Worst of Social Justice

[Even Then]

Fair. To my knowledge, there are at least some nonwhite characters in the earlier games so it's not like the entire series is White Supremacist Fantasyland.

But I still think that homogeny in fiction is creatively lazy (unless it serves a narrative point). However, as I said to someone else I had this conversation with, I don't want to instate minimum quotas of diversity or anything (hell, Okami's one of my favourite games and it's pretty damn homogenic). It's not "you need to include X minorities or you're racist", it's "it's fiction, it can be anything you want, why are you making it so homogenic".

[Ultimate Paragon]

And here's their "evidence":



Fucking lighting, how does it work?

And are you seriously citing a Tumblr blog?

[RavynousHunter]

^ I cannot believe you resisted the urge to say; "And then everything changed when the white people attacked."

Then again, that Avatar meme is getting pretty old.

"On that day, people of colour realized that safety was a pen, people of colour...the cattle."

Thus making white people man-eating giants.

[Svata]

^ I cannot believe you resisted the urge to say; "And then everything changed when the white people attacked."

Then again, that Avatar meme is getting pretty old.

"On that day, people of colour realized that safety was a pen, people of colour...the cattle."

Thus making white people man-eating giants. Maybe.

Sorry.

[Ghoti]

Oh my god, I found the pride-flags-for-us master list of orientations and genders, which are six and ninteen pages long respectively. I suggest listening to this while scrolling.

[mellenORL]

That compares to the list of Inuit words describing different types of snow. Except not useful.

[Sigmaleph]

^ I cannot believe you resisted the urge to say; "And then everything changed when the white people attacked."

Then again, that Avatar meme is getting pretty old.

You'd think so, but I saw it used twice today (not counting this).

[Askold]

^ I cannot believe you resisted the urge to say; "And then everything changed when the white people attacked."

Then again, that Avatar meme is getting pretty old.

You'd think so, but I saw it used twice today (not counting this).

Some people have claimed that this joke has gone for too long and has become too predictable, but then everything changed when the Fire nation attacked...

[Ultimate Paragon]

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It's really nice that modern goalposts have wheels on them to move them around more easily.  Could you image how hard it would be if they had to dig them up to move them each time?!

[TheL]

Um...9% is almost 1/10.

For comparison, that would be like having a game set in the modern USA, but with no black people anywhere.  Black people are 1/10 of the US population; to make it so that even the extras include zero black people sends a message, and not a very good one.  (And that's without getting into the growing Latino population, Asian-Americans of various ethnicities, or the 4 million Native Americans still here.)

1 or 2 extras of differing ethnicities programmed in would honestly make games like that look a lot more realistic, and wouldn't take any more time or work than making one of the white extras that's already in the game.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Um...9% is almost 1/10.

For comparison, that would be like having a game set in the modern USA, but with no black people anywhere.  Black people are 1/10 of the US population; to make it so that even the extras include zero black people sends a message, and not a very good one.  (And that's without getting into the growing Latino population, Asian-Americans of various ethnicities, or the 4 million Native Americans still here.)

1 or 2 extras of differing ethnicities programmed in would honestly make games like that look a lot more realistic, and wouldn't take any more time or work than making one of the white extras that's already in the game.

And most of that 9% was made up of Jews.  Most Polish Jews look basically white to me.

[Eiki-mun]

Honestly the descriptor of "white" is kind of useless anyway. A Swede and a Greek look about as alike as an Indian and a Chinese man, but they're both put under this umbrella of "white", along with Armenians, Spaniards, Scotsmen, and Italians - but not Turks for some reason, and not Roma for some reason. So I have to ask... just what is "white"?

[Ultimate Paragon]

Honestly the descriptor of "white" is kind of useless anyway. A Swede and a Greek look about as alike as an Indian and a Chinese man, but they're both put under this umbrella of "white", along with Armenians, Spaniards, Scotsmen, and Italians - but not Turks for some reason, and not Roma for some reason. So I have to ask... just what is "white"?

I have no clue.  Other than people from the "right" parts of France, Germany, Scandinavia and the British Isles, it seems like nobody is unambiguously white.

[Ultimate Paragon]

1.  Adrian Peterson is still playing for the Minnesota Vikings.

2.  Ray Rice is eligible to play.

3.  Aaron Hernandez committed first-degree murder.

[dpareja]

4. Roger Goodell didn't like the verdict.