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But again, consider the fact that the "default" identity online is being a white, straight male. And there aren't any slurs for that. If you're a woman, or black, or lgbt, people will seize upon that to push buttons. But to insult a white straight male, there's no slur. Would that kind of environment look like that if white, straight men weren't mainly the offenders?

As for bigotry, I whole-heartedly agree that it's never acceptable. But identifying an endemic problem in a specific demographic isn't bigoted.

I don't think the first point is really relevant, as I don't think the online gaming environment is anything other than a reflection of society at large and white men being the majority of western society is what leads there not being much in the way of specific slurs for us. If every white guy online never said another bad thing, it wouldn't result in the creation of new anti-white slurs or cracker becoming more common, you'd still basically just see other groups throwing slurs at each other. You'd have to change society as a whole for that to change, I think

I agree that it's not bigotry to acknowledge a specific group tends to have a certain problem, however I do think it veers into bigoted territory when people speak as if members of that group are the only ones who have that problem even when there's no evidence to support the claim. I don't want to suggest that white men isn't a demographic with a lot of scumbags in it, just that removing the white male scumbags wouldn't equate to no scumbags existing anymore.
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