Rust is a game lots of different people should be able to enjoy. However, queer folks and BIPOC have to enjoy with tolerance not only for the far right idealogy that pervades most servers, but also for the outright hate.
While on the rustez scourge server, “MAGA” is a username that came up, and while I understand the “very fine people on both sides” folks here are going to say it’s free speech, there is no denying what “MAGA” is meant to evoke. There is also no denying it is a firm and aggressive political statement, that 50% of us will agree holds the same weight to us that ACAB means to you.
In a game about looting, destruction of property, and power, players carried on in the chat about how upsetting it was to see Black people protesting, and how “destruction of property” should not be glorified. This turned into conspiracy theories about China and sharing of YouTube videos from dangerously misinformed sources. I asked the chat to remain apolitical and was met with some exceptionally naive replies. Including that because I used the word political, that I, in fact, was the only person “talking” about politics.
Point being, I am concerned that admins have already proven that they are ill equipped and irresponsible to be attempting to “lead” a discourse about political neutrality - something that only white folks believe exists. And something that could not exist when you are willfully ignoring the education you are receiving about Blue Lives Matter, or Thin Blue Line, or whatever white supremacist propganda you are going to drop next.
oh also ACAB.
