This isn't an inherently offensive word like a racial slur.  It just isn't.  The context it's used it was OBVIOUSLY not offensive or meant to offend, so fighting against it is meaningless and offensive.  The word ugly is offensive if used in a way to describe a person or group of people.  So is dumb or foolish or…

He noted that his visit to the dictionary was requested by the article. Your comment isn’t as clever as you thought.

I literally never said the word “attack” so I have no idea to what you’re referring.  

I’m sorry that’s the only thing you gleaned from the multiple responses I framed. Cheers!

They were also called “drunkard”. Black people were called “violeng”, “rapists” and “predatory” and gay people were called “pedophiles”.

Moronic bullshit.

Or you should stop being a big baby

Way to miss the forest for the trees.

Creating a discourse around an article now means dying on a hill over one word?  People like you and Heather think so highly of yourselves it’s honestly pretty gross.  Your words(as much as you think they are) aren’t gospel.  

The pack of wolves set upon the fawn with savage ferocity.

You saying this proves the other persons point perfectly. You are completely ignoring the persons point and acting like a child by calling the word savage their “baby”. Not surprising considering you don’t seem like the type of person that wants to have actual an actual discourse.  Be better.  

My dad dealt with a lot of racism growing up and while I’ve had an easier time of it, I’ve got my share of problems too. I just get tired of my people getting treated like fragile porcelain by white dudes who want to feel woke. The word savage isn’t gonna hurt us. Institutionalized racism hurts us. Police hurt us.…

I’m half black and white people make up only about 1/3 of the population. Good math and good job being racist.

Let’s also not forget the entire game is a blatant criticism of being the colonizer in this situation. You aren’t treated as the good guy as you parade around this planet destroying its wildlife.

As someone all for trying to put more thought into the language used and it’s appropriateness going forward, I’ll ultimately have to admit this fell short of convincing.

Agreed. Intent and context always matters.

But here’s the thing. If a person finds a word offensive, apologize and stop using it. For 99.99% of the population, savage is a word with no baggage. We need to stop saying “you can’t say X because I can imagine a specific scenario in which a person might find X offensive under certain circumstances.”
We don’t need to…

Thank you for reassuring me that there are other intelligent sane people on the internet that also think the outrage should be at appropriate sources.

This article is an EXTREME stretch. The game is meant as satire- it’s clearly so. It’s driven home in game. Not everything has to be a moral /existential validation crisis.

This feels like the most manufactured of manufactured controversies. I Googled “savage” as requested, and got the following as the first result.

None of the definitions feel inherently racist, and the initial adjectival definition feels like it serves the game perfectly. Sure, the developers *could* have chosen a…