Way to miss the forest for the trees.
Way to miss the forest for the trees.
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.…
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 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…
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.
Caring about things isn’t pointless, and apathy sucks. But that doesn’t mean we have to then care about every damn thing and to treat everything everywhere as Very Important.
And protesting a cosmetic skin in a video game changes things for the better...HOW, exactly? “Awareness”? Okay. We’re aware. What else ya got? I haven’t heard anything yet about those in charge of such things in South Korea or elsewhere clamoring to change a dress code because people think a digital cosmetic reskin…
The whole premise of the game is “hot people shoot each other sorta” combined with a weirdly out of touch street fighter attempt to be global that was never not going to be problematic, so it’s a tough position to find a character who was absolutely 100% designed as japanese “tiny evangelion pilot” first and then…