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So I'm just going to straight up reply to the last part first. But like, you're acting as if I don't want to engage in it because I'm not religious or I think it's like, messy. I don't really have a problem with messy and I have complained to my own friends many times about the sanitized nature of Blaseball. You know what else I've complained about? | So I'm just going to straight up reply to the last part first. But like, you're acting as if I don't want to engage in it because I'm not religious or I think it's like, messy. I don't really have a problem with messy and I have complained to my own friends many times about the sanitized nature of Blaseball. You know what else I've complained about? | ||
| − | I've complained about the racist way Malik Destiny's page talks about Malik's home country. The frankly colonial and orientalist way the Coffee Cult page is written, the ambiguously brown nature of many | + | I've complained about the racist way Malik Destiny's page talks about Malik's home country. The frankly colonial and orientalist way the Coffee Cult page is written, the ambiguously brown nature of many characters' pages such as Dunlap Figueroa, the transmisogynistic, ableist, racist and fetishistic reading baked into Ortiz Lopez's previous wiki pages and even the current one, the colonialist and whitewashed nature of Luis Acevado's page. Honestly, I don't even want to check the wiki but there's been multiple conversations about the way religions, especially Islam but extending to others, is written so poorly in the fandom and how that lore is also posted on the wiki. I'm sure I can keep digging and asking my friends for more examples because multiple people across different teams are working on fixing it right now, and as we speak I'm working on edits to Dunlap and Ortiz's page with the help of my teammates. I'm not trying to say I'm better than you or whatever, I want to just make a point of my priorities on this wiki. To be explicit, I think this page is problematic because the community and fans have been widely laissez-faire regarding real world religions, cultures and countries and such content has been hosted and platformed on the wiki, and I think putting it at the forefront in the Navbox is silly when a) it is not relevant ("closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered." I can not possibly understand how a page made by a person who is no longer in maincord, never mentioned in maincord and not linked to any pages is any more relevant to TDE than Ruby Tuesday Memorial Tim Hortons) b) really seems to encourage weird readings of religions in a way that is...really heavily influenced by Christianity in America. |
In addition to be frank, I have no idea how on earth this is supposed to an especially good critique of like, Christianity? In a way that so stridently needs to be protected? Like I'm not saying bad content can't live on the wiki, I'm saying I don't really understand how this is so great and relevant to Discipline Era lore and players that it must stay. | In addition to be frank, I have no idea how on earth this is supposed to an especially good critique of like, Christianity? In a way that so stridently needs to be protected? Like I'm not saying bad content can't live on the wiki, I'm saying I don't really understand how this is so great and relevant to Discipline Era lore and players that it must stay. | ||
Like, I get that I'm in your bad books but to be absolutely fair, even though it is not strictly the wiki staff team's fault, it is not as if the Blaseball wiki is great when it comes to the experiences of those who aren't white Christian Americans. Like, fine we can disagree on point B. But to be fair, I really don't understand this page as we come up with increasingly specific and odd ways to define "relevant". | Like, I get that I'm in your bad books but to be absolutely fair, even though it is not strictly the wiki staff team's fault, it is not as if the Blaseball wiki is great when it comes to the experiences of those who aren't white Christian Americans. Like, fine we can disagree on point B. But to be fair, I really don't understand this page as we come up with increasingly specific and odd ways to define "relevant". | ||
