YOU ARE said:
-Male
-Age 15-25
-Straight
-Grew up somewhere in the middle class playing tons of video games
-Above-average intelligence but and underachiever
-Racist to some degree
-Non-Religious
Sounds about right except for the straight part, that I'm not really an underachiever ... More like an .. Achiever?
And also I'm opposed racism. In the way that that makes sense, of course. I mean, I know that racism is often something subconscious, and that it happens automatically. To me as well, I'll admit that - but that counts for general discriminating. Uhm .... But whenever I find myself hearing someone openly and purpously being racist. Hang on, let us just go for discriminating, as this is true for all sorts of discrimination. Anyhow - whenever I'm witnessing that event, I will tell them off. I will make it clear that I for one will not stand for this
And the thing about that is that I know I may not stop the discrimination. Not even the currently ongoing one. And I surely won't stop that person from discriminating again. But I will voice an opinion. And people will know that that's my opinion on the matter. Even more importantly - people will know that there's one more around sharing their view on this matter. And that's one of the most important things about fighting discrimination - letting people know how many oppose it. Discrimination, that is.
Because when this person finds out he/she's not the only one opposing discrimination, that person might head out and voice it's opinion the next time the possibility rises. And so the cycle goes on. Soon, the opposers of discrimination will outnumber the discriminators, and they'll force them to obey common sense. I know this may be a bit far fetched, but it's my dream.
Uh .... So yeah. In short, I guess I'm a bit racist ...
And a anecdote. "games could be anything from "hide-and-seek" to video games. In that sense, everyone has played them at least some =P
LostAlone said:
This sounds like the kind of rampant generalization that astrology and similar stuff puts out.
My thoughts exactly! But .. To be fair ... He did say it was a form of generalization =P
And about the gay/bi group of gamers ...
I'm fairly certain there's allready a site an forum for that called "Gaymers" ... But yeah! Totally, dude! I'm in ^^