Ilovechocolatemilk said:
Can we please talk about how ridiculous outrage culture has become? Whatever happened to, "If I don't like something, I won't play it." Why does a minority of people who are perpetually offended by everything get to dictate what is and is not sold?
has become? It's always been this way, people have bitched about and tried to eliminate things they don't like for centuries. The internet just makes it more visible because it gives every person on the planet at least some form of public platform that anyone on the planet with a computer can see. It's really not that different today than the way its always been, just more people with more public platforms.
Before this, it was people bitching about things like Sonic's eyes being the wrong color, or bitching about not liking CoD and how it should be destroyed and go away. Before that it was people bitching about consoles and sending death threats to Sony and Nintendo over changes to the N64 and PSone, whilst mainstream culture in North America was concerned about banning violent video games. Before that, it was banning D&D and comic books because they offended middle America. Before that, it was people being offended about rock & roll music whilst using control and government pressure to manage media during the red scare. Before that it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle receiving threats against his life for offending people by killing off Sherlock Holmes.
And so on and so forth in that fashion, there is no "outrage culture", Western culture has always been outraged at something and sought to destroy it or change it to make it less offensive. If anything we've gotten better about managing our outrage, since we used to just go straight to the government to ban things that outraged us. And before that, anything that outraged a group of people tended to get you run out of town, or literally tarred and feathered. And before that, if you outraged a group of people they tended to just burn your stuff and kill you.
I'll take the current impotent internet outrage and lazy Twitter hashtag "outrage" over the kind of stuff we used to do to things that offended us any day of the week. At least we don't challenge people that offend us to duels to the death anymore, although American politicians dueling with pistols over attack ads like the Hamilton-Burr duel in the 1800's might be entertaining to watch.
