Sometimes admiting you are wrong in your opinion can be harsh.
âIt is my RIGHT as a FANTASY AUTHOR to degrade LGBT people in an online roleplaying game 
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Vixi, I attend Gay pride every year two of my closest friends are gay, I am far from a homophobe and completely support same sex marrage/ relationships etc. You shouldnât jump to conclusions so much in fact this is just deformation.
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Iâm not going to doubt this, but I will ask this question: Why do you feel it necessary to advocate for a less friendly RP environment online when the whole point of pride parades is to allow for greater acceptance of LGBTQ+ people?
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Yes, but actually no. 
Yet you defend homophobia, which is against ToS and itâs not something ingame, people will reach that conclusion pal.
Folk are done saying for her not to rp something that is against the rules, we grew tired of that, just that we will never accept it as good rp and shove it in the void.
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By that metric, go about in game and use IRL racial slurs and stigma and see if you still feel the same.
Homophobia is real. Deeply upsetting and unpleasant experiences relating to homophobia and bigotry are real. Bringing unnecessary and cruel reminders of that into a game we all play for fun in a safe environment (as mandated by Blizzard) is not this weird censorship narrative that forum weirdos like to present.
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What is EU4 
âI really really want to say the n-word in roleplayâ
What
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Yikes. That ainât it.
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The fact you feel a need to bring it up outta thin air is kinda telling my dude.
Certified redditor moment
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Honestly I donât think thereâs much recontextualization there. You quite literally just said that if racial slurs werenât explicitly bannable that theyâd get a free pass in roleplay. And yes, okay, you said you wouldnât personally use them IRL and thus presumably wouldnât use them in-game yourself.
But why on earth would you ever say âyou know what Azeroth could get away with? People bringing IRL racial degradations into the game. That wouldnât bother me at all.â
Your character is not an independent AI. You type out everything you make your character say, man. Incredibly yikes.
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What some people tried to say multiple times nowâŚ
IF your argument is valid (which may well be so) that âRoleplaying a character that doesnât like/accept homosexualsâ violates the ToS, then so too does any warrior or at least any Roleplay that includes fights. (Because then some characters will suffer violence and hurting players is also against the ToS). Also some concepts are problematic because up until the start of classic kaldorei druidism was a predominantly male and priesthood a predominantly female âjobâ. So a character, who still struggles with the new changes could be dubbed sexist (while he is following the establishes lore) and henceforth violate the ToS.
The point some people are trying to make is that it is bigotry if one would report âpotentially homophobic charactersâ, meanwhile totally accepting all-female shield guard units, old male druids who still isnât used to female druids or someone who enjoys a good fight in RP ince in a while. And if all of the latter are âokayâ, even if doing such stuff to PLAYERS violates the ToS, why isnât a character that says âMehâŚno i am not fine with two women marryingâ.
Even if the sole purpose of anti-homosexual characters ist âbeing a villainâ and âbeing overcome/foughtâ, someone has to play them, at least as an NPC, in a story.
All some did to advocate was saying: âIn SOME instances this can be okay storywiseâ. Of course it is NEVER okay to invade other players safe-spaces in RP without any kind of permission. But that goes for EVERY topic, not only this one.
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Itâs a bit mad having to repeatedly try to explain the concept of basic empathy and decency in this thread.
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Because online you have all the controll in the world to see what you want and do what you want. One of my close friends who is gay actually plays a homophobic character - when i asked them why? there response was because i want to. For a lot of people Wow is an escape from normality I donât think it needs to be policed to such an extent. its just an opinion. I donât believe because someone plays a character with certain unkind morals that these reflect their real life opinions. If this was OOC it would be a lot different and i would completely agree.
I genuinely cannot tell if half of you are being serious right now but Iâm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are, and that you arenât just being contrarian for contrarianisms sake.
Just donât bring IRL bigoted views, regardless of if they are your own or otherwise, into a game that has no reason to include them. It isnât difficult.
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Why are you trying to be pedantic to defend homophobia
Whats the gain here i dont see it
It really is this easy, crazy isnt it