Evidently on a posting tear today. What happens when you’re stuck in a Dr.'s waiting room, I guess…

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    The problem is, this never needed to grow to the point where some people call it that. Some people not wanting to buy games a group of people worked on doesn’t make it a hate campaign; but calling them out in an attempt to shut them down eventually did turn it into one, a one with way more people’s support at that.

    Their Steam curator page used to have around 2000 followers until all those articles calling them out were published, and literally no one gives shits about curators in the first place. Now? They have 250k, and some people started giving shit about it.

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      Lol, no one’s putting a gun to people’s heads to make them act bigoted. If your response to being accused of racism is “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you racism!” then you’re just showing your true colors.

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        They also leave out half of the story: The whole thing already started in October. After months of harassment one of the employees snapped and called their shit out. But they leave that part out, claim they got attacked out of nowhere and play the victims.

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        Think about it this way - those 248k people who respond to seeing an article accusing a group of racism with “sign me up”, are not the same people being accused to begin with.

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      Honestly, i have no qualms with the original steam curator. All he did was point out that SBI was involved in the game or not. People have the right to buy or not buy a product for whatever reason. The curator and its group would have remained obscure and practically irrelevant if one SBI employee didn’t call for harassment against Kabrutus on twitter. All they had to do was to let people quietly not buy games they were not interested in but they called for mob justice on the curator. And i can’t help giving the gamer side just a tiny drop of legitimacy this time because every article on the whole debacle forgets that this is what sparked the fire.