Non-Japanese fans of Japanese game: We are mad that a character from said Japanese game appears a slightly different shade of color in Japanese cartoon series based on same Japanese game!

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.…

But here’s the thing. If a person finds a word offensive, apologize and stop using it. For 99.99% of the population, savage is a word with no baggage. We need to stop saying “you can’t say X because I can imagine a specific scenario in which a person might find X offensive under certain circumstances.”
We don’t need to…

stopped reading and started skimming when he tried to explain the word savage to me and ti turned out to be a history lesson

trying to manufacture controversy where none exists

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.

“Unless that was poorly-worded sarcasm, I guess.”

Like the entire article is sarcasm

Thats clearly sarcasm

The tax incentives were based on how many people they hire. So if they came up short... So would the incentives.

Do you not understand what’s happening here? Amazon isn’t building HQ2 here. This is just a small satellite office, my local high school has more than 1500 people.

Gizmodo used to be a great tech news site. Now it’s just a clickbait site generating ad revenue using moronic hit takes to get people riled up.

I don’t understand why anti-Amazon harpers can’t do basic math or have common sense.  Do you think 1500 people can runultiple campus buildings?  An entire section of LIC would've been rebuilt.  this is just a few floors in an area that's already well developed.

I don't know why so many people are having a hard time understanding that these are not fulfillment center jobs.

That is factually incorrect. The original subsidies and incentives the state and city were giving to Amazon were based on hitting employment milestones (number of workers, number of works making “X” salary per year, etc.).

Oh yeah bc sports stadiums hire 25k people with an avg salary of $150k per year.

It doesn’t make sense to build your own campus in Queens for a mere 1,500 positions. Don’t know how many jobs Queens would have ended up with or how fast they would have scaled up. Maybe what they do in Manhattan will ultimately resemble HQ2 over time. 

Yeah the fact that the only person quoted in this article is AOC is telling. No normal citizens, no counter arguments, no economists, no opposing viewpoints or even the opinion of Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, who - you know - actually represents the district they’re setting up their headquarters in and supported the…