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Political preaching in software is starting already

Some time ago I wrote about what will happen to video games if (and very probably when) the social justice ideology succeeds in taking over the entire game industry. How video games will start shoving their politics down your throat whether you want it or not.

Well, it's already happening in other software. Recently the Discord developers decided that they will start preaching their social justice ideology to all of their millions of users, regardless of who they are and which country they are in.


Notice that the "X" close button on the right is slightly grayed out? That's because it's disabled. That message cannot be dismissed. Clicking on that "X" button does nothing. (Sure, it might have been some kind of bug, but I have my doubts.)

And notice the provocative language being used.

But maybe this is just a one-time thing? Maybe they just notified every single one of their millions of users this once, and they aren't going to make this a recurring thing? Except they are:


Sigh. I might have to quit using Discord.

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