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STOP THE "WITCH-HUNTING"

The majority of people who voted on my poll confermate my impression that, inside the Sims Community, a trend of using LGBT themes, ethnicity, and other sensitive topics to claim pridefully a supposed inclusivity exist.

I'll tell you what you are: a community of hypocrites and attention seeking bitches that claims a false and apparent inclusivity while being, in the facts, one of the most discriminating and less inclusive communities around. 

And you show this EVERY TIME you try to force someone to:

1. being inclusive in their content: as an inclusive community, you should be inclusive ALSO toward those people that have no interest in being inclusive at all, without making up accusations of being homophobe, racist, or other serious similar accusations, that nothing have to do with what you are supposedly fighting, but SERIOUS QUESTIONS that often result in violence and pain in real life, and each time you use it to indicate a person that refuses to include this or that minority in their contents (and you DON'T KNOW the reasons, as much as you know the person in question may be trying to not be disrespectful toward a reality they don't know and don't feel confident into talking about) you take away from these terms their serious meaning and make of them a joke.

2. as an inclusive community, you should be inclusive also toward those people that decide to include in their content topics you don't agree with. And at least IGNORE such content and carry on. As someone more famous to me said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

This constant failure at being, in the facts, an inclusive, open minded community makes your use of the topics I addressed above to make a false claim and a pride of an apparent inclusivity even more disgusting. 

Thanks for the attention. Yeah I don't like anonymous fights.

Comments

Anonymous

SO MANY people on twitter were mad that the 4 (i think) game changers included in the making of the new snowy escape EP weren't Asian. Just because the theme is Asian and EA was picking by popularity and subscriber count, not race. 2020 is weird

zer0_Mods_

People try to pick up a question for every bullshit now days... They're all divas. Clearly EA picks game changers based on how many subscribers they have, they're trying to sell a game not change the world. They're a company, out for money. That's the same reason they include other topics in game that they know are going to make a selling point for packs, like lgbt questions that are so dear to the community. It's a marketing strategy. They're not charity. Is a bit like when make up companies support the feminist cause... Like they really gave a shit.

Anonymous

I hardly ever make comments online. But I just had to jump in and say, WELL Fkng SAID. Thank you.

Anonymous

I couldn't agree with what you said more. Unfortunately it is not jut happening in the sim community; it's a problem in society in general. There are so many supposedly Liberal people constantly trying to forces their ideas, opinions, and beliefs on others; while being completely unwilling to listen to any POV other than their own. They even refuse to acknowledge the fact that others have a right to their own beliefs and ideas.

Anonymous

I think it’s really important to note that there’s a legitimate problem with modders and other less marginalized people in the Sims community refusing to include marginalized people because they want to pretend we don’t exist. And that’s reinforced by EA not being inclusive (which a lot of POC have been taking about forever, but EA and white people in the community didn’t want to talk about before they were forced to.) Because if I see that there is a modder who is actively ignoring or disrespecting marginalized communities, that’s absolutely a problem. I’m not asking them to pretend to care about inclusivity, I’m saying that of course they should care about being inclusive because everyone in the community should. People who pretend to care but really don’t are definitely a problem. But it’s not OK to act like marginalized people are assholes for wanting to be acknowledged.

zer0_Mods_

Speak for yourself, then other people will follow. Point one: EA does what it profits them. As I said before, they're a company, not charity. You think they included gender fluid sims in the game because they cared about it? Think again... They studied the trend, saw it was profitable, and jumped on it. This is how a company thinks and work. Same reason they ignored the community when disney threw money at them to promote Star Wars, and when moschino took out money to promote the new line. Including other minorities is not a priority to them, until it's profitable. Also, including everyone is impossible. Now, if someone actively disrespect a minority (and I never saw it honestly) then you have the right to protest, but we modder don't work for you, we do what we do because we want to, as such we have the right to do what we feel like doing and you're not entitled to ask for anything, actually.

zer0_Mods_

Yeah I saw there is a bit of a masked fascism going on more or less everywhere and this also reflect in the sims community, but I have sort of a voice only here, and I think I'll be mostly ignored anyway, but I need to at least try to take this out in the wild because I'm honestly sick of seeing this shit. Surely on a global level we're going toward a very shitty future.

Anonymous

Discrimination of all forms has always been present in the global human society. That does not mean that every person is filled with such negative energy and thoughts about everyone else. And yes, EA is a corporation, which does mean they are interested in anything that will bring profit, and hence careers and benefits to their staff as well. Mod creators and CC creators are working on something they enjoy doing as their hobbies, and they are extremely kind in sharing their creations with the rest of us. So yes Zero I do agree with you completely. I play this game to relax and to try to find a break from stresses that exist in my life. However, lately, I have not been able to play it because of the attitudes of so many simmers on the CC and Mods sites. As an American, I find all of the prejudices and discrimination and hate to be exhausting and appalling. The politicians and people of this country are facing a point where we might actually start another civil war. I am a white female, living with my husband on his family's cattle ranch in NW Colorado. I live with people who hold a Republican right wing mindset, and his brother's family hold a Libertarian mindset that is more conservative as well. I am a liberal sided Democrat. I have friends of all mindsets and political ideals, which I don't mind. We have all been discriminated against in some way by others, but we can continue to grow from each other. I know this because I was raised by a mother with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy who had trouble walking, and before she passed away she could not walk at all. She had congestive heart failure and also suffered a sizeable stroke in the last couple of years before she passed. But, from this woman, I learned that we all have something we can to everyone else. We can stand up and fight against those whose fear will strike out to put everyone else down. I attended school growing up with friends who are black, Mexican, Russian, Indian, Native American, German, Dutch, Columbian, and the list goes on. Even in college I was friends with the East Asians and all other foreign students because they could teach me about where they came from. My minor was also East Asian History, and my major was mass communications, with an emphasis on written journalism and photographic arts. And then with a year left in my degree, I was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, which caused severe congestive heart failure and two massive strokes on the left side of my brain, which effected the communication section of my brain ( so sorry this is so long ), but I say this because I have experienced, seen, and been put through many hate filled situations. So today when I see someone bad mouthing a mod creator, a cc creator, or a Game Changer, I unfollow them. It doesn't matter why they are against them, I just will not tolerate that much negativity in my game now. I drive to town to do errands and when I go through the town closest to us I have to keep my mouth shut. It is very narrow minded and conservative, and yes, Trump has supporters there, as well as QAnon. My niece came home telling her mom about how the new girl was calling other students' parents "Democrats" and that it was a dirty word. Here's the trick to that. Imani said, "(which a lot of POC have been taking about forever, but EA and white people in the community didn’t want to talk about before they were forced to.)" We aren't like that. In fact, what would you think of someone walking down the street with strawberry blonde hair, green eyes, and fair skin? Would you think they are white so they discriminate against everyone? Well in my case, you would actually be judging a European-Mohawk-Algonquin Native American cross breed, who isn't allowed to claim their heritage, who is expected to stand against their brother and brother-in-law, their mother and them self because of disability, and all of their friends for a variety of reasons. There is no reason for such hate and intolerance to exist amongst humanity of any form. And there is certainly no reason to judge a game manufacturer for the content of a game pack (which I can't wait to enjoy, even without mods as we sort those issues out) they are selling to their games fans and players. There is no reason to look down on popular game changers who are actually able to bring voice to the concerns of many players, which EA then actually eventually does something about those concerns. Players should judge the packs based on whether the content contained in the pack is something they are interested in. If not, well, then just don't get the pack. If there is something you like then purchase the pack and enjoy those parts of it. Ignore what you don't like. We are destroying ourselves when we are so negative. And my perspective on mods is the same way. I will support creators I like for any mod they create, even those that I do not use. As for the question about Japan and the Rising Sun, the white flag with the red dot is the flag of the Rising Sun. Japanese see the perspective as the sun rises in Japan. Their flag has red diagonals on it when they are at war. Just a fact. Anyone who wants to can listen to songs by Hyde. YouTube has some of his videos. He sings songs in Japanese, Japanese and English, and English, but you can learn some things about Japan in some of his songs. And please remember, those of us who do not like to look down on anyone also have moments when the hate, intolerance and negativity drive us to saying hurtful things as well. We don't mean it, and we feel horrid afterwards, but it does happen. I guess Just find what you like, because life is hard enough and we have to find ways to help us get through it. I'm long winded here, and I'm sorry about that. Zero, please keep making your mods. They are all wonderful.

zer0_Mods_

Sadly, discrimination doesn't only have a cultural value, it has a social value. In wolves, discrimination against one individual of the group serve to make the group closer together and release stress. Nothing brings a group together like having a shared enemy. We can't ever be completely free of this instinct, but I think instruction is a step closer to being a more civilized society since fear born from ignorance is the basis of a lot of discrimination. In the context of the community right now... I just think the community is full of very sad individuals that would sell their children to get attentions. And that's... A bit of internet culture everywhere. I have a similar background. I have a very mixed blood myself so I always found myself at the margins of society even though, I must say, I never found a strong discrimination in any of the two countries I lived in (italy and ireland, people are very accepting in both at least in my experience, especially in italy they've been very friendly and helpful with me... Some of them are not like this with people from countries like Romania, but that has other reasons entirely, even though that doesn't really justify the demonization some of them do of an entire population. My father was from Morocco, my mother Irish from her father side and italian from her mother side, so I was never fully something). And I lived here in italy in a sort of commune with people coming from all around the world. To me was never a big deal where someone was from, or the color of the skin, and also I like to learn about other cultures. But I faced discrimination too in my life about other things. What really gets on my nerves is when someone who faced discrimination then uses the same method on others, because they should know better than doing it. I don't really know America political situation at the moment, and I'm not really involved into Italian political scene either, but America ideal has always been, technically, freedom. I don't think this ideal gets always followed though.

TheLibrarian

Quite frankly, you've exactly expressed my thoughts on this issue. I've been having this sort of conversation for some time about the simming community. EA have fanned the flames by pushing the 'competitive rhetoric' when sims is adored around the world for being a single player game that allows every player to create their chosen environment to play in. It's designed to allow the player to escape reality or recreate it in ways which please them. As such the old mantra 'there is no wrong way to play sims' should be very liberally applied and thoughtfully considered before jumping in to shit-slam others.

Anonymous

I was in a forum the other day where someone was trying to figure out how to make a futa character and someone picked a fight with them calling them transphobic and accusing them of using slurs [Futa] whereas the person literally wasn't trying to be offensive. They were just trying to learn how to do something with a theme they liked.

zer0_Mods_

Apart from the fact that some MtF decide to not remove the reproductive system at all to not lose sexual sensibility (as some FtM do) and as far as I know, they can be classified as "futa" in that case, so it's not even something transphobic in any way.

Plumb

I have no idea what happened to prompt this post, but I cannot agree more with the part about disagreeing with one's opinion but fighting to the death to protect their right to have an opinion at all. #FreeSpeech

Anonymous

Hello Zero, it's being a while since i've been following you on patreon, and i was thinking, reading some of your comments and these two last posts, that you really say what you think, despite of the fear people would feel hurt or they would get back at you. Your way of thinking is different of mine, but... I like your bluntness, i like your boldness, i wish i was a little more like you and share my feelings and my opinion a little more often. ^^' So for my own good, i would like to say : do the things your way, say what you want to say, create the mods you want to play, and make the game a little more like you. And so i'll try to express myself for a once, though i'm not fluent in english. First, i have to admit i dont really know how it goes in the modders' community since i don't create mods myself (i'm writing a story), so my opinion is somewhat more general, for the entire sims community, on the ea forum especially. I don't think we're necessary force to be inclusive, but the group effect is powerfull on internet, Ea expressed itself in favor of certain ideas, while censorship and propriety are allmighty in its game (and on its forum). As a result, there's no room for debate, an ideology imposes itself without any contest, it becomes the dominant thought and defines what it's politically correct. It's scary, just like a crowd movement, people go with the flow. And so it's snowballing and becomes trend. Everyone think that way, even the ones that aren't even concerned think that way. The subjects are sensitive subjects such as sexual orientation, etnicity... So, yes, amongst the crowd, there are people that are bearing a great anger (against some injustices i guess) and sometimes, they need to justify their fight by finding a vilain to fight..., but those are individual cases, and i think they are less common thought they are the ones you'll ear the most, but if we add the group effect, the risk that the things will get out of hand keep rising, and the pressure is there, higher and higher. However, I don't think people are hypocrite. I think they're really geniune in their feeling (at least for most people), and they really want to be themselves inclusive, but, sometimes it's hard to see what's next, when we're push forward, and even harder to look at ourselves, when our personal feelings are in line. That's the way i see things. Similar to yours for the main idea, but in my own way in the process :) Hope you'll find some little things interesting in what i said, just like i found in yours as well. I wish you well and thank you very much for your hard work. *bow*

zer0_Mods_

I don't think people are hypocrites either. I think few people are hypocrites. Sadly those few are the ones that voice their opinions the most, as they are the ones that have all do demonstrate and show off to others. Others that may or may not be genuine in their feelings get dragged or support them out of a real interest, without realizing that what they're following is not a rightful protest but a propaganda. Things always work this way. I use my words very carefully to explicitly be bold, actually. I want to come out this way. Apart from that, I don't know how things work inside the community either, but I can see how they work from an external point of view, I'm not involved in the modder community, nor I am in the sims community in general. The fact is, that when it comes to EA/Maxis, the ones in power of really directing the game is us, not them, as we are the one managing our money and directing the game. This power could be used wisely and be very effective: the same way as making the LGBT trend so prominent in the community brings Maxis to follow the trend and be inclusive, making having multicultural sims, disability, or whatever minority you want to include in the game a trend is going to inspire maxis to follow the trend to sell the game. Now this tool, this power, inside the community too often get used by weak, attention seeking people that have no interest in the good of the community as a whole, but only a personal interest in how they're seen inside it, which quite frankly is idiotic if you ask me, being this an internet community, and also is a waste of power that more often than not brings divisions and a decentralization of it. You push inclusivity by being inclusive not by fighting other people that, according to you, are not. The moment you enter the fight with other for this reason, to me, you are only trying to show off.

Anonymous

Ea doesn't just want to sell the game, they also want a good image so they can sell all their games. They weren't well seen few years ago. If you asked me, i'd say they aren't inspired in anything, they just jump onto opportunities. But i get what you mean by using the power more wisely. I don't want to be inclusive personnally, i just want to be understanding, and i 'd hope people would do that as well, though this is probably completely unrealistic. ^^'

zer0_Mods_

Wanting to have a good image is another thing the community could use as an instrument of power to get in game what they want if they were actually 1. A community that could come together to build something together and not a bunch of people fishing for likes and 2. Actually interested in changing something. When you are, you find a way to do it. I don't give a fuck about being inclusive myself, I don't tollerate any kind of imposition, not even the ones I try to force on myself, I only care about doing whatever the fuck I want at any given moment, and if that comes out as "inclusivity"... I don't give much of a fuck either. But I must admit that the disgust toward certain trends in the community push me to do the exact opposite they do just for the fuck of it, and I don't like this kind of imposition either.

Anonymous

I used to agree with the statement "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" 100% -- I no longer support that statement AT ALL. See, here's the the thing: some things are opinions. Some things are morality. When someone refuses to acknowledge the existence (including identity) of another human being, I cannot defend the right to that. The paradox of tolerance is a very real thing. This is why I believe certain kinds of statements must always be challenged. I agree that there are better ways to challenge those statements than by beginning with accusations -- but if someone says "I don't want diversity in the Sims", I'm going to have to ask "why not?" And yes, in the back of my head, I'm going to be wondering if it has to do with racism or bigotry -- which is a sad side-effect of our current political climate that has left many of us feeling wounded and afraid.

zer0_Mods_

You're the one that doesn't accept diversity in the moment you challenge someone that doesn't want diversity, because you're not accepting the other person diversity. Your morality is a snake that bites its tail.

Psychachu

Well said. PS, is your discord working? I can't connect to it. (Probably a problem on my end, though.)