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Replace “american people” with “japanese people” and your post still rings true. ;)

actually it is, no pun intended, not a black and white situation, many african tribes held slaves long before the transatlantic trade started, many tribes captured and traded members of other tribes, the picture of white men going inland to capture africans is wrong, this was mostly a mater of local tribes using this

As someone who has Native American blood (Snohomish), and was raised in an Native American community (Tlingit/Haida of SE Alaska). My opinion on the skins, long before there was any hint of actual ties were simply this:

I wouldn’t wanna work at Blizzard, most of all on Overwatch. Probably can’t take a piss without someone getting offended about it.

This just proves people can be offended by just about anything.

Because of the American need to never let the French live down any of their military losses no matter how obscure?

It really isn’t. This is overwhelmingly an American issue, and the whole world is shitting their pants wondering if we’ve broken our collective grasp on reality. We are so obsessed with optics and television and movies and online avatars that we have lost any sense of truth.

Leveraging US technological prowess used to

If 2/3rds of the company was worth $5000 and they had no idea that the deal was on the table... clearly it wasn’t exactly successful and they had no day-to-day involvement.

Let’s see

Sure...but when I say “Some of my best friends are black”....suddenly I’m the asshole....

Oh great I wonder how many crappy sprays I will get before I get the skins I want?

Don’t care. Really, really don’t care in this instance. And, frankly, it seems silly to focus on that when the actual story is one person threatening to ruin another person’s livelihood, and making the problem of believing sexual assault victims more difficult in the process.

I will. Don’t spit fire and act like an ass if you can’t fucking take it.

I knew there was something about the devil I liked.

They/their are weird pronouns to use for a single individual. Not against the pronouns existing, it just reads and sounds awkward.

My cars (CTS, Expedition) are just the right size for two adults and three daughters that will kill each other if squished together for so long and the road trips we take.

My coworker talks on her phone at her desk in Arabic all the time and I’m 10000% sure she’s bitching about me to her mom.

Right.

This feels really icky and exploitative regardless of his other work. Sorry. And, there is really no way to tell if it was this or something else on the application that got him accepted, and it’s many times more likely that it was something else.

I understand why people would feel like they couldn't talk about this. If we're being honest about feelings here, I honestly felt no sympathy for the women above. To be honest, I saved all my sympathy for their children.