exception as opposed to the rule. I don't even browse certain gaming boards anymore because of the clear radicalization of these social recluses. I actually don't do much online gaming and haven't in years, in small part due to how grating the expierence got with the average sexually frustrated vagabond that's most common in these games. It's honestly to the degree that it's simply more annoying and boring than anything. If I do game via multiplayer (which isn't often since I much prefer to game in solitude when I have the time to pick up the controller) it's with friends on my list.

I don't know, man.

The "inherently" thing used to be said in jest, but there's really something to it. You see this not only from the dejected geek whom can't handle losing in CoD or 2k, but also in how such a portion of that particular demographic starts cutting their wrists and issuing death threat & boycotts anytime the protagonist is anything other than a white male. They really, really seem determined that they will not coexist with "others" and it is always consistently the same demographic. Eventually, you have to believe the bubble will pop and push back will begin.


I think we're already seeing it from developers with the influx of games featuring more minority protagonist -- especially female. It's almost a blatant middle finger to that demo and quite frankly, it's long overdue, but it certainly isn't enough. To see this issue handled entirely, the chief issue will need to be addressed, and we are a good ways away from the U.S. getting close to owning up to its' history and
doing so. The speech exhibited online is simply a symptom of a much deadlier disease. Until that cancer is addressed, those symptoms won't really go anywhere and the best you could hope for is remission.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

Tbh I don't remember being called any racist stuff back when I played Cod or Battlefield online. Then again, I played on french/european servers so I think this is more of an American/anglosaxon thing.

On forums though it is everywhere, whether they be american or french. Videogames forums tend to concentrate recluses that don't engage with other people in general, without even talking about minorities. So of course their vision is filled with stereotypes that become bigger once repeated in these echoes chambers.

If you combine that with the facts that recluses need scapegoats for their own personal failures, that they want to be edgy to differentiate themselves from what they perceive are mainstream opinions and the way jokes/memes always become real in these spaces, then you have a perfect cocktail to create misogyny/racism filled individuals. Individuals that enter that particular community very early (towards 10-12 years old, formative years) and brew these ideas and concepts until they become adults and start to involve in politics.

And all that without talking about how anonymity in a white supremacist society allows for white supremacist ideas and theories to naturally emerge and flourish, downlow at first, then more visibly (the Ice Poseidon dude and plenty others gamers/alt-right people).

Also wanted to talk about the role science and pseudo-intellectualism play in that but you get the picture.

 

[Serious]

I've playing with 2k on mute for a minute. There's nothing really life changing that a 14 year old can converse with me anyway.

I actually use that time to listen to the news or random podcast, since I can't sit still and watch / listen to a podcast....

The reason why these people lash out anyways, is a cry for attention. The remedy is simple ignore their ass.

 

[Truetalk]

I used to go back and forth saying racial things towards whites and other races in response to what they would say but yelling online is p*ssy bring it in real life

 

[Airtrack360]

Public Voice Chat

 

[KillbertArenas]

Last month

A white kid called my nephew a nigg in a DM on Xbox Live..

My nephew responds and calls the white kid a retard...they suspend nephew for a week...nothing happened to white kid

As for me...I would get called a nigg multiple times a day when I used my mic playing MW2 and Madden on 360.

From then, I stopped using a mic

 

[feelosofer]

It's easy to say or type racist shyt from the safety of mom's basement. I don't think its as bad in PC gaming only because mods boot people with the quickness but it's crazy.

 

[Liquid]

It's easy to say or type racist shyt from the safety of mom's basement. I don't think its as bad in PC gaming only because mods boot people with the quickness but it's crazy.

Different class of gamer on the pc for the most part