Hello there fellow comrade gamers, I wish to share something I find concerning with you today.

First of all I would like to mention that I am relatively new to online gaming. As a history enthusiast, I mostly occupy myself playing offline Paradox grand strategy games and other relevant historical titles. However, there are a few action multiplayer games I've always wanted to try out which correlate to my historical interests (such as Hell Let Loose and Red Dead Online).

That said, when I got engaged in the online communities of those action games for the first time, either through an in-game chat or game-related forums, I was very surprised by the general amount of toxicity and pure hate towards particular groups of people - people of color, different sexual orientation, and, what is completely incomprehensible to me - socialists (a group that I personally belong to).

I don't live in a cave and I was already perfectly aware that common hatred towards gays and people of color existed all over the internet for as long as I can remember, which I completely oppose for obvious reasons. But socialism? In gaming communities? I've been trying to have a civil discussion with a great number of players about the core rationales for this hatred, trying to explain that the sole reason they have the free time to play a particular game instead of working on a factory for 15hrs a day is purely due to the advancements in society brought in great part by socialist movements and their influence which shaped the system we are living under at our modern age. But every time I try to start any form of discussion, all I get from about 95% of gamers is hate and insults, with some correlate to the hatred mentioned previously e.g. "you are a socialist? ahh no wonder you are also gay. You are probably black too, I bet!" And this, of course, is the softest possible version of responses I usually get.

My question for this discussion, my fellow comrades is simple - what's going on with the online gaming community? Has anyone experienced the same of you fellow gamers out there? What do you think is the root cause of this mindless hatred and ignorance in the online gaming communities of which suppose to be historical games and forums.

Thank you in advance for reading my post. If you've encountered this problem previously, or are dealing with it at the moment, please feel free to share your experiences below.