That's racist!

#126
#126
DancingOutlaw said:
My point is that even 15 years ago a single person being upset would update their blog or write a letter. Now a single tweet somehow speaks for a large group of people and is called an outrage or backlash. The whole Mexican Mondays thing at Clemson started with only one person complaining and it turned into some referendum on racism.
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You could say the same thing about the Mizzou fiasco.
 
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#127
#127
Rust is a popular first-person survival video game where you start out completely naked, left to a barren environment to build yourself tools, weapons, and a home as other players try to do the same — and potentially try to kill you and steal your stuff. It's a tense game, one in which your friends can suddenly turn against you and basically ruin everything you worked for just for their own personal gain.

But it's not the betrayal and tension that has gamers upset with Rust. Instead, it's a new feature recently added to the game, which has 500,000 players each week, by developer Garry Newman: Your character's gender and race are now randomized. So even if you're a white man in real life, you now may be forced to play a black woman.

Men, particularly white men, are not happy. Newman explained the situation in the Guardian, characterizing the reaction to the change as "extreme":

For race, this seems to be a regional thing. For example, most complaints about being black in the game have generally been from Russian players. With gender it seems to be more of a geography-free complaint.

Here's one of the many messages we've received from disgruntled male players: "Why won't you give the player base an option to choose their gender? I just want to play the game and have a connection to the character like most other games I play. Not have some political movement shoved down my throat because you make the connection we can't choose our gender in reality so let's make it like that in game too."

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What's odd, instead, is that these same complaints from male, white gamers would very likely fall on deaf ears if they were made by another group — by, say, a black, Hispanic, or female gamer. After all, originally, everyone on Rust was forced to play a bald white man — and there was no similar uproar.
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A popular video game now randomizes your race and gender — and many white men are furious - Vox
 
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#128
#128
Perfect. I always wanted to a middle-aged White man. And I can play as a black woman, whose bald on the side as well. Or a Russian monkey.
 
#130
#130
Why don't they just keep creating characters until they get their preferred combination of gender and ethnicity?
 
#133
#133
The fact that a stupid video game puts the world in an uproar should tell you all you need to know. Is the game free?

Edit: $20 a copy and it's still in development. May never be finished.
 
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#134
#134
Black coworker printed documents at work before me..but mine printed first. He was so confused.



#WhitePrinterPrivilege.
 
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#135
#135
The racism card knows no bounds...

Look like this, not that: UW pulls cheerleader-tryout advice after angry backlash | The Seattle Times

“I can’t believe this is real,” said UW student Jazmine Perez, director of programming for student government, via email.

“One of the first things that comes mind is objectification and idealization of Western beauty, which are values I would like to believe the University doesn’t want to perpetuate,” she said. “As a student of color who looks nothing like the student in the poster, this feels very exclusive.”

Said Signe Burchim, a UW senior: “I think it’s really upsetting and kind of disheartening the way it’s basically asking these women who want to try out to perform their femininity — but not too much.” Such a message would never go out to men trying out for a sport, she said.

In a statement, Husky athletics officials said they created the graphic “in response to a high volume of student questions about cheer and dance team tryouts.”
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#137
#137
1972 Grad said:
When I think of an ideal cheerleader type, Harriett Tubman comes to mind.
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Yes, because that is what black cheerleaders look like...

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#140
ClearwaterVol said:
Yes, because that is what black cheerleaders look like...

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Bottom one is the only one that I think is pretty. I hooked up with a black girl once but didn't sleep with her. She was on her period, and I wasn't dealing with it. She was very pretty though. I must admit that I find less than 1 percent of dark skinned girls attractive though. Whether asian, latina, whatever. If they don't have pointy Caucasian looking facial features I am simply not attracted. I think both of my little sisters are pretty young girls in their own way, but I am not attracted to girls with facial structure like theirs if that makes any sense at all. I know I am greatly in the minority here...it seems men of all races seem to be attracted to pretty Asian girls, latinas, etc.

Wanna know how weird I am? I don't like big boons either, or fake ones. C cup down to a B is where it's at for me. Perky. My wife is shaped just right for me thankfully. God made her just the way I like. I don't look at Porn, or nude photos etc.
 
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#146
calling someone racist is an easy out when you are an underachiever in life.. Makes you feel better about your lack of ability and success
 
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#149
If I'm a racist simply because I was born hypo-melanined, isn't in my best interest to become the best racist I can? I mean, is it enough to simply practice benign, passive racism? Shouldn't I practice active, malignant racism stereotypical to white, middle aged, southern males?
 
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