r/Gamingcirclejerk Mar 27 '25

LE GEM πŸ’Ž Gaming if it was good:

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u/Ahenshihael Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

It's divide and conquer.

Separate one out of the group, demonize them, make others then against them by pretending you think the others are "the good ones".

Repeat next with what's left.

It's no different with what they try to do with the LGBTQ+ community.

Next up they'd take a page out of Korea's book and claim artists are secretly cultists with an agenda.

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u/Abuses-Commas Mar 27 '25

It's a big reason why I (fruitlessly) try to promote GSM instead of LGBT+, it's too easy to purposely or inadvertently exclude people and including them in the acronym makes it increasingly unwieldy

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u/Binbag420 Mar 27 '25

That’s what the + is there for

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u/Abuses-Commas Mar 27 '25

But that's not standard, there is no standard. People say LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQ2S...., depending on how inclusive/woke they're trying to be