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The Mobile Pride Event Tone Deaf Injustice 2 Target LGBTQ + Characters

When celebrating a real world event, there are ways to do it and ways not to do it. Chalk this one as a way not to do it. June is the month of pride and to celebrate, injustice 2 mobile has started organizing an event in the game for the occasion. The problem is that apparently there was no one in the development team with the meaning of saying it was a bad idea. Instead of having players rewarded for playing or doing something positive as a LGBTQ + character as Ivy poison, they have made target and fight Poison Ivy, again and again. As a general rule, when you talk about a group that has historically mistreated, abused, tortured, violated and treated as something less than human, you do not want to perpetuate violence against him. Can you imagine if a game organized an AAPI event on racism by doing a boss race with Asian characters? Or given additional points for being beaten black enemies during the month of black history? Of course, injustice 2 mobile is a fighting game and each ch...