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Gaza conflict embroils Game Awards (www.axios.com)
submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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More than 70 recipients of The Game Awards' Future Class are calling for a statement to be read at next week's The Game Awards, on their behalf, in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's not what I'm saying at all.

This isn't a protest, it's an open letter, and it's at a games event. Most people will ignore it, and those that don't will likely forget it happened five minutes later. It's not going to reach anyone in a position of power to change anything, so it's merely virtue signaling since media orgs will report on it after the fact.

If you want to protest, do it in public. Organize at state/province and national capitols, organize at universities, wear Palestinian clothes in public, fly flags, etc. Asking a games event organizer to read an open letter will do absolutely nothing, but maybe some virtue signaling for whatever political party uses the same talking points. If you want real change, be noisy in public, run for office, etc, open letters do nothing.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We all just read an article about it, so this is obviously the most impactful and public place these people could have possibly gone to protest...

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're only talking about it because:

  • the article has a provocative heading
  • someone bothered to post it
  • Lemmy skews hard toward lefties who support Palestine

Most people outside lemmy would never hear about it.

They would've had much more impact had they organized a protest outside the event (or at a local government building for that matter) and attracted media attention. That would've reached a much broader audience, and an audience who is looking to be informed about current, non-gaming events.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They would have had much more of an impact if they'd simply protested in a way that didn't get in your way? You certainly wouldn't be complaining about these protests happening outside the event has that happened.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure what you're on about. A game event has a relatively small audience, and that audience doesn't have any particular edge in effecting change vs the public as large. So protest in public where more people are watching. You're just going to get a lot of people rolling their eyes at this kind of event.