gotta love coming back to yet another discussion about racism in the sims 2 community...some of yall dont wanna hear us, you just wanna DANCE and thats the fucking problem
I wouldn't usually reblog a post to write my own views on anything considered "community-drama", but I don't think this is just another "community-drama".
Yes, sims 2 players should talk about racism, and yes it should be done publicly, no matter how some people may react. I don't know how a community that understands that this game from 2004 needs to be modded to be less homophobic, transphobic (even if the game wasn't seen as such at the time), and fat-phobic, is repeatedly, and mind-numbingly defensive when it comes to making the same game less white-eurocentric.
If we all agree that the world is still misogynistic, queerphobic and racist, despite recent political and cultural milestones, and that this influences even the worldview of people who aren't trying to reinforce any prejudicial views, we should also agree that pretending racism doesn't exist without active malice is conformist nonsense. Nobody will make social justice from playing ts2, but nobody pointing the contradictions apparent in this community is expecting that to be the case.
If anyone actually reads this, could we at least agree to try not to be in such a hurry to say "not me" when people are pointing out any form of race-based biases they've noticed? Instead, what if people listen to accounts of experiences they haven't had themselves? (I know, revolutionary!) This doesn't mean you can't argue about any particular point, ask about something you want to understand better, or even try to argue what you believe is important context and nuance about how you view this community, but to pretend the issue isn't real, or that we shouldn't talk about it because people should simply make the cc they want to make? However you initially feel about the choice of words in any posts discussing this topic, is it so hard to focus on the content of what's being said, and why so many different people have said these same things over the course of 2 decades, instead of reducing their arguments to how they're being expressed? You can't possibly think that using skin 4 once a while in your game makes you immune to racial biases being culturally enforced for generations. This isn't specifically about you.
