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Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds by mensetmanusman on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:09AM (#25467183)
Broad strokes are not useful for real discussion (e.g. replace ‘eastern-European’ with ‘blacks’ or ‘Jews’ and you will see how it reads to your audience.)
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds by Der_Einzige on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:36PM (#25469616)
Why are you being downvoted for telling the truth?

Eastern Europe is extremely xenophobic and misogynistic. Have you seen the far right rallies in Ukraine and other eastern european nations? It doesn't matter that the Nazis murdered them years ago! A significant minority of the population of Ukraine is embracing nazi iconography! Seriously!

Listen to how the hungarian, romanian, polish or virtually any other eastern european nations head of states talk. These are not the friends of social justice warriors.

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds by ojnabieoot on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:23AM (#25467333)
It’s true that Central and Eastern European governments have lagged behind North America and Western Europe when it comes to sexual freedom and LGBT rights, and that reactionary views are more widespread in those societies. The problem is that the Republicans in America is exactly as misogynistic and anti-abortion as Law and Justice in Poland. It is quite likely that Roe v Wade will be turned over in America in 2021. These things are not static and can change dramatically in a decade. Trying to make this about national attitudes is a mistake that only leads to confusion and misunderstanding.

And with Poland and Hungary especially, the government has become strongly anti-LGBT in response to increased public support for LGBT rights, as part of a general authoritarian far-right ideology. This complicated political development with a homogenous expression of Hungarian/Polish society.

And in the case of CD Projekt Red in particular: for starters, you can’t claim “golly, those humble Poles just have different views than you American folk” when your game is set in America, is clearly about American culture, was heavily marketed towards Americans, and prominently features major American actors. And CD Projekt Red has repeatedly apologized for their transphobic GOG ad campaign. They are not hicks who are unaware of some Ivory Tower concern by elite American liberals. They are in fact fully aware of what they are doing and they made a moral choice.