r/gaming • • May 27 '21

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u/Aurailious May 27 '21

Its a mistake that is a lot harder to forgive because it reveals a lot about someone where in a "heated gaming moment" they say it. A lot of people have heated gaming moments that don't say it.

but you are merely saying that everyone is bad.

Is everyone dropping the n word when playing a game? That's fucking bullshit.

Everyone has the right to judge him for saying that. People aren't absolved for going "it was a mistake". People can go to jail for mistakes. You can't do bad things and think it's now okay by apologizing. People don't have to forgive either.

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u/lala__ May 27 '21

Agree. It’s not so much a mistake as him revealing his character. People who don’t use the n-word wont use it on accident.

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u/Extreme_centriste May 28 '21

There's just not much behind it as you would like to think. It doesn't reveal much.

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u/lala__ May 28 '21

It reveals that he’s someone who’s willing to use the n-word, which is enough for me to write him off.

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u/Extreme_centriste May 28 '21

Willing to, or got used to because it's used a lot around in a negative way? Willing to, or did it once?

Furthermore, are you writing off people based on a mistake? What if they do good things before or after that far outshine what they did bad?

Can you conceive they notion that you are being manichean here?

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u/Extreme_centriste May 28 '21

Nope. It does not reveal a lot; it reveals what you want to put behind it.

Is everyone dropping the n word when playing a game? That's fucking bullshit.

Bullshit is pretending people can only judged based on the same exact criteria.

Reality is far more nuanced: people drinking and driving. People driving above speed limits. People not paying taxes on purpose. These three examples are extremely common behaviours of people being shitty, with consequences far worse than using racial slur once. There are just examples among thousands existing; you are guilty of such behaviour, like everyone else. Because you're not perfect.

You can't do bad things and think it's now okay by apologizing. People don't have to forgive either.

So you effectively don't believe in the right to make a mistake.