Aqui esta um artigo que penso ser bastante interessante.

Feito por John “HarisH” Jones, um jornalista inglês, que faz as suas observações a comportamentos menos próprios que alguns jogadores de Counter-Strike tiveram e têm, como por exemplo racismo.

Aqui ficam com um pouco da “reportagem” deste jornalista:

“Another day passes as I sit at my machine juggling Counter-Strike, emails and IRC within my taskbar. As I flick through my channels I see what’s being said by certain members in the CS community talking about other members who are regarded to be in the more skilled category of CS players. I can’t get my head around why they are not allowed to idle in a certain channel. It’s not because they have a bad attitude or are unsociable in any way; it’s simply because of their skin colour.

Jokes about Black/Indian people (other categories, but these being the main ones) are rampant in everyday life, and it’s only natural to shrug them off and not think of them as anything more than a joke. But what happens when you know a person in the channel is the butt of the joke and gets really offended by them? I myself have witnessed this first hand, verbal assaults on a person’s skin tone and ways of life, attempting to degrade that person to feeling lower than another person simply for the entertainment of everyone else. This is known to be one of the worst methods of abuse as it can effect a person in the long term.

I was writing an end of year project on bullying and racism in the workplace, and through the research that I did, I came to realise that racism on IRC/Counter-Strike servers does infact walk hand in hand with that of which I had studied for uni. Little do people know that the effects racism has on people can lead to such symptoms as loss of confidence, loss of self-esteem, lack of motivation, aggression, acute anxiety, panic attacks, anger and as far fetched as it sounds, murderous thoughts. They then lead onto depression and in extreme cases, suicidal thoughts.”

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