Juno News - March 28, 2024


GamerGate 2.0 is OUT OF CONTROL!


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

166.16934

Word Count

2,079

Sentence Count

141

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.120 Maybe MJ was right. Why would the city need me when it has you?
00:00:07.940 We may seem weary and ragged, but we know secret routes of England's coasts.
00:00:13.780 What you got there?
00:00:15.720 Bigot sandwiches.
00:00:24.400 Gamergate 2.0 has been dominating the internet over the past month,
00:00:28.140 and this new ideological flare-up all centers around a Montreal-based diversity, equity, and inclusion gaming firm named Sweet Baby Inc.
00:00:38.140 Like every artistic, cultural industry, you simply are not allowed to be left alone to enjoy the medium.
00:00:44.880 You must be inundated with divisive political messaging.
00:00:49.420 You must be reminded of the new hierarchy that social activists and large corporations adhere to.
00:00:55.300 That hierarchy, by the way, places straight white males at the very bottom.
00:01:00.320 However, when the new untouchable class begins noticing this pattern,
00:01:03.860 and begin noticing that despite being loyal customers,
00:01:07.300 they are now the enemy and target in the video games they play in,
00:01:10.560 that's when these social activists begin to show their true colors.
00:01:14.240 When you notice, for example, that large gaming studios have decided to erase white males from their games,
00:01:19.880 or add pronouns to every single playable character,
00:01:23.360 or, for example, put Black Lives Matter messaging in the latest Spider-Man, for goodness sake,
00:01:28.480 and dare to question what's going on, or even worse, dare to push back against what's going on,
00:01:34.480 that's when this activist class, the new Maoists, initiate their struggle session against you.
00:01:39.800 And now, it seems as though these activists are taking it to the next level.
00:01:44.200 According to the BBC's gaming presenter, it's time for a, quote,
00:01:48.800 final purge against all of those who dare to disagree with diversity, equity, and inclusion in video games.
00:01:57.000 I'm sure all of this will end well.
00:01:59.240 Before we get into the show, drop a like in the video,
00:02:01.180 help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel,
00:02:03.620 stick around for the ratio of the week,
00:02:05.260 and the common question for the episode is this.
00:02:08.540 Why is it normal to discriminate against white males?
00:02:12.240 Let me know your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it.
00:02:15.460 Let's do this.
00:02:16.540 Let's be honest.
00:02:17.840 Most new movies, music, and video games are awful.
00:02:21.820 Diversity above all else seems to be the priority.
00:02:25.380 Not talent, not writing, not character depth.
00:02:28.360 The most important thing seems to be making sure that there aren't too many white males on the screen at once.
00:02:34.700 Now, nowhere is this more acutely felt than in video games.
00:02:37.660 Large gaming studios like Ubisoft and Electronic Arts
00:02:40.440 have been ramming through divisive political messaging in their games,
00:02:44.120 race swapping characters to make sure there are fewer white characters in the game,
00:02:47.820 and of course, lots of pronouns.
00:02:50.500 Now, this story has been going on for over a month now,
00:02:53.340 but I want to go back to where it all began,
00:02:55.180 with Sweet Baby Ink,
00:02:56.440 and with someone who dared to commit the crime of noticing,
00:03:00.100 something you're really not allowed to do in this day and age.
00:03:03.100 Now, a social media user set up a Steam page
00:03:06.300 to document all of the games that Sweet Baby Ink was involved in making.
00:03:12.000 Now, you might be asking,
00:03:13.120 why would they bother doing that?
00:03:15.200 Well, according to Sweet Baby Ink's website,
00:03:18.720 the company's objective,
00:03:19.940 and one of the things they offer to larger game studios,
00:03:23.080 is cultural consultation,
00:03:26.040 sensitivity and inclusivity reading,
00:03:28.420 risk and opportunities assessment,
00:03:29.820 and more.
00:03:31.220 Furthermore,
00:03:32.380 the people who work at Sweet Baby Ink,
00:03:34.480 and who previously worked at Sweet Baby Ink,
00:03:37.020 don't seem to like white people very much.
00:03:39.340 According to this article in The Shortcut,
00:03:42.240 Sweet Baby Ink has been accused of making games worse
00:03:44.920 in a bid to help companies meet their ESG and DEI targets.
00:03:49.580 It has also come under fire for allegedly forcing its employees' political ideologies
00:03:54.000 into the games it has worked on.
00:03:55.920 Sweet Baby Ink's CEO,
00:03:57.940 Kim Belair in a 2019 Game Developers Conference
00:04:01.200 basically told the crowd to threaten marketing departments
00:04:05.400 with the consequences for not adopting racial politics into your video games.
00:04:11.400 If you're a creative working in AAA,
00:04:13.040 which I did for many, many years,
00:04:15.100 put this stuff up to your higher-ups,
00:04:17.860 and if they don't see the value in what you're asking for
00:04:20.360 when you ask for consultants,
00:04:21.360 when you ask for research,
00:04:22.820 go have a coffee with your marketing team
00:04:24.920 and just terrify them with the possibility
00:04:28.240 of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want.
00:04:30.720 Another ex-Sweet Baby Ink employee
00:04:33.140 said at a game developers conference
00:04:35.280 that she just wouldn't hire white people.
00:04:37.800 We have no white people on our team.
00:04:39.600 I did that because I wanted to create a safe environment,
00:04:44.680 and I know the best way for an environment to be safe
00:04:47.360 is to be around people who are just like me.
00:04:49.800 Sometimes it is hard to work with white people
00:04:52.240 because they think that something made okay,
00:04:56.300 but it was really a microaggression.
00:04:58.360 Now, the only thing that this person on Steam did
00:05:01.060 was create a list of the games this company is involved in making.
00:05:05.440 The person didn't say to boycott the games,
00:05:07.960 didn't say to harass the company,
00:05:10.100 but just simply notified people
00:05:12.160 about what games this company was involved in making.
00:05:14.960 Some of these games are some of the biggest games in the industry.
00:05:17.700 One of the employees of this Montreal-based
00:05:20.340 diversity, equity, and inclusion firm
00:05:22.380 went on a campaign to get this Steam page deleted,
00:05:27.120 report the F out of this group,
00:05:29.320 and report the creator since he loves his account so much.
00:05:33.020 Now, that Sweet Baby Ink employee for this harassment
00:05:35.640 was banned from Twitter for six days
00:05:37.640 for breaching the company's policies.
00:05:39.860 Now, this is not an isolated incident.
00:05:41.840 Sweet Baby Ink is just one company
00:05:43.840 that have been doing this in video games.
00:05:46.200 It's the large video game studios,
00:05:48.680 the ones that make the games,
00:05:50.240 that have fully bought into this idea.
00:05:53.120 I mean, just look at some of these examples.
00:05:55.180 It's absurd.
00:05:56.220 We begin with God of War Ragnarok,
00:05:59.360 where they race-swapped a Norse mythological figure
00:06:02.540 to be a black woman.
00:06:04.380 I'm Anger Voda.
00:06:07.040 You must have a lot of questions.
00:06:09.080 As we've already mentioned with Spider-Man 2,
00:06:11.860 we have this rather subtle BLM messaging in the game.
00:06:16.660 In another Sweet Baby Ink video game,
00:06:19.560 Kill the Justice League,
00:06:20.940 again, we have some more subtle political messaging.
00:06:25.340 Slept with a guy once,
00:06:26.400 for this little yappy dog.
00:06:28.960 Way less annoying than you.
00:06:31.000 How about this in Assassin's Creed Valhalla?
00:06:33.740 Again, another Sweet Baby Ink video game.
00:06:36.000 Some black Vikings.
00:06:37.700 They apparently know the secret routes to England.
00:06:40.240 We may seem weary and ragged,
00:06:42.540 but we know secret routes of England's coasts.
00:06:46.160 In the Gotham Knights Batman game,
00:06:48.700 apparently all the NPCs are gay.
00:06:51.460 There's this guy.
00:06:52.740 We've been flirting, and he asked me out,
00:06:55.120 and I maybe said yes.
00:06:57.900 And how about this in The Last of Us 2?
00:07:01.060 This is my favorite example.
00:07:02.740 Some bigot sandwiches.
00:07:04.560 I think I had a few of those before recording this show.
00:07:07.460 What you got there?
00:07:08.320 Bigot sandwiches.
00:07:11.240 They want to force their ideology into video games.
00:07:14.520 So you can't just enjoy the medium.
00:07:16.360 You can't just enjoy the video games
00:07:18.440 because you like playing the video games.
00:07:20.020 You have to be subjected to the political ideology
00:07:23.320 that they want you to see.
00:07:25.660 That ideology is clearly anti-white male.
00:07:29.760 There's no point in pretending that it isn't.
00:07:31.300 And no one is even trying to hide that.
00:07:34.260 For example, take a look at this post
00:07:37.120 from the Xbox head of marketing.
00:07:40.640 Raise your hand if you're not a white man
00:07:43.100 and you buy video games.
00:07:45.220 No hate to white dudes.
00:07:46.860 It's just another day in the gaming industry
00:07:48.960 that minorities have to fight to prove they exist.
00:07:52.020 This anti-white male bias,
00:07:55.900 this anti-white male hate,
00:07:58.140 if you want to call it that,
00:07:59.160 because that's what others would call it
00:08:00.420 if it was against a different group of people,
00:08:02.620 is pervasive in the gaming industry.
00:08:05.460 It is everywhere.
00:08:06.740 And if you dare to question it
00:08:08.260 and dare to notice it,
00:08:09.960 that's when you become the target.
00:08:11.940 But this is starting to backfire.
00:08:14.060 Elon Musk, for example, isn't taking it.
00:08:17.600 Sweet Baby Inc. is an evil blight on the gaming industry.
00:08:20.700 All they do is make games terrible
00:08:22.640 and try to cancel people.
00:08:24.360 They cannot go broke soon enough.
00:08:27.020 It should not be acceptable
00:08:28.140 for any company in the gaming industry
00:08:30.260 to be racist and sexist against white guys.
00:08:34.000 Even UFC star Sean Strickland got in on this.
00:08:36.880 Sean, why aren't you in the UFC game?
00:08:39.060 Years later, being a top contender,
00:08:41.000 wow, your stats are so low.
00:08:42.920 Well, you guys,
00:08:43.680 the video game industry is a leftist cesspool.
00:08:46.580 I am the definition of what these people hate.
00:08:48.800 But I take it as a compliment.
00:08:50.820 Thanks.
00:08:52.440 Perfect.
00:08:53.260 The only way you can actually respond to this.
00:08:55.200 And of course,
00:08:55.840 for the Maoists who happen to work at the BBC,
00:08:59.240 none of that has been sitting too well for them.
00:09:01.320 According to BBC's gaming correspondent,
00:09:04.440 gaming presenter,
00:09:05.740 well, there needs to be a final purge
00:09:07.840 on all of those who disagree with them.
00:09:10.040 A final purge.
00:09:11.680 I wonder what she means by that.
00:09:13.280 Can we agree that for round two of this,
00:09:16.080 it can be the final purge of these kinds of gamers?
00:09:19.300 It's 2024.
00:09:20.600 I've been arguing about this for decades.
00:09:22.760 Can we have a last full detox of these dudes
00:09:25.300 so we can get back to the positive gaming community
00:09:27.540 we have been creating?
00:09:28.720 Why don't you just let people
00:09:29.700 enjoy the games they want to play?
00:09:32.080 None of this is actually about diversity.
00:09:34.760 Most sane and normal people
00:09:36.360 are actually okay with diversity.
00:09:38.460 They don't have a problem with diversity
00:09:40.020 in and of itself.
00:09:41.460 But this is not about diversity.
00:09:43.380 These people who work in the video game industry,
00:09:46.240 who are video game journalists and reporters,
00:09:49.040 if there even is such a thing,
00:09:50.620 hate white people.
00:09:51.740 They say so explicitly.
00:09:53.460 They want to have a final purge
00:09:55.360 of those that disagree with them.
00:09:56.760 They want to not hire white people
00:09:58.280 at video game studios.
00:09:59.980 So none of this is really about diversity.
00:10:02.300 This is about aggressive political conformity.
00:10:05.700 However, we've seen where this all ends up going.
00:10:08.620 These people always end up losing.
00:10:11.060 Because of course,
00:10:12.100 you can only push people too far.
00:10:14.140 The first Gamergate was largely a failure
00:10:16.200 on the side of the dissidents.
00:10:17.880 The activists ended up winning.
00:10:19.740 They still infect video games with this ideology.
00:10:23.000 They still are making video games awful to play.
00:10:25.900 And they're still attacking people
00:10:27.160 who dare to question them.
00:10:28.480 But now things seem different.
00:10:30.420 People are beginning to push back.
00:10:32.260 And eventually, these social activists,
00:10:35.000 the Maoists, will lose.
00:10:37.060 All right, ratio of the week time.
00:10:39.000 The winner this week is the Globe and Mail
00:10:41.140 for publishing this opinion piece by Justin Ling,
00:10:44.620 someone who we have talked about on this program
00:10:46.560 quite a few times before.
00:10:48.440 This one is a special opinion piece
00:10:50.140 that didn't seem to sit too well
00:10:52.040 with Canadians on social media.
00:10:54.000 The title,
00:10:54.960 Canada must empty its cupboards for Ukraine.
00:10:58.500 If you ask me,
00:10:59.700 Canada should be emptying its cupboards
00:11:01.220 for its own military.
00:11:02.660 Apparently, to the Globe and Mail and Justin Ling,
00:11:04.940 earning $13 billion in aid is not enough.
00:11:08.400 We need to be sending more military aid.
00:11:10.360 Obviously, things that we do not have.
00:11:12.300 No mention in this article
00:11:13.280 about the hundreds of thousands of deaths
00:11:15.220 on both sides of this conflict.
00:11:16.740 No mention about the fact
00:11:18.100 that an entire generation of Ukrainian men
00:11:20.540 are dead now.
00:11:21.840 And no mention, of course,
00:11:22.800 as to how Canada could play a peace role
00:11:25.340 in ending this war,
00:11:26.720 to end the suffering and to end the death.
00:11:29.220 Just more money, more aid,
00:11:30.700 more things that we do not have.
00:11:33.040 111 replies to only 38 likes
00:11:35.840 at the time of this recording.
00:11:38.020 I think we already did.
00:11:39.500 Defense contractors really appreciated it,
00:11:42.160 one person writes.
00:11:43.640 Cupboards are empty,
00:11:44.740 another person writes.
00:11:45.940 Probably not the opinion
00:11:47.220 that the Globe and Mail
00:11:48.040 were expecting to receive
00:11:49.400 when they wrote this opinion article.
00:11:51.760 All right, everyone,
00:11:52.200 that's going to do it for us
00:11:53.040 this week on the show.
00:11:53.920 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:11:55.420 My name is Harrison Faulkner,
00:11:56.600 and this is Ratio.
00:12:00.700 We'll see you next time.