Jim isn't always the nicest of people, but for most of those tweets he's either not directly involving the abusee in the verbal abuse (woman in checkout lane who will likely never read his twitter, etc) or he's punching upward instead of down. Doesn't really excuse him being vulgar and, frankly, idiotic, but apart from a few examples there he's at least avoided being directly abusive, and that's mostly what I care about. That's why I only got angry at Jontron when he told one of his fans he was "retarded" and not when he called the PS4 or whatever it was "retarded".
Wasn't that blacklisting thing over a guy outting a transwoman or something? Or am I thinking of something else?
SJWs may not be the main issue of GG but they are one of the causes and if you ask me they're a cancer to the industry. All most all of the glorified "journalists" are SJWs who don't write about games anymore but social issues in games (e.g. like how there isn't enough token minorities no matter how unfitting they are to the game).
The reason SJWs are a problem to the video game industry or any other artistic medium is their censorship of creativity. They want to force artist and writers through shaming and harassment to into being politically correct instead of allowing them to do what they want as a creator and not to let their work be objectively criticized by the public for what it's worth.
Just to give you an idea of what I'm trying to say here are some recent examples of SJWs at work.
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2's developers were criticized for having Dracula attack a woman and drinking her blood with them saying that it was allusion of rape despite the fact that vampires are suppose to be fucking evil and for years had been portrayed as biting the opposite sex in a usually sexual manner in every medium.
- Tomodachi Life panned and boycotted or not including gay marriage despite the fact that it was a game already released in Japan a year earlier and now because of the backlash Nintendo might not release the sequel in the west.
- Hatred had it's trailer released it was decried by them saying that the game is one of the worst in history and that it should not be released for it is too violent and offensive, despite the fact that games as violent had been released before like Postal 1&2 and also did nothing but boost awareness for it.
- Bayonetta was criticized for the design of the main character for being objectifying to women with them saying that only a man could have made such a character, once again getting everything wrong once you learn that Bayonetta's designer, Mari Shimazaki a woman, has said that she made the character sexualized because Bayonetta was power fantasy to her.
- Divinity Original Sin was attack while it was in kickstarter for having the female character's midriff exposed and the artist of the game were harassed to the point that they were forced to change the main character's clothes just the suit the SJW vocal minority.
I could go on with this, the fact of the matter is that SJWs are killing creativity by forcing artist to censor their work because they are "offended". This is happening everywhere SJWs can pop their heads into the discussion from Video games, Table tops, books, movies, cartoons, and any ideology that gets coped by them like atheism.
Yes it would be good if we can move past them on GG but they will keep forcing themselves into the argument no matter what we do because the journos are SJWs themselves or at least hiding behind them.
