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I still feel shame today that I was ever invested in G*mergate. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Granted it was during a bleak period of my life when I was so reactionary. But my god, to think these goobers are still around today, still doing racism and sexism, just moving from target to target to take out the impotent rage on.

Just reminded of it today with the "discourse" of Yasuke being in Ass Creed and G*mers changing any woman not white and waifish with AI.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unlearning the sheer amount of propaganda laid upon me from birth took effort, and a whole lot of grass touching. Talking to women, POC, marginalized people, queer people. Each layer of propaganda built over me peeled off, and with each peel came more and more shame at my former self. However, with each peel came more weight coming off my shoulders, renewed clarity, and new friends and eventual comrades.

This was my trajectory too. I went through a lot of rehabs and psych ward visits for my alcoholism that radicalized me and allowed me the chance to meet people very different from myself.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I truly believe it's the best path to deprogramming people. Exposure works. It's easy to dehumanize others until you work and study alongside them, until they become just as human as you.

It's also a major factor for anti-immigrant rhetoric and redlining, to keep that fascism festering.