Thread by @HoegLaw

A wild thread here from a famous Internet figure putting a stake in the ground against games and “gamers” because...some folks on a Minecraft server used slurs.

It’s a wild take against a whole industry, but video games (and gamers) get compartmentalized more than others.

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1316099474339573766

I’m a gamer of course, and we’ve talked a lot about industry perceptions/reporting in #VirtualLegality, but it’s always interesting to see games in particular get labeled industry-wide for the actions of a few.

You don’t see the same pushback to YouTube comments, for instance.

Which is all a long way of saying: I never recommend judging entire industries made up of a multitude of different participants, content, and experiences solely based on the bad behavior of a few.

I’d be happy to talk with @tomscott about it sometime.

And I’d say the below is arguably worse. Reasonable minds *can’t* differ in an environment with this as the end point.

Because every disagreement is framed as *unreasonable* (or in Tom’s parlance, made by “the sort of people I was trying to warn away”.)

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1316109986284613634

And I will also say that I would never have thought I would need to screen cap discussion points from Tom on something like this, so my apologies to those who didn’t see the original thread. Lesson learned, I guess.

Okay, I had some of them (there’s a middle that’s missing where he talks about seeing slurs on a charity Minecraft server). The last tweet (and another) were added to soften the pushback, but are wanting given the premise of the thread (“no video game coverage; here’s why”).