god this thread is such a fucking depressing read
one of the worst parts to me is the ratio of people who understand that it's unacceptable to bash the LGBT community and use blatantly racist language and those who defend its use. Like is it that hard to just not be a degenerate to others, and ignore them or use regular trash talk/banter?
You take a quick glance at our community and quotes like this one from Cornpop's twitter make sense: we raise thousands for teams to attend intercontinental competitions, many more thousands for various charity causes, and produce talents that go on to do amazing things in other games (Lange creating nodeCG and working with GDQ, Dashner working production for a number of high-tier esport events are the two that come to my mind as a producer myself).
However, once you get pulled into the community, you find incredibly quickly that it's filled with nothing but toxicity, circlejerks, and blatant bigotry that's widespread through the competitive scene globally. Honestly seeing not only events like this occur, but also the way that many in the community respond makes me very embarrassed to call myself a part of the community.