KtotheIMMY wrote:
I'm glad I haven't seen the anti-semitic SS clan around yet. I wonder what they think about the african-american characters in BF2: support, anti-tank, and assault. Do they only play the "white" kits?
Glad to hear there's a nice SS clan which has nothing to do with anti-semiticism.
*shrug*
It all went down hill the day we introduced hicks to computing and AOL introduced them to the internet.
Growing up in Portland (Oregon), my first (and only, really) experiences witnessing racial and homophobic comments were in CounterStrike. It was rather jarring to see how many inbred young people out there throw around comments about blacks, jews, gays and anything else. Frankly, it's astonishing that in 2005 anyone could even care enough to have any sort of hatred (though I suspect for most, it's not so much hatred of any group of people as it is a learned way from their friends and family to vent their frustration in the most ignorant of ways).
The only other experience I've ever had was this hot (much younger) girl I was dating and living with a couple years ago that started using racist comments out of nowhere. I brought it up after about two days and she spewed some of the most ignorant bullshit I'd ever heard. Broke up and kicked her out the next day. The only thing I hate more than prejudiced dickwads (on or off line) are those who befriend or date them and excuse their relationship with the person with "well, I don't agree with how they feel or what they say, but they're nice to me and other than hating everyone who is different from them - they're a really good person".
On the bright side, anyone who is too busy espousing their ignorant rhetoric online (especially in a videogame) probably does not posess the social proclivity to ever have the opportunity to breed.