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Thorn posted...

Since we're talking about the more general discourse around this outside this topic, I'll mention something that I think is just really tiring and maybe a bit responsible for some of the frustration - I'm seeing a lot of the same people who, for example, during the George Floyd protests and calls for Abolish the Police were saying things (in response to "Guys this doesn't poll well, people are going to run to the Republicans" like "Fuck the optics, it isn't the role of activists to make sure everything they do is messaged perfectly, that's for the politicians.", "Working within the system normally hasn't worked.", "The whole point is to disrupt people's lives and call attention to the issue." but now when it's Hogwarts Legacy it's, Whoa, whoa, whoa. You guys gotta stop this and take a look around. Do you see how this looks? It's setting back the movement!" and it's just fucking exhausting seeing the naked hypocrisy.

Not saying that's true of anyone here but it's hard not to let that frustration bleed into responses when seeing that argument even if the hypocrisy component isn't necessarily present.

You are going to lose people when comparing a murder to a video game release.

Should you lose people? No. But you are going to because the bad connection isn't immediately obvious.

That being said I am usually a whore for optics but I will say fuck polling lol