Bi & Brown in Chi

It's not just going oh lol stupid bro dudes mad over anime tiddies or what have you thing. There's more there for me

It's a condensing of the kind of responses I get to opinion pieces on race in games when I see that petition & others like it

It's the idea that they can be so Fucking angry over racists as enemies to have the audacity to demand a game be canceled over it

Yet, I give a mild as Fuck opinion piece on why Twintelle's hair bothers me as a weapon & im getting people finding my personal FB

But this petition is just lol look at the gamer bros being butt hurt and snowflakes.

People keep lol'ing at the line about not being to get laid/dates but fear of violence from rejected dudes is legit.

I know the signatures are mostly taking the piss out of the OP of the petition but this is a symptom of the bigger issue on who gets seen

Also who isn't heard and how we're perceived. POC say this is bad rep, or if we said cancel a game because of that?

Just think about the response, imagine it. Then tell me who the Fuck would be laughing then. Not some of the same people lol'ing now

So excuse me if I don't just brush this off as hahaha look at the silly gamer white boys. There's a entitlement problem

And a how folks are seen, heard and recieved. So keep laughing as this becomes a normal part of things & it's no longer a joke

Spoiler: entitled gamers playing oppression olympics ain't never going to be funny to me.

I think it's actually a joke. Very few people in the gaming community talks that way, but it seems to have tricked both sides into arguing

It's not funny if it a "joke"

It's too harmful to be a "joke". @tha_rami and others point out the corollary to Poe's Law that good satire requires great responsibility.

Good thread, as always my friend. :)

Thank you! <3

I'm biracial, and the white side of me is from "that part of the country. You know, that part." Oddly enough I worry about FC5's portrayal..

..not of racism, but as cartoonishly racist people, instead of a deeply held institutional belief system - because that's what it is.

In learning the history of my own family, I have grand uncles and aunts talk about their parents' time in the klan as a normal thing.

One was a politician and HAD to be a member, because that's how you got stuff done back then. That is a much more frightening idea to me.

And Far Cry - since FC2 - has a history of flamboyant villains - usually POC (in FC2 and 3, backed by white men, of course). I don't know...

...how they would handle the underlying institutional stuff. THe truly systematic rhetoric surrounding race in "that part of the country."

It's the kind of thing that happens in France and Canada (where the game is produced), something they deny even occurs and it's bad.

Can games make one capable of self reflection?