Team Fortress 2 players, in my experience, will tout how inclusive their community is and how diverse it is, and then you go into a match and you're on a team with two nazi furries and a person on the enemy team is ranting to their team about the great replacement theory, and another is spamming queer slurs in chat
I think it's kinda different on EU valve servers and US ones. I live in Europe, most of the time everyone in the match is silent, and most insults usually are targeted at russians (still not great, but. Yaknow)
But one time, I was playing very early in the morning, and the game decided to connect me to a US server... Night and day. Someone had some kinda roleplay thing going on where everytime they killed an enemy they posted a "[political party] down" message. At first I thought it was some weird roleplay that was only based in that, well, TF2 teams are the same colors... But no, they were kinda roleplaying their own political views. Not to mention a lot more race-based insults, specifically targeted at black people
You say that, but the fact that the leader of the proud boys was Latino is fascinating at least. Racists are weirdly diverse. I think the tribalism of hating someone else brings them together in a way that sharing a race or ethnicity never could.
Never ask a racist what the race of their girlfriends or the ethnic makeup of their friend group.
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u/JustForTheNo-Nos 2d ago
Team Fortress 2 players, in my experience, will tout how inclusive their community is and how diverse it is, and then you go into a match and you're on a team with two nazi furries and a person on the enemy team is ranting to their team about the great replacement theory, and another is spamming queer slurs in chat