Communism is when capitalism.

Don’t let Sony off the hook here. They want the exact same thing, and while Microsoft gets all the heat from gamers over what they almost did with the XB1, the far more spectacular failure to exert control was what Sony did with the PS3.

the Ubisoft co-founder said the backlash to the Quartz announcement was expected, and likened it to initial public outcry over previous new developments in the games industry like DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes.

I’m not saying they’re all the same as there are certainly different words, with different means, and differed denigrating effects, but a racial slur is a racial slur. While there is no confirmed origin for the slur, it is believed to call back to the crack of a whip. It has nothing to do with saltines as people like…

Caloing someone names is calling someone names. I dont care if its ass hole, cunt or fruitcake. Using a racist term in context is a racist term. Personally im not offended by any of the above. Racist is racist, i dont care what your color is or what color the person its being directed at. My kids are both black and…

It is the same word, doesn’t matter what you say, context matters does matter, but when people start using the n word as replacement for friend, white people will try to do the same thing, and that make it harder to see if the person is really racist or not. The best thing to do about the n word is to stop using it in…

The sentiment is that it’s a pejorative. It’s a racial epithet being used in a negative way. If you accept some and not others, then you’re deciding based on skin color. Do you know what kind of person evaluates value based on skin color?

You’re soooo brave 

“It’s disparaging an ideology.”

Where have you heard this? Even the etymology of the word does not include this use. And the only times I’ve heard “cracker” in person or in media is as a slight to the race, as in to say [white] cracker. It’s synonymous to “white bread” or being “a pasty white person”. The word…

Look, it’s “cracker”, whiteness in the West is so ubiquitous that the term doesn’t generally cause offense, but it’s ridiculously disingenuous to argue that if the term is used it’s somehow analogous to white supremacist, or nazi, or fascist when there are plenty of examples of it being used, humorously or otherwise,…

“The problem, of course, is that racism refers to overarching power structures, not if an innocuous word made you feel bad.”

Its a slur that is derogatory and aimed at one race of people. Therefore it is racist. Doesn’t matter the historical context or how you wish to define punching up or punching down. We are all created equal but fighting one form of racism and allowing another form of racism to persist is hypocritical and does nothing…

“If you’re not a racist white person, there’s no reason for the word cracker to offend you. It is not, and never has been, directed at you.”

I’m not saying that all slurs are equal and that context doesn’t matter. I’m saying it doesn’t matter in this particular instance. As slurs go ‘cracker’ is definitely on the lesser end (clearly indicated by the fast that we can actually say it, rather than talking around it or ***ing it out), but that’s not relevant…

Were you not just arguing for the importance of context, and now you’re arguing against it?

The problem is, a human being is not in the best position to establish their relative position in punching up or punching down. Bias is going to play a big factor there.

Who cares about what is and isn’t comparable? Not that you’re replying to the actual comment above so much as the straw man you’ve built. The fact is that yes, he used a slur. No, that’s never a good look. This isn’t one of those instances where a social deconstruction is at all warranted.

Nice false dichotomy.

A slur is a slur no matter who it’s aimed at. The target being white people doesn’t make it somehow okay.

I know there’s gonna be plenty of “Fortnite sucks LOL” posts here, and I get it... but I’m excited. Fortnite was something I started playing and still play with my kid, but I enjoy it and play it on solos myself now too. It’s an easy way to spend an hour after work without getting too into storylines of games.  If I…