I think there was a tipping point for the populace at large pushing back on this garbage and I think the catalyst was October 7th. I've seen a lot more people not tolerating these lunatics since that terrible day.
That was the moment for me, seeing how the people on college campuses were acting as well as the president of Harvard's testimony. The American public education system is teaching K-12 in a way that produces these sorts of people that used to only be seen on college campuses, constantly criticizing and attacking things, not producing things normal people want. The kind of education that teaches the English Language so that people unironically use the phrase "cis white males." If from what I've gathered is true, it's an education that prioritizes oppressor/oppressed and seeks to imbue students with a lens that sees things that way only and the words they can use to zero in on who they should hate. They must be miserable, unable to guiltlessly enjoy the safety, happiness and prosperity that their country affords them. I really wish I could get a rundown of what a cycle of public education is like nowadays, if there's sources or youtube videos anybody has I'd appreciate them.
I think a moderate position, at least regarding entertainment,
and depending on the project, could be "Okay, don't just make
all the characters good looking." Or, "Consider features that aren't typically caucasian when doing character design." I think some Nintendo games were done that way in the past few years rather than outright adopting the "Sweet Baby" approach. That could be a moderate way of carefully working through these crazy times without going totally "heterophobic" haha. And I do use that word seriously, because the tweets from the types of people who take the "Sweet Baby" approach (which is clearly not just limited to Sweet Baby consulted projects) actually could be called "heterophobic" in addition to racist.
I think that for a lot of people, the openly displayed heterophobia that Sweet Baby and their types display is the big one, that's the big common denominator that links most of us together against them, we don't mind seeing more characters with non-caucasian features, but please make them good looking or reasonably good looking and keep the lewdness in the games! I've now taken to using the ESRB ratings to find the games that have "suggestive themes" as a sign that those games will still feel well rounded. Typically they're non-American, and it's how I've guided myself through these times to still find games to enjoy. I think of heterosexual aesthetics, lewdness in entertainment, attractive attire and showing some skin as the heterosexual majority's version of "gay pride and gay pride parades." I think there's a video out there where PlayStation employees are participating in a gay pride parade. All the lewdness in that parade, I don't mind that if that's their thing. But, we're in a situation now where Gay Pride Parades are celebrated, while displays of heterosexuality or aesthetics that straight people would appreciate are being neutered in commercially produced entertainment. Doesn't oppressor/oppressed only work when the majority is being oppressed by a minority (yep, I did try reading some of Freire's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed to better understand their mindset and the situation in Brazil during his time)? So why a small group dictate to the straight majority, that's backwards, even in their ideology as shown in Freire's book. They'd be "leftist oppressors" to use Freire's words.
