Yes, I’m black and have been living in Japan for 11 years. I’ve spent time working in English schools, public schools, universities and businesses. I have friends of every race here, and I find this to be total BS. I nor my friends have ever experienced this kind of racism here.

Pulling your eyes slantwise to portray Asians? Sure. We’ll laugh together with you. After all, standup comedians do impersonations all the time. There’s even a color joke in a blue baby in the most recent Thor.

Hiroshima. Did Hamada portray lynching, or intentionally joke about death (which, I must point out, a…

Outside the USA “blackface” is not really considered an issue, especially in countries with little or no dark-skinned population.

I have to agree with the criticism largely: on kotaku I expect the headline to be answered in the article, even if it’s about a video or podcast. Your comment here is exactly what I came looking for - because I want to watch, but I can’t for at least 16 hours.

I have to agree with some of the criticisms, re: presentation that you’re getting here. While it’s super interesting to follow what you’re doing, and I full-well understand that you’re using Kotaku to promote your YouTube series—because, let’s be honest: this is a YT series being advertised through Kotaku—the fact…

Cute. Part of growing up is not commenting about things you know nothing about.

Sooo a Kotaku article that’s blatent click-baitisement for a 20min video? I thought the point of an article with a title like “You won’t believe the reason they gave for Barret losing his arm on the japanese version” was to actually TELL US what the reason is, instead of using it as a plug for a 20 minutes lets play.…

Something important to note in all of this:

The, “I never asked to be a role model/hero/what have you” argument certainly feels like it should be salient, and it’s true, up to a point—sports figures of all stripes, traditional, e-sport, or otherwise, only ever asked for an opportunity to do what they do at a very high…

You’re logic is shot and your example is utterly ridiculous in comparison. If you work for a bank, and your boss offers you a raise, and says “you can’t say anything bad about me or the company” then you discover that your boss is stealing money from bank accounts... if you talk about it, you still keep the moral high…

Rules are not inherently moral, morals are determined by people outside of, or in spite of, what the rules are. Breaking a rule means he has no legal or official recourse. If the people decide he has moral high ground, then he has it, regardless of what the rules are.

It robs him of any high ground? Even if the other spouse is abusive prior to the infidelity, all the blame lands on the one who cheats? Context always matters, its not always as cut and dry as “he broke the rules, he’s in the wrong”

Ya know, vastly fewer people probably would have paid attention to the statement if they hadn’t banned him. This seems alot like a “Throwing water on oil fire” situation.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world followed by Formula One.

Former league player speaks truth, gets banned for speaking truth. Yes, rules says he cannot cause harm to the company... but, basically lying to everyone isnt much better.

The UK is part of the English-speaking world. Soccer’s kiiind of a big thing here, as are famous footballers.

“Celebrities will be different in other cultures.”

Oh English is the only language of importance?

What about when black comedians paint themselves white on things like Saturday Night Live for a comedy bit? They are never doing it in a flattering way of caucasians. He did not do it out of hatred or as a racist. He did it as a costume...a costume. And it was a costume he chose because he is a fan of the…

Not just white French people. American whites commenting here have it on good authority that no one in the US knew Blackface was bad until 2007. Also, Blackface is only bad because of minstrel shows. It’s not inherently bad because of white people literally using Black skin as a costume.

Nah, some of us just hate plants so much, we see consuming meat products as getting in the way of absolutely destroying lettuce. How are avocados ever going to learn their place if I’m wasting time, energy, and belly space filling up on, I dunno...meatloaf?