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Blackface isn’t a solely American issue. Frex, in Asia, it gets mixed in with a lot of skin-colour related bigotry (ie darker skinned people, even those of the same ethnicity, are viewed as lesser) and pure racism as well - ie lampooning of darker skinned South Indians in India, minority Malays in Singapore and minorit…

Speaking as a Chinese I simply don’t care when people gets costumed as a Chinese fictional character nor do I care when black people cosplay as anime characters that are supposed to be Asian. It only annoys me when people get costumed with the solely purpose of having the appearance of an Asian.

We have a long history of racism over here as well. It’s not a solely American thing and never has been. Blackface isnt cool here either and hasn’t been for a very long time

Look, I don’t know her, her work, or her views. I’m not going to try and cast any aspersions on any of that. What I can say is that her use of race as a costume is problematic regardless of how she saw it because (A) At this point it’s well understood and respected to cosplay without trying to emulate the skin color…

Trying having the same skin tone as a Roma in Europe, or having a darker skin complexion in places like Cambodia. It isn’t just an American thing.

Already knew this was going to be here:

The core problem is this: It doesn’t matter how detailed, how much care she took, or anything else: Livanart is still treating race as a costume. Race is not an accessory or costume that can simply be taken off at the end of the day.

Yet, even after every scumbag thing EA has done over the years, time and again not a single boycott call has had any noticeable effect.

Joshua Wong says that violence is actually key to the HK protests as the reaction to protestors violence against he HK police is then filmed and used to get the world mad at them. Its why he refuses to condone all the violence and burning of businesses that protestors are doing in HK, its actually central to the their…

The Sons of Liberty were very polite when they threw British tea into Boston Harbor.

People can all politely go dressed in Winnie the Pooh costumes.

I know it might be a bit ironic considering the source is from John F. Kennedy, but “those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

People will be watching these protests. If you want to be effective, it should be in good faith - non-gamers especially will be curious whether this is really meaningful or if it’s just another horseshit gamergate blowup over nothing.

Money says a lot though. Hit them in their pocketbook and they fold.

Right? Such mealy mouthed bullshit. 

Except the rule broken in question is vague and absolutely allows Blizzard to cut off whatever it is they want without so much as a warning first. It’s not like political opinions themselves are or where banned, and the rule itself isn’t construed as such.

“But it’s also kind of like, Ehh, don’t drag me into your politics.”

Objective reviews don’t get much further than simply describing the game in the most neutral tone possible. If you want an objective review of the game, you’re better off reading its Wikipedia page.

No, actually. My job is to tell you what I think but also what I feel. Objectivity is a myth.