Here is my issue with the decision.

I am extremely progressive and extremely active. I do a lot of outreach to communities heavily weighted in either direction politically. (LGBTQ, disadvantaged youth programs, veteran assistance, and occasional charity events for the disgustingly wealthy.)

I believe that people are generally good. Deep down we all want a secure future for our friends, family and children. We want a spouse to love and to have enough time and health to enjoy it.

It's important to remember it's ideas that we disagree with, not people. Once you ascribe a value to an entire group of people you are dehumanizing them.

That dehumanizing process is exactly the thing that causes racism, sexism, classism and and homophobia.

The way to fight against racism and sexism is through education and inclusion.

There are a lot of people out there trying to make a difference in society by humanizing the political "boogeyman" they've been taught to hate.

Riot's decision may seem minor, but in some cases it has set my progress back years.

Just one week ago, you had a half dozen threads demanding Riot put forth policies to combat sexist treatment of women. For once, we had nearly the entire community focused on this. Even though there was a brigade from the alt-right subs, the sexist comments were consistently voted down.

Fast forward to the last two day, those same sexist comments from the same people are up voted.

Reddit is a microcosm of what happens in real life. For the past 6 years the alt-right has created a straw man of liberals who want to take away the rights of white males and make them second-class citizens.

In the past, you could approach this argument as a straw man. That those are the beliefs of a minority that are at the outskirts of the movement and they have no power.

Now, they have an immediate example of the largest convention and one of the largest gaming companies excluding them for who they are as people, not for the ideas that they hold.

From this moment forward, I cannot reach these people and help them change their views. I cannot defend RIOT's actions because they can immediately claim I'm using the "No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.

They can now always say "I still hate XXXX, except you're one of the good ones."

Riot's actions today have undone years of progress trying to humanize minorities and I'm furious.

Here is my issue with the decision.

I am extremely progressive and extremely active. I do a lot of outreach to communities heavily weighted in either direction politically. (LGBTQ, disadvantaged youth programs, veteran assistance, and occasional charity events for the disgustingly wealthy.)

I believe that people are generally good. Deep down we all want a secure future for our friends, family and children. We want a spouse to love and to have enough time and health to enjoy it.

It's important to remember it's ideas that we disagree with, not people. Once you ascribe a value to an entire group of people you are dehumanizing them.

That dehumanizing process is exactly the thing that causes racism, sexism, classism and and homophobia.

The way to fight against racism and sexism is through education and inclusion.

There are a lot of people out there trying to make a difference in society by humanizing the political "boogeyman" they've been taught to hate.

Riot's decision may seem minor, but in some cases it has set my progress back years.

Just one week ago, you had a half dozen threads demanding Riot put forth policies to combat sexist treatment of women. For once, we had nearly the entire community focused on this. Even though there was a brigade from the alt-right subs, the sexist comments were consistently voted down.

Fast forward to the last two day, those same sexist comments from the same people are up voted.

Reddit is a microcosm of what happens in real life. For the past 6 years the alt-right has created a straw man of liberals who want to take away the rights of white males and make them second-class citizens.

In the past, you could approach this argument as a straw man. That those are the beliefs of a minority that are at the outskirts of the movement and they have no power.

Now, they have an immediate example of the largest convention and one of the largest gaming companies excluding them for who they are as people, not for the ideas that they hold.

From this moment forward, I cannot reach these people and help them change their views. I cannot defend RIOT's actions because they can immediately claim I'm using the "No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.

They can now always say "I still hate XXXX, except you're one of the good ones."

Riot's actions today have undone years of progress trying to humanize minorities and I'm furious.

As anyone with a job that ever interacts with a customer, you should know that when you are interacting with the public, you are Riot. I know that. When I go out in public with a corporate logo on full display, I am acting as a representative for my company. In the eyes of the public, I am my company. PR is the job of every employee who interacts with the public in an official capacity, not just those in the PR department. And any time an employee directly associated with the company (with the logo, or official designation, etc.) communicates with the public, it is done so in an official capacity.

PR it all you want. You closed off a room from men. That's textbook discrimination. Y'all are basically saying "We agree with DZK we just don't like the language he used."

Discrimination is wrong.

This is ridiculous though, they could have given priority to women or include a panel about the treatment of women. This isn't being provided the same benefit as a man, it's being shown exclusive content because of how you were born. Instead of equality, this is striving for imbalance, almost in a 'well you had it good, now it's our turn!' way.

This also assumes that women are weak and need special advantages to beat men, instead of the same tools and material

Yeah I think the circle jerk is going too far. The only issue I had with the panels was the fact that they didn't just mirror them so both groups would have access to the same content but DzK's comments were completely out of line. I don't necessarily think he should be fired but riot should look into more defined guidelines on how employees especially those in higher positions like Daniel conduct themselves on social media.

Here is my issue with the decision.

I am extremely progressive and extremely active. I do a lot of outreach to communities heavily weighted in either direction politically. (LGBTQ, disadvantaged youth programs, veteran assistance, and occasional charity events for the disgustingly wealthy.)

I believe that people are generally good. Deep down we all want a secure future for our friends, family and children. We want a spouse to love and to have enough time and health to enjoy it.

It's important to remember it's ideas that we disagree with, not people. Once you ascribe a value to an entire group of people you are dehumanizing them.

That dehumanizing process is exactly the thing that causes racism, sexism, classism and and homophobia.

The way to fight against racism and sexism is through education and inclusion.

There are a lot of people out there trying to make a difference in society by humanizing the political "boogeyman" they've been taught to hate.

Riot's decision may seem minor, but in some cases it has set my progress back years.

Just one week ago, you had a half dozen threads demanding Riot put forth policies to combat sexist treatment of women. For once, we had nearly the entire community focused on this. Even though there was a brigade from the alt-right subs, the sexist comments were consistently voted down.

Fast forward to the last two day, those same sexist comments from the same people are up voted.

Reddit is a microcosm of what happens in real life. For the past 6 years the alt-right has created a straw man of liberals who want to take away the rights of white males and make them second-class citizens.

In the past, you could approach this argument as a straw man. That those are the beliefs of a minority that are at the outskirts of the movement and they have no power.

Now, they have an immediate example of the largest convention and one of the largest gaming companies excluding them for who they are as people, not for the ideas that they hold.

From this moment forward, I cannot reach these people and help them change their views. I cannot defend RIOT's actions because they can immediately claim I'm using the "No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.

They can now always say "I still hate XXXX, except you're one of the good ones."

Riot's actions today have undone years of progress trying to humanize minorities and I'm furious.