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!

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.  

That’s not it at all - genuinely. My point is that I think we need to be really careful about how we broach these conversations and more importantly call people out when their intentions are malicious. I don’t think that’s the case here (neither does Paul).

The weight of the conversation gets diluted if the perception…

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Oh no - not at all. I absolutely care, but believe that the intent (when using the word) matters more than anything and I don’t believe the intent here is malicious (Paul doesn’t seem to think so either).

I think a better opportunity to have this conversation is when the intent is overtly malicious.  I have no qualms…

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.…

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…

You’re super good at logical fallacies. Like, crazy good.
Other synonyms for savage:

What an incredibly disingenuous take on what I was saying and how incredibly naive to think a words meaning and context can’t change over time or isn’t inherently tied to how the person is using it in their language.

If Kotaku wasn’t the only games site that got through the filter on my work computer I’d never come here again.

Keeping up with the “you can’t use that word” anymore treadmill is definitely exhausting. 

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

uuuuuugh

I definitely see Ancient Egyptian inspiration. There’s literally nothing here that can be remotely classified as cultural appropriation and this is dumb. So dumb. We really need to refocus. 

I saw a great thread the other day about how online out rage is basically a marketing scheme. That makes sense to me. 

DBZ with the goose is the game I want more than the actual DBZ game. 

I dunno yet! I love going to E3 and can’t imagine not going, but between the ESA doxxing and our company’s current... situation I’m not sure what I’m gonna do.

That’s the internet perfectly summarized: a guy who’s paid actual money to stream videos of himself criticizing a game made by a 12-year-old.