I’m fucking done. I’m leaving Tumblr, at least for now. I can’t take the bullshit Alliance apologists. These people seriously do not see the real world connections here. They’re justifying genocide in a fictional universe, and maybe that’s all it is, but it’s literally way too close to reality for me.
As a queer woman, I can NEVER abide people abusing other people. I’ve been a Horde player since Vanilla World of Warcraft because I admire the connection that the peoples of the Horde have to each other. The Horde may not be real, but the connection to real life is still there: I still see the way the Horde sticks together despite repeated assaults against them by imperialist members of the Alliance. Yes, as with any group, there have been those who are awful, but through it all, the majority of people of the Horde have been there for each other when no one else has been.
I can’t deal with the constant erasure of those crimes over and over again at the same time as highlighting all the lowest points for the Horde. For that reason, I’m leaving Tumblr, at least until things change. I’m tired of having to deal with racists who are so unwilling to examine their own bigotry, even when it’s translated to fantasy counterpart cultures. For fuck’s sake, it should be EASIER to do that from a distance, and yet here we are, with people defending the “European” faction against the faction based off of various non-white cultures. That’s not a coincidence.
