He noted that his visit to the dictionary was requested by the article. Your comment isn’t as clever as you thought.

hmmm, I don’t know about this take Paul.

I use “savage” in reference to animals; not people. A lion is savage. A T-Rex is savage. A bear is savage. A silverback is savage. People are not savage. Unless they bite? I associate the adjective “savage” with the verb “savage”, and I use the adjective to indicate propensity for the verb. This also applies…

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.…

There is a meaningful, logical difference between “this term has been used in some contexts in ways that were harmful” and “this term is harmful in all contexts”. This article seems to be implying that the former conclusion should always lead to the latter. I do not believe that is a rational viewpoint.

As someone all for trying to put more thought into the language used and it’s appropriateness going forward, I’ll ultimately have to admit this fell short of convincing.

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.

I mean, you’re entitled to your opinion but to suggest the “Dude’s just talkin’ about a video game name” when it’s pretty clear the conversation Paul is trying to start is so much larger than that is pretty stupid - respectfully.  

This article is an EXTREME stretch. The game is meant as satire- it’s clearly so. It’s driven home in game. Not everything has to be a moral /existential validation crisis.

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

This won’t get past the grays, since most people are piling on at this point. But I’ll say this much as a counterpoint:

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.

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…

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