LessThanKate wrote...
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The worst I think, honestly is that people use the label 'racist' to apply to Ashley overlooking the fact that she has at least some right to be distrustful of aliens what with the bad family history and all that and lack of personal experience, but they seem to think that they are allowed to dislike Ashley's religious side entirely based on the fact that she is religious.
i.e Ashley isn't allowed to have a few prejudices based on bad personal history but they are allowed to hate religious people just because they don't like them. That I always found rather nasty, because Ashley's isn't bigotry or discrimination as much as it is just prejudice but with the people ragging on her and indeed all people around the world for being religious, there really isn't any of taht same justification.
So in a sense in their effort to hate Ashley for being bigoted, they reveal that they themselves are bigoted.
Plus, I guess I missed the memo where suddenly after years of slaughtering aliens in Halo, Half Life, Quake, Gears of War, Crysis, Contra, Space Invaders, Dark Void, Duke Nukem, the Conduit, Metroid and so very many others, suddenly gamers are the leading authority on the ethical rights of aliens.
Still, discussing the hate is such a... hateful thing to do, so let's just overlook that and try and be happy again:


That should do it.,