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Please do not harass the person being discussed, if you come across their account do not engage just report and block. This is not meant to be a witch-hunt.

I think we as a fandom really need to start holding role play blogs more accountable because I’ve noticed an uptick in people blatantly using their rp as an convenient excuse to be bigoted and behave like absolute pieces of shit. It’s not cute or funny, it’s fucking weird. Calling other fans “illegals” and telling them to die under the guise of you “just being in character” is just a shitty farce because you know you won’t get away with it otherwise. People will treat acting like a bigot is just some cute costume they can take on and off while ignoring the fact that even if it’s “just a joke” it still harms poc, especially in a political climate where people are being ripped from their families and imprisoned for the color of their skin.

Saying you’re not racist while spewing abhorrent shit and excusing it as me just being a negative nancy doesn’t make you any less of a damn bigot. I am begging some of my fellow Coyle fans to get their head out of their ass and stop acting like his bigotry is just some silly fun little quirk that you get to joke about. It’s honestly not even just Coyle fans, this is a behavior I have seen for multiple other white characters and it’s genuinely disturbing. The romanticization of hate symbols and groups such as Blue Lives Matter, the kkk, the confederate flag, and Nazi imagery is just getting out of hand. This is not to say that you can’t discuss these topics, because we can and should but you must do it in a respectful serious manner instead of doing the opposite. It is disrespectful to survivors and victims of such vile hatred. I genuinely tried to give this person some grace and a chance to clarify themselves but clearly they are not going to listen and I doubt anyone else will say anything about it so here we are.

Just to clarify before someone decides to misunderstand and pull a “oh so you hate waffles” on me, I have absolutely nothing against roleplay blogs for Coyle or roleplay blogs in general but I think it’s important to remember that just because you are roleplaying as a hateful character doesn’t mean you have to go all the damn way, which is something I think a majority of the roleplayers in this fandom understand but sadly there’s always a few rotten apples. Honestly “being in character” is just a shitty excuse in general like I don’t see Trager or Eddie roleplayers sexually harassing others and if they did the fandom would rightfully crucify them for it, so why is it okay to say racist shit under the guise of just being roleplay? Just because “there’s worse in the source material” doesn’t mean you get to do this shit and it honestly just shows you have absolutely 0 media literacy skills, the difference is that Red Barrels doesn’t glorify this shit and is critiquing it while you on the other hand are just being a edgy little shit. You’re not supposed to laugh with the characters in this game when they say bigoted shit, you’re supposed to LAUGH AT THEM. The true cherry on top of the whole shit cake is using AAVE while acting like it’s a joke to be racist.