Surprise surprise, Riot is donating to LGBT

slippykitten·6/13/2015, 4:12:57 AM·7 votes·1,403 views

I'm sure to garner multitudes of downvotes as well as have this closed down by riot, but it still needs to be said.

The public pandering "try to do what is nice" nonsense doesn't fool me for one. If you honestly think Riot chose that "charity" (i put that in quotes because the money goes mostly to salaries of their employees, which technically makes it a non-profit, not a charity, but w/e) for any other reason than the publicity that goes along with helping the LGBT community, then you're nuts.

I'm not saying the cause of a suicide prevention hotline for youth is bad, of course those exist in many other facets not tied directly to LGBT, but i guess teen suicide is only relevant if your LGBT. I see no statistics that illustrate how many people they actually help, or if anything they do is a benefit. How many suicides were avoided? How many people even called the hotline? Who knows.

You know what i do know? That i personally have three different friends who have lost a child to childhood cancer, but they don't garner nearly as much publicity, so who cares. People are dying in greater raw numbers and demographic numbers, with actual scientific cures that could be found if we would only focus on them instead.

If you think a billion dollar company donated 31k to an LGBT organization out of the goodness of their hearts, go find the common sense you lost years ago. They did it for the applause, and they did it with what is pennies to them. You applaud because you were told that the greatest injustice of our generation is LGBT bullying, and you will downvote me because nobody is allowed to push back against the agenda.

When i talk to my buddy who's 3 year old daughter is battling cancer, ill let him know that maybe someone would care if she was gay.

23 Comments

TheSequelsRBad6/13/2015, 5:07:22 AM4 votes

I upvoted you, and will face the wall of downvotes with you by posting this comment.

4nth0l0gy6/13/2015, 5:14:15 AM4 votes

There are lots of things, important things, wrong with the world. Any and all support to combat those problems is support well given. Just because you know three people who died of cancer doesn't invalidate, for example, the three people I knew who committed suicide primarily because of homophobia.

31K is 'small' on the scale of a billion-dollar company, but it's something. Even if the attention is garnering more fans (I'm pretty sure LGBTQ supporters don't suddenly change their videogame preferences over monetary donations though), I don't think a beneficial, charitable donation should be frowned upon for a bit of potential advertising.

Also, you're probably a homophobe.

Edit**: Riot has run charity for cancer before, as shown here http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2090628

Also, many of the top-donated-to charities in the U.S. are cancer research or support funds. They're not lacking.

Shroom Junkie6/13/2015, 5:57:14 PM4 votes

This is my answer to LGBT: I feel like a black guy. What? No, I'm a white guy. What do you mean then I can't be black? I feel black, I must be black. Science? Science says anatomy, science says I'm white, science says I have a penis, and therefore I cannot be black nor a female nor both. But y'know what fuck science I'm black.

sp4416/13/2015, 5:51:04 AM3 votes

Oh no, they didn't help people you care about, they're such assholes.

WinXOfPower6/14/2015, 6:20:47 PM2 votes

homophobe alert!

Suffocation6/13/2015, 6:55:43 PM2 votes

I have HIV, i'm not complaining about the fact they don't give money for an organization which fight HIV, because there are too much problems in the world, you can't only think about you and what happens juste around you. I'm just happy to see people try to change the world, even if it won't help me, I know it'll help lot of people. The 31K donation is something really good but here Riot speaks about LBGT community, and by this way they make people think about Gay people, because there is too much hate against them, for something they didn't choose but also for something that doesn't affect your life. My best friend is gay, and i don't five a fck, it's my friend. But I know some of gay ppl are alone, bullied everyday at school, at home and hate there life, so YES i think helping LGBT community is a much import as an organization which fight cancer, because anyway, it try to keep everyone alive.

(Sorry If I speak english Badly, not my native language but I really wanted to answer to this post)

Strawberrycocoa6/14/2015, 6:17:41 PM2 votes

Nobody does anything out of pure goodness of their heart. This is true of corporations and it is true of individuals.

Centuros6/14/2015, 2:15:19 AM1 votes

With all the cancer research and donations that have happened over the years, there still isn't a cure. Maybe it's the cancer researchers who really do nothing.

Wickedfates6/14/2015, 4:53:02 PM1 votes

im just curious... so what? i mean, does it matter who they donate their money to? does it matter that they do it for publicity, pr, ect? would you rather they not donate anything rather than donate?

its a terrible tragedy that children die of cancer.... and starvation.... and lack of medical attention... and clean water....

but being upset that the cause that matters most to you was not given more isnt helpful.... if you feel more should be done, you are free to donate your time and money to the causes you champion.... riot donating does not do anything harmful does it?

ElysMustache6/13/2015, 6:32:26 PM1 votes

LGBT need help. Helping them is good. Promoting sexual perversion is bad. If there is a charity that helps LGBT people without promoting sexual perversion, then that sounds good to me.

I don't know if the TREVOR project is good. Frankly, I'm not going to spend any time finding out. I am not personally going to give them any money, because I have plenty of good things to do with my money already.

I find it strange that a company like Riot would choose this particular charity, being that it is so specific targeted, and would at first glance seem to be strongly political in nature. Or socially volatile, if you prefer that to political.

If that's what Riot wants to do, I won't hold it against them. Not because I agree or think it is okay, but because applying that level of judgement to every company in my life would consume all my time and leave me with no one to do business with.

Raja Chachki6/13/2015, 7:03:11 PM1 votes

Actually cancer research funding has had a lot more publicity in the past, it is a recent phenomenon where everyone is donating to help the LGBT community. And it is absolutely unfair to compare these two things, cancer, and teen suicide due to bullying. Cancer is a disease, incurable at the moment, and no amount of funding will fix the issue with a snap of the fingers. However, getting help to depressed children over bullying about their sexual orientation is fixable, and they can be saved immediately. These two problems are not easily fixed, but Riot is not showing "favoritism" by helping the LGBT community over the cancer community(which they actually have donated to before). Also, let us not forget that us, humans, made this LGBT suicide stuff a problem, Riot wouldn't have to fund fixing it if humans actually had a heart (just putting that out there, something to think about).