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And it's perfectly reasonable for people to ask "why don't you want to buy a game sweetbaby worked on?"
For example: I won't purchase a game produced by Blizzard. If someone asked me why I wouldn't evade the question by saying "I am free to do so, that is my choice." I will happily tell them it's because of how poorly they treat their employees, and how they actively make games worse to try to squeeze more money out of people. The entire point of a boycott is to inform people why this company should be boycotted.
All this dancing around answering the very simple question of "why do you actively want to avoid purchasing a game SBI worked on" speaks volumes as to how generally unacceptable that reason must be. Makes it look like people are afraid to "say the quiet part of loud." Why else would they not just answer the question?
People don't need your approval on how they spend their money. Nor do they need to justify their choices.
True. Just be aware that when someone says "this looks like bigotry," if the only response they get is "I don't have to explain myself to you!" That doesn't make it look less like bigotry.
Any reason at all would have looked better. Or just not replying.
You can't accuse someone of bigotry because they don't want to buy something.
Sure you can when their reason for not buying something is clearly bigotry.
people don't have to buy what you are selling. It's their decision, not yours.
I never said otherwise. I simply said "the reason they don't want to buy this isn't because of what the product is, it's because they are bigots who don't like the fact that there are people involved who promote inclusivity," and nobody has presented any alternative reasons.
People can absolutely buy or not buy whatever they want. And when bigots do things because of bigotry I can point out that bigotry when people ask why they are doing those things.
There is more to the world that your narrow US/Western politics. We just don't care to be part of your silly crusades when playing games.
I'm not the one curating lists to let everyone know some "woke" company worked on it. I just call bigotry when I see it.
Yet you've been consistently replying with nothing but weak attempts at evasion.
It's evasion because we don't have to justify our personal choices to you. You don't get to decide how we spend our money.
You have become such a slave to your corporate overlords, that saying "no, I don't want this" offends you.
And why don't you want it?
There's all sorts of things I won't buy and companies I won't purchase from. When asked why I'm perfectly happy to give my reasons instead of just saying "I don't have to and you can't make me!" Repeatedly.
The part of you don't understand is that people don't have to justify their choices to you.
You have been spending a lot of time "not justifying your choices" to other people, when no one has claimed that you have to. So what are you trying to achieve here if not "justify your choices?"
Is it also reasonable to spam report and make racist/sexist remarks?
I think it's always reasonable to report bigots playing stupid bigot games. The fact that the Steam Group had to delete every discussion and completely lock their discussion area to maintain compliance with Steam's policies seems to indicate those reports were warranted.
Racist and sexist remarks are never appropriate. Do you have specific examples you are concerned about? Or are you going to give me some vague "they are the ones saying racist things!!1!" Nonsense with nothing to back it up?