How appropriate that the article appeared on a site called “Unwinnable”, making it a perfect metaphor for the folly of trying to play the shell game of identity politics. Studio MDHR took an art style and sensibility and made a fantastic, spirited game, while at the same time avoiding the racial failings of the era.…

Should everything ever that references something old have a disclaimer that says ‘in this era people were racist/sexist/etc’?

These are the kind of articles that have made Kotaku a laughingstock among gamers. Although I suppose it’s emblematic of most of the websites that were under the Gawker banner. This is such a reach it’s absolutely ridiculous and I think anyone with common sense can see that.

Yeah the definite way to level the playing field is for the oppressed to bite their tongues

Ok, come on, you can’t have it both ways on this one. Either saying an entire gender is trash is hate speech, or it’s not. Just because we don’t like the particular men who have been complaining doesn’t make “men are trash” a productive sentiment. And the way to fix “millennia of oppression” is not to normalize the…

“Men are trash” is simply not the same thing as sexist attacks on women, because you don’t face the systemic oppression that makes sexist slurs so toxic

When Gawker did this:

Damn straight there isn’t. The former owners of this trash site were all this oo happy to dabble in anti-semitism. http://gawker.com/make-hitler-happy-the-beginning-of-mein-kampf-as-told-1683573587