I am an aspiring game designer. That is my career plan. That is what I& #39;m going to school for.

But with the way things are going now, and how toxic the gaming community (both ends of it) is for Zionist Jews like myself, I am incredibly nervous.

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On one hand, you& #39;ve got the far-right/white supremacist gamers who will balk at pretty much anything made by a Jew, let alone from a staunchly pro-Jewish (and *gasp* Zionist) perspective. Not that I would want their support anyway.
On the other hand, you have the more "progressive"/social justice minded gamers. You& #39;d think I& #39;d fit in better there, right?

Well, no. They& #39;re just as antisemitic and toxic as the far-right. In fact, their views are often impossible for me to distinguish.
Take the forum ResetERA. I was a member there for a time. They claim to be for tolerance and firmly opposed to all forms of racism, including antisemitism. Yet my experience there, as a Zionist Jew, was horrifying. After only a few months, I logged out and never returned.
Both ends of the spectrum combined make me wonder if I really have any shot at all, given who (or more specifically, what) I am.

Or will I be canceled from the get-go?
To say that ResetERA (and probably most of the "left" gaming community in general) is hostile to Jewish/Israeli point of view would be a crushing understatement. I don& #39;t care how many token Jews they can line up in their defense. The antisemitism I saw there was very real.
Just typing out this thread makes me nervous. I am liable to get harassed (assuming anyone sees this), and that is not something I am looking forward to.

My hope is that anyone who does see this will take the time to actually listen, instead of gaslighting me again.
When I was on that forum, I was harassed, told I should kill myself (on one of the ResetERA Discord chats I was in), called a racist, a Nazi, gaslighted and met with hostility whenever I tried to talk about antisemitism.
And when I tried to ask for more Jewish representation in games (because let& #39;s face it - there& #39;s next to none), I was met with more gaslighting and "huh? Jews are white. They don& #39;t need representation".

We& #39;re not white. We& #39;re indigenous Levantine. And we do need representation.
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