The good, the bad, and a BLM banner.
Look, discord, I can't say if this is something you were paid for, or if this was on your own agenda, but i'm going to be frank with this.
I just want to hang out with my friends and play games.
Yes, racism is a real problem in the world and needs to be handled, however, the easiest way to tear down those barriers is simply to move past them. A wall only works until you walk around it.
Do I support fighting for equality? yes. But there is a difference between being able to let bygones be bygones, setting aside our differences, or simply moving on with our lives like civilized, intelligent, reasonable adults.
And forcing your opinion down someone's throat. It's fine that you made an article, even though i disagree with a handful of the things you said, that's just part of america. Everyone is allowed to speak their mind, even if it means hearing something you disagree with. And you know what? I think it's good that you are making an active effort to try and combat something that egregious.
This is not the way to do it.
I'll be perfectly honest, I would not be upset over this if it wasn't for one detail. One tiny, single little detail. You won't let me close your banner. The only excuse you're allowed to have for that, is it was a mistake in the code, and the banner is supposed to be close-able. It is an eyesore, not because i'm racist, but because I've heard the story a thousand times before, and i will hear it a thousand times again.
I want to move on.
Discord is my favorite platform to be on to hang out with friends and organize my hobbies. Infact, it's the only platform I use anymore. What you have is something great, something unique, something I want to cherish. I can't do that if I have to choke down that little message every time I look at your app.
I'm NOT saying to stop supporting black rights.
All I want is the ability to CLOSE YOUR BRIGHT BLUE BANNER, and move on with my life like a normal, rational, reasonable adult.
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Fully agree, while this is a serious issue, I don't want to be blinded by a bright blue banner, that I cannot close, for something completely unrelated to my business.
Edit: Restart discord and you can click the X and it actually works.13 -
First of all, ignoring the problem is not the best way to help it my dear friend, I have no idea what type of logic ever got you into thinking that ignoring the problem means it doesnt exist, thats such a bad way to try to solve things that only makes them grow harder
Second of all, I dont know if not closing it was a bug or not, however everyone on my discord servers "hundreds of people really"
were able to close it after we simply restarted discord and the issue was fixed
issues happen, Idk if they intended it to be this way or was it just an issue but yeah those happens
Discord is a private platform, they will support any cause they want, generally known that many furries help run discord and its known that they are generally leftist/liberal..etc so it makes sense for them to support this cause
But its easier to assume everyone is biased and paid to do this
its literally a small banner that took what 2% of my monitor ? it looked unpleasant a bit sure yeah but man ...the amount of anti-BLM comments that came out JUST cuz of that very small banner made me realize maybe thats why discord did this-16 -
"the amount of anti-BLM comments that came out JUST cuz of that very small banner made me realize maybe thats why discord did this"
guys we put a dumb divisive potical message you can't close in discord at a really divisive time, you're the ones for getting offended when we download commie agitprop to your pc
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It's not about blm, it's about the fact that sitting having my morning coffee in Europe while checking discord, does not entail me being subjected to any sort of political agenda.
If I want to read about the US, I'll do so on my own terms, but media these days is like 80% united states politics it feels that way at least, and it gets kind of old reading about the US tearing themselves apart from the inside because they can't wrap their heads around that there should be room and rights for everyone, then perhaps it is time to crash the white house, if anything, I find it more egregious that once again indigenous people are forgotten, a mere side note, just because they don't have the numbers to protest.
Honestly it's fine that media online is so enthralled with the blm movement, because it is a serious matter and long overdue, but at least I turn on the news expecting to hear it.
I can't help but feel that I'm feeling a bit entitled that my morning coffee was ruined, because I couldn't close a banner, but I got to draw a line somewhere if I'm not to go mad and that line is cooperate [insert any movement] pr pish posh.
tl:dr: silence brand
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Saying "anti-BLM comments" is (perhaps intentionally) misleading.
Black lives matter (lower case letters) is a sentiment. And yes, of course they do. Black Lives Matter (capital letters) is a political organization linked to the Democratic party. If you try to donate on blacklivesmatter dot com, it takes you to actblue, which basically ends up giving that money to Democrats running for office.
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Many good points made here, so I'll add one: The message comes across as particularly tone-deaf when you consider that Tencent owns a stake of undisclosed size in Discord. Part of a $158 million dollar deal so that doesn't sound all that small to me. Just think about the implications of that for a moment...
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I don't want to see US religion propoganda in my pc
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