Hard to read all these responses, but thank god for yours. I feel like I'm a little less crazy now knowing someone else understands. Because it often appears no one else understands how the left manipulates folks. I've never seen so many white people be more offended than the victims themselves. A Marxist organization, who is anti-family values, anti-nuclear families, anti-white people, and Blizzard supports them. It's so crazy.
And before anyone goes off the rails. It is quite easy to provide sources for everything I mentioned.
Difference - they decided to use a platform they own, the money involved and risk is theirs, vs Blitzchung without permission used their platform. If left unchecked, people co-opting their platform could cost them advertisers and revenue streams. Blitzchung essentially came to your house, took your car to the gas station without asking without a drivers licence or insurance. Opening you up to all sorts of liabilities if something went wrong.
If that's your takeaway, sure. My core point is that a company that makes moral stands should always be suspect, regardless of how strongly individuals within the company feel about something, because that company will always be deafeningly silent on human rights abuses in countries where it has a strong financial interest. Ask Blizzard for their opinion on the Chechens attempting a purge of all homosexuals within their borders a few years ago, and you'll get the same 'we're apolitical' answer they gave about Hong Kong, because Russia is a big market they don't want to risk.
At the end of the day, a company's moral stance is entirely reliant on money. Blizzard spoke out in favor of the protests against police brutality because it won't impact their bottom line--they don't risk losing out on markets in the US by saying so. They're silent on China and Russia because they stand to lose money. So when they come out in support of a social issue, you should always, always amend, "because this won't hurt our finances." to the end of their statement.
Be seeing you guys on Bloodsail Buccaneers NA!
I always laugh when I see stuff like this. I don't discount that the left does this, but the right clearly does this as well. All you have to do is look at the current situation with COVID. "We are pro-life! No abortions!" What about COVID? "*crickets*" or "It's a hoax" or "We swear it's not that many".
That's politics, but it's clearly found on both sides.
I maintain that the left pretends to care about you while the right just will openly take advantage of you without even pretending.
People zealously attach them self to [brand] and use them as a bastion morals now because its the new religion for people who live empty lives. Its really sad