Blizzard's Actions to Support the Black Community, Colleagues, and Partners

[Neufab]

What a load of blatant hypocrisy. There's only one motivating factor among the Acitivions-Blizzard C levels and that's potential profits.

[Zeons]

All lives matter implies black lives matter.

[Nelle]

Sylvanas would disagree. Also havn't Warcraft been one big mixed up racewar in its core since release?

Imagine if Sylvanas becomes woke in Shadowlands as a result of all this. Surely hope the storywriters keep it calm and sway away from "The Last of Us 2" roadmap, cause damn that looks grim in the public right now.

Keep videogames and movements in reality seperated please.

[Sanguinerd]

All lives matter implies black lives matter.

It's been made painfully clear this is THEIR party, you either support it or be called a racist.

That's how these people have decided to fight racism

[WaltherLeopold]

Most people in Western countries get that racism, provided it isn't aimed at white people, is bad, yes.

Bro if you think people can all agree racism is bad, modern America is going to blow your mind.

So the question is, how is this going to combat racism in the US, which I assume this is trying to target, refer back to my post, is this an admission from Blizzard, after introspecting that they are racist company and this is a pledge to change?

Or is this meant to broadcast the most obvious and milquetoast hot take ever made by a company, i.e racism is bad.

If the latter, who are you trying to talk to? Your audience who by en large most likely already knows that racism is bad and aren't racist. Or the racists who don't care about your opinion on their racism.

[Samuraijake]

agree i dont care because i am not supporting this Racism because all lives matter

including black lives.

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Are you fucking kidding me lol. Do you even know Blitzchung's message? Some of your hardcore BLM supporters are sometimes so blinded that you think that's the only thing that matters in the entire world. Get the out of your echo chamber sometimes.

Let's not even get into racism in China.

I believe blizzard had an established rule to not spread your political beliefs via the esports platform. Bliztchung broke that rule and was punished in doing so.

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Saying All Lives Matter in response to Black Lives Matter is like a firefighter hosing down all the houses in the neighborhood instead of the burning building because "All houses matter".

noice.

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Do people still fall for this corporate bullshit?

You're playing their games and on a website based solely on only their games. Just puttin that out there.

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But meanwhile screw Hong Kong right eh Blizzard?

You double standard pricks.

You know what they've commonly been doing to black people in china since covid 19 right?

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Hmm, All these things they say they are going to do, they should'v been doing anyway, if they were not then there is issues inside the company itself. There is only one race, the Human race.
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Tell it to the cops.

[Raetary]

This thread sure is pretty.

[Kel_Sceptic]

Saying All Lives Matter in response to Black Lives Matter is like a firefighter hosing down all the houses in the neighborhood instead of the burning building because "All houses matter".

You, low IQ, people comparing a single house, a single bone broken, a single child dead, with a whole race, it is pure #idiocracy.
You compare a single house on fire, if like ALL "BLACK LIVES" were killed in that incident. How can you even breath with that kind of logic in your head.


Another one was making a video comparing "broken bones", trying to preach the same example as you did, saying somthing like "so you got an ankle bone in pain and you go to the doctor. You don't say "ALL MY BONES HURT!!!", you just say "my ankle bone hurts". So people must understand why we are not using "all lives matter"" Dude, are you drunk ? Not all bones are broken, just like not all "BLACK LIVES" are victims, just like not all HOUSES are on fire.

Stop spreading sh1t examples, cause for people who don't think for themselfs and have an IQ =<100, it will kind of make sense, just like it does to you.


When someone is a victim, they are not ALL VICTIMS, doesn't matter we talk about race/colors/rape/theft/etc.!

All lives matter, all races have shitty persons, rapist, burglers, scums. Don't bring #IDIOCRACY in our planet.

[Godric]

Racists are out in force. This website continues to disappoint.

Calling anyone a racist should get you a ban, imo. Considering how easy it is to call someone that without any proof they treat anyone different based on race. The amount of damage that can potentially cause should be punishable to just throw out brainlessly.

[Rotted]

Blizzard keep quiet about what they do behind the scenes: WAAAH BLIZZARD DON'T GIVE A FUCK.

Blizzard post what they do behind the scene: WAAAAH THEY ARE JUST DOING IT TO LOOK GOOD TO MAKE MORE MONEY

You're all a bunch of chimps

[Kumorii]

Never understood people's desire that companies do virtue signaling. Only reason a company does anything political is because they think it earns money and favor. Whenever a company speaks about it all I can hear is "like us and buy our products because look how we parrot what you guys value".

*shrug* I really don't get it...

[Dalheim]

Also, can we just lock this thread in advance? It's just going to be filled with the usual:

• VIRTUE SIGNALING!
• They only care about money
• WHAT ABOUT HONG KONG
• WHAT ABOUT (insert any number of conflicts/issues around the world)
• Make video games!
• IT'S PR!
• All Lives Matter!
• Subtle racism

It's just tiring. I love games, but the gaming community is reflective of the multitude of cringe and memes jokes, the stereotypical neckbeards. I can understand some people's point of views, but for fuck's sake, it's a nice gesture. Whether it's PR, whether it's virtue signaling (whatever that means), it's still a nice gesture and I'm not going to tarnish it by just assuming it's a cold action by a corporation for the sake of appeasing societal pressure. I'll take it as it is and keep it moving. I can't help but roll my eyes the moment stuff like this gets posted, because the worst of you on here come out. The cockroaches who feel the need to sow bitterness, pettiness and disdain just because an inkling of the real world seeped into your precious escape of video games.

So many of you suck as human beings, severely lacking in empathy, and I hope that through some struggle and hardship, you'll develop into more functional and kinder humans.

*clap, clap, clap*

Well said my dude.(And no, I'm not being sarcastic.)

[Fetus Rex]

Did the same to my country generations ago. The communist playbook is the same every single time and the populations keeps falling for it and acting surprised when the masks fall off.

It's because most people are relatively dim creatures. It's true what Marx said: democracy will lead to socialism.

[Verdugo]

If Blizzard could profit from police brutality, they would be plastering Trump portraits all over Twitter.

Dont believe corporations, look how they behave when the push comes to shove.

[Eapoe]

Are you fucking kidding me lol. Do you even know Blitzchung's message? Some of your hardcore BLM supporters are sometimes so blinded that you think that's the only thing that matters in the entire world. Get the out of your echo chamber sometimes.

Let's not even get into racism in China.

I know that Blizzard went into his penalty over the fact he used Blizzard’s platform to spread his own personal message.
This post is Blizzard’s stance as a company. They are separate incidents. Blizzard can choose to support, or not support, whomever they want.

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All lives matter implies black lives matter.

To some people who try to make it mean that, sure. The issue is that All Lives Matter was created to undermine the meaning behind Black Lives Matter, and some people still use it for that.

[Verdugo]

This post is Blizzard’s stance as a company.

Its really not, because Blizzard and other corporations completely forget this stance when they are marketing for china and islamic countries.

[Azerate]

They did that? How exactly is not liking something that lorewise makes no sense racist or "supremacist"? Oh and where are my Hispanic goblins? As a latina, I think it's pretty racist we don't have that option.

Not liking that your favorite white skinned race can now be black is the epitome of racism.

So we're to forget just a while ago they banned news casters and a player for showing support for the pro democracy protests in hong Kong or was blizzard in the right for not showing support for that? I mean...its not like they were protesting an over reaching and over oppressive police state or anything am I right?

Or is this just another example of an American company only caring about politics that benifit them financially with good PR while ignoring the reprehensible actions they took in the past.

As for support for black communities and diverse representation, guess whats the only class they removed for Diablo immortal game being made for the chinese market? That's right, Witch Doctor. Oh and should I also point out that Tracer, and soldier 76 is straight in the Chinese market.

If blizzard truely cared about diversity and inclusion, they would take the hit, and stand up for what they belived in even if it costs them their bottom line. The reason most people are against this move is because while its doing the right thing now, they have not done the right thing in the past because it cost them their bottom line. I sincerely believe if China threatened blizzard by removing their 5% share in activision blizzard for doing this, they would remove the donations in a heart beat.

The Hong Kong thing was bad optics for Blizzard but they were in the right. Maybe not completely but to a major extent. Esports event isnt' a place for what the guy did, and in the end they backpeddled on all his punishments anyway. Imagine if the guy started rallying for Trump instead and got disqualified. Probably people would be far more accepting.

As for the corporate thing...sure, companies are bad because they are doing whatever they can to make money. That's what we can believe, but the reality is that is the system we are living in. Don't blame the companies, blame the system. They are just playing the game by the rules alreayd set.

[Djuntas]

Silence, brand!

Shut the fuck up and get back to making games. We don't need lessons in morality from corporations. Especially corporations that bend over backwards for genocidal communist regimes.

This. Blizzard is the last to speak about morals and ethics, the very last one.

[SirBeef]

You sound like a racist scumbag.

I sense projection.

[Eapoe]

Its really not, because Blizzard and other corporations completely forget this stance when they are marketing for china and islamic countries.

Except they do not. The stance they took was that of neutral, choosing not to display a stance either for or against what was happening in China. They are choosing a stance here.
As stated, the issue with Blitzchung is that a solo person, not affiliated wit Blizzard in any way except as a competitor in one of their events, used Blizzard’s platform for his own beliefs.
This issue they are not staying silent about.