• strocker89@feddit.online
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    5 days ago

    Fake outrage, Rockstar didn’t make a change, one loser fan did this edit because he is racist.

    • Sailor Anarres@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nobody said they did? Racists are mad about there is many just search on X, Facebook or even parts of reddit and changed it themselves saying this is better and not “woke” nobody ever claimed rockstar changed did so where is the “fake” outrage.

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        3 days ago

        Seeing a gamer chud call a game “woke” for simply having characters of color makes me fucking see red. And sadly it happens all of the time.

        It’s honestly embarrassing to be a gamer these days.

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        5 days ago

        Without knowing any of the context, I assumed “they” meant the game developers. It’s definitely open to interpretation that way.

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          Okay I guess not really though i dont think but apparently with your upvotes it can be it just literally says “fans” disliked it so much they decided to change it. Seems to me to be clearly centering these “fans” as the plural group acting. Apparently not though.

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        4 days ago

        ah, that explains why the color composition is so much worse. the girl on the left really pops while the one on the right fades into the background.

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      Is he racist, or just a blondophile? I find certain qualities in a woman attractive, if one of those qualities was curly hair, would I be racist towards east Asians who have straight hair? I mean, if the dude posted “this woman is ugly and unattractive cause she is dark skinned” then yeah, racist. But… “I’d prefer her as a blonde”, is that racist?

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        4 days ago

        I’m going to assume, against reason, thwt this comment is not made in bad faith.

        The racism is in the action and the intention. You can jork to whoever you like but going out of your way to replace depictions you don’t like is weird. This isn’t a case of some guy making a pin-up of a woman he finds attractive. It isn’t a remix: the edit has the same clothes (what little there are) and the same tattoos. So the statement is “I want this same person but I want them white.”

        Even replacing the ethnicity with an entirely new character would be weird, but the direct ethnicity edit cannot be anything but offensive in intention.

        The world of (Western) representation has been overwhelming White. Racism isn’t just prejudice: it is prejudice that is empowered and entrenched by systems, both legal and cultural. The removal of a non-white character to instead endorse yet another white model (whose features are inline with the archetypal Aryan of White supremacist fascination, e.g., blonde, straight-haired and blue-eyed) is a minor salve to a system that is being stressed by a slow cultural push towards equal representation. And, yes, a sexy lady with dark skin for a video game can be representation but I don’t have the will now to get into the “why.”