Snotnarok said:
AngloDoom said:
Snotnarok said:
...So your argument is that you've never experienced racism for being British, so it must be a very small factor yet everyone here mentioned it?
Yes, I know we all have this mindset on the Escapist of 'Grow a thicker skin', but I think that's the wrong attitude to take. Why should I be expected to re-evaluate my expectations and etiquette because the obnoxious minority once again ruin it for the majority?
I personally use the mute button, but when you instruct someone to 'grow a thicker skin' (altering their personality) it always strikes me as odd that people don't pull the arseholes aside and say 'stop being a prick' (altering their personality). Why do we have to tailor our experiences online to suit the dickheads of society?
Either way, I just think the English are less inclined to talk online simply because we've got more of an aloof culture. There's little you can do about that, really. While I think online play can be improved through the mic, I'd say nine out of ten times it just ends up with people hurling abuse, playing shite music, or screaming whenever they get killed as if real bullets ripped through their flesh.
I'm going to guess you glanced over my post because if British racism and American racism is different it's news to me.
I said grow a thicker skin because everyone on the net will experience racism, and it's not exactly hard to dodge, most of the time you just mute and ignore, or you can leave the server or boot people, there's options instead of most people just saying it's the Americans fault. I say you glanced over my post because, I said that I was booted from several games just because I'm American. So no I've not encountered British racism toward me, I've experienced racism toward Americans which is what many here are posting is at fault. So yes I've experienced racism for being from a country, is it bad that they do it? Yes, should we have to suffer? No. But do we? Yes. So the solution is use the tools at hand to get around it.
My point is, there's assholes from every country, I've had Russians grief in TF2 keeping our spawn doors closed, do I hate Russians? No I informed a mod, he removed them and we went on playing.
Racism pisses me off and to see so many people saying "it's because the Americans I don't talk" just annoys me, it could have been any country and it would have pissed me off, generalizing an entire country is irritating to me.
The internet is full of idiots from all different countries, it's also got a lot of friendly people.
I totally agree with you, arseholes and nice people exist in every country. I never once blamed America for the arseholes on the internet, I was making a general comment over why people should have to put up with it. We all have this mentality of it being inevitable that abuse will occur, so we should become more thick-skinned. Why advice people on becoming more insensitive, when you could advice people who are dickheads not to be? It's the rule of obnoxious minority overruling the majority of decent people once more. If we have an attitude of 'everyone should just put up with that one prick on the server', then the one prick is the winner. If we had an attitude of 'lets punish that one prick on the server', it would be less beneficial to be said prick.
I wasn't trying to intone that you've never received racism through the internet, I'd believe you receive less than a British person simply because there are more Americans than English and therefore proportionately more racist Americans.
While I agree people should just use the 'Ignore' button for the most part, people aren't just limited to talking on a mic in games. This is more a general rant over how it seems people bend over backwards to avoid troublemakers, when there should be more a mentality of "this guy is being a griefer and ruining our game, lets kill the fucker", rather than a mentality of "lets ignore him, but still have an impact on our game".
No worries, I'm not taking on an assault at you, more a general rant at teh_intarwebs. It's 7am here, I haven't slept for a long while, so if my sentences are disjointed and I seem to have misinterpreted, while it is no excuse, I hope you can understand.
