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But why would you be attempting to offend the minority when they're more likely to be a white dude? Something like virgin, rapist or pedophile would probably actually upset someone more.

Actually scratch that gamers often brag about rape

And they use virgin/pedo insults too. Hell, those insults get thrown around *all the time* right here on GameFAQs, CE especially. I also recall plenty of people using "autism" as an insult, and then there's the hundred variants of "******" the internet has come up with. (Hell, I got auto-flagged for even trying to say the word, that's how pronounced it was on this site just a couple of years ago.)

It's the principle reason I don't pay any mind to online insults, in-game or not, because it seems like *nobody* is safe from being targeted when you really think about it, even the "white male gamer" is assumed to be inherently "toxic" nowadays, no exceptions, creating a new prejudice and slur from a new audience. (IE: They've become the monster they were hunting.) It's even more silly to care when I remember that the most mouthy shit-talk spewers are typically children, the grand majority of whom I can't identify the gender or race of anyway (even on voice chat) so for all I know it's a black kid or a little girl dropping some of those racist and sexist remarks. Shit, I'm bi, and even I drop the F-bomb from time to time.

Personally I don't mind that more people are into video games, so I don't give a single fuck about "gatekeeping" and the like, at the same time though, I also know it's impossible to rinse the community's mouth out with soap, especially as the number of players increases. Catch-22 and all that.
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