*I don’t think it is all that weird for this guy.

What the actual fuck? Where have you been in the last 10 years, under a rock? Were you aware at all of the hundreds of thousands of posts on Black Twitter and countless articles written about the Kartrashians (being the most visible example) darkening their skin, putting cornrows in their hair, getting big booty…

Yeah it’s telling that he came in to a conversation about appropriation of Asian culture and was like "ALSO I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO BLACKFACE!"

“Fucking dumb isn’t it.”

As someone whose culture is close to Thai, i would love to see our traditional garment/design to be use (respectfully) by overwatch cast.

So to use a community that, from a day to day standpoint, don’t even think about America, as the litmus test for whether or not America is doing them dirty by replacing Japanese actors with White actors is kind of a false equivalence.

Cosplayers dress as asian characters whose skin tones do not match theirs all the time and I have never seen a single one of them recolor their skin for authenticity of costume. Why is it deemed necessary when they want to cosplay black characters?

Man you really wanna wear blackface.

“the design team only knows how to make costumes for slender white ladies" isn't the defense you think it is.

Can you give a specific example of “black face” being used inappropriately by Americans? I’m curious about that. I’ve not seen one yet, but that’s because so many Americans, Canadians, and Europeans love to do straight-up honest-to-god blackface that it may be obscuring more corner-case stuff.

Some people are desperate to shoehorn their “edgy” take into any conversation.

Lol your example is terrible.

Considering that this is Mercy’s 5th lunar new years skin while several actual Asian characters don’t yet have one, it seems to me they are already bottling up each individual culture such that everyone stays in their respective lanes. Namely the white woman in the Asian lane, and the Asian character in nothing.

Let me know when an Asian character gets their 5th Switzerland skin.

Exactly. Blackface has a long racist past, and a specifically racist past.

I find it fascinating that progressive people in favour of representing other people’s cultures find it offensive when the “wrong” character attempts to showcase said culture.

Changing the color of your skin isn’t inherently racist yet people act like it is.

I’m guessing the franchise concept made sense many decades ago when it was stood up, however with the advent of the internet, things changed. Direct sales to customers became a lot easier and commerce boomed. What didn’t change were dealership franchise laws, which is why dealerships still exist.

My car’s built in navigation would have warned me that the route involved going off the road, assuming that it would even recognize a rough trail like that as a viable path in the first place.

If only all these people online who have provocative opinions and the courage to write them gave a flying fart about how much fun they were at parties, you legions of dudebrahs who simply cannot come up with anything other than the same gaddam line - every single time - might actually have a purpose for once.