There are two separate issues here. The subconscious mind doesn't distinguish fiction from reality, and on some level if you target a group you actually hate you're flexing your hate muscles to deepen your prejudices. If you know you're only playing a prejudiced character as a joke in privacy or between friends, then…

The difference is the standard anonymous NPC person isn't even real enough to be a good stand-in for innocent people. Killing them is like killing army men. But when you give them specific real-world traits and say "this is what is real about them. This is how they represent people in real life", then targeting them…

*doing the same thing to white people will not create a generation of people who ignore violence against whites or promote their deaths.

It's not an issue of things being equal- it's an issue of correcting negative perceptions or power structures that have historically existed. Society leans heavily in one direction, so to correct it there needs to be some self-imposed guidelines to help tilt it the other way.

That's why it's important to clarify that this image reflects villainy, a self-styled modernist/westernized local manipulating his own people, and not the heroism of a protagonist.

He's "not white", but that's still a more subtle sort of problem. The fact is much of the third world's problems can be traced back to manipulative european masters, but lately the majority of media focuses on the ensuing local corruption instead. Time after time, the protagonist is saving people from their own…

That's why they clarified that this wasn't the protagonist.
The image looks like an homage to the past 300 years of colonialism: Julian Assange-looking dudes dividing and conquering peasants, favoring some and punishing others with thrall armies.

I'm pretty sure DragonQuest 8 is on par with Ni No Kuni

Simba got Jaundice

It's not the typical American's view of Europe. They see Europe as being sort of politely authoritarian socialists, which isn't all that inaccurate. They aren't as aware though, of Europe's schizophrenic relationship with hate-speech.

That is, as casual as it sounds, punishing someone for denying the holocaust sounds…

But that's the problem: nobody can agree on what's offensive. I used to think it was clear, but it really isn't. The standards don't just keep changing, they change dramatically depending on which subculture you wander into. There are circles of people I know who are upset with me for watching Doctor Who, because…

I thought Europe in general was much worse. They have actual prison terms for voicing some unpopular opinions. Hate-speech is treated like a violent crime over there, perhaps because they're so prone to lapsing into Nazism from time to time.

What if someone leaks this comment of yours to your employer, and they feel your comment a kotaku article do not reflect the deep respect they have for people with Down Syndrome? If you're comfortable with your every statement reflecting your employer, you should really not post comments on the internet.

Is that really the case though? Can a company fire someone because his views on abortion, religion, or politics don't reflect the company? Are companies composed of people with identical opinions on major issues? Or do people with jobs never have twitter accounts? I can't figure out how a society of people on…

It's weird how lately the corporate world has been pretending that tolerance of old bigots is some huge sacrifice of the law, that no individual human should ever have to do. That's extremely divorced from the reality; which is that many of us tolerate old bigots every day.
Thank God for the first amendment,…

Many women were socialized to wait for prince charming to go after them, and to secretly fume when he doesn't know they exist. Thus, for a lot of shy/traditional women it may be impossible to ever know, unless one of them has a psychotic break, and you find yourself being screamed at for your obliviousness and…

Who is that in the picture? What game is that?

I feel like every guy starts by saying "I don't want to be that guy"

This fast and simple approach only seems like the best one if you aren't concerned at all about burning bridges or alienating the people around you. That's why the answer counseled so much caution; this is a place he likes to go and people he likes to feel comfortable with. To keep it that way, he shouldn't make…

I think "writing" refers to the overly-angsty dialogue between the characters, and "story" refers to the weak robinhood/occupyWallstreet storyline.