Games about Hate speech

post #10

Crewmates

You know, when we started the blog we didn’t expect that it would receive so much negative attention. All these mean words towards us and other members of this community reached a level that is too high!

Now there seems to be also a formed group against us, complete with Hashtag and logo.

We do think that this is NOT acceptable. This kind of behavior is called ‘hate speech’ and in some countries there are laws against it.

Since we truly believe that playing is also a great method for learning, we looked for games that could teach us something about this topic!

We found an interesting project that developed 4 nice games!

You can find them all here: https://www.playyourrole.eu/video-games/ or download them through your app store, if you prefer mobile.

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Social Threads simulate social interactions online and the player must react with the good action; in YouTuber Simulator you are a YT streamer and your goal is to keep a balance in your life.

In Divide et impera you become aware of actual mechanisms used to manipulate people in social media, while in deplatforming you must try to stop a hate campaign spreading through the net.

Try out a couple of these and let us know in the comment section what you think about them!

I really like Divide et impera as instance, cause it made me feel quite uncomfortable!

Remember that we must think about the impact of our words, the impact of hate speech towards others 🙂

For next time Nick is preparing an interesting article about GamerGate, to see together how all this hate can have negative repercussions on the world of gamers (a world we love).

C ya soon crewmates!