Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "The Lunduke Journal gets a little Political!" video.

  1. Most tech used to be apolitical, but times have changed. Used to be the same with video games, except the times when censorship forced things into politics. Now, it's gamergate woke nonsense that unfortunately the AAA companies take seriously.
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  2. Well, all the libs complained that you can't separate politics, so there you go, you got the news and politics together now.
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  3. More like others are scared about getting canceled by the woke Linux mob.
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  4.  @act.13.41  - That's part of the fear of the woke mob, because advertisers get scared off at controversy, and having the woke mob go after them. It's all about the bullying by something that ironically originated out of anti-bullying campaigns in schools.
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  5. ​ @AllLogarithmsEqual - No, it's not a reasonable concern, but having that concern can hint to someone's bias or view. I don't see how Lunduke can be said to be any more or less honest just for consolidating his content. It seems more that he's conceding to how you can't be apolitical any more. I get it, to a point, being that, in the 80's and 90's, video games and computer magazines were about as apolitical as you can get. They weren't without their biases. Magazines that were published by, say Nintendo, Sega, Atari, and Sony, they obviously were going to write exclusively about the consoles and the games on the consoles of their parent companies. But, regardless if they were exclusive to a company, or included any and all things related to video games, it was the common expectation that they would just keep to writing game reviews, talk on the tech and peripherals of the current or up and coming consoles, as well as events, like the E3 expo. About the only time there was anything political talked about in the magazines was when politicians were talking about censoring or banning games, and how games shouldn't be taken so seriously, that it was more a problem with bad parenting. Nowadays, you have game journos that are more like the censorship advocates in the 90's Or, for whatever reason, they have to inject some random rant about how they hate Trump or JK Rowling that has nothing to do with gaming whatsoever. That Lunduke doesn't go out of his way to bash Biden as the worst president ever, or talk about how Stephen King should stick to writing horror novels because, even as bad as he is at writing those, his politics suck worse, isn't to me hiding his politics, or somehow being dishonest. As it is, I don't even know what his views on Biden and Stephen King are. But I'm just saying that you don't have to go out of your way to be overtly political to prove what your politics are, nor even have to state them. Yet you can't get away from reporting about the politics in tech that leads to things like the Hyperland - Freedesktop controversy, and I think it a fair assessment to say that certain voices in the opensource and Linux movement can be quite extreme left, especially when they are calling for people who hold views different from them to be barred from Opensource and using Linux. Might as well just say Linux and Opensource are free and open to everyone, except if you are right wing. At least someone is reporting on the bias, because many of us are leaving the corporate world because of similar toxic polarization. For it seems you can't love tech, games, a lot of things, if you don't follow the leftist cult, because they demand allegiance to them, or else.
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