These are reasonable centrist takes, not right wing. for the most part. I am in fact a liberal and I do not agree with simonsan's viewpoints.This forum is 90% right wing takes when it comes to politics.
So based on logic outlined by some people here, the game Bloons needs to be cancelled because monkey images can be seen everywhere in the game. Sure they didn't mean it but that doesn't excuse it and millions of Brazilians are offended by this game. Right?
Imagine reading about social experiences of people in a different part of the world and wheeling them in the direction of farce and lowkey mockery. Besides, there is a problem with the very fabric of your witty post. Arguments by analogy are invalid in most formal logic systems, so you express some advanced mental gymnastics right here (pardon my analogy). But yes, this image in particular can easily be mobilised for racist purposes. It’s a matter of good timing and context.
Complete nonsense.That’s a good old chestnut: it was not meant as a witty post, just like Spring and Naomi didn't mean to be racist. Yet they are surprisingly similar in the mockery as a by-product.
Quick googling brought me to this edgy reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/ffcn42/blooms_td_is_a_game_series_about_genocide/
You know what? Your post reads exactly like that obvious rant.
I dont think that a self-conscious person would consider your post ‘100% serious’ as you claimed, since you use the word 'canceled' and make a case of ‘millions of Brazilians who are offended by this game’. Now in contrast, you state that ‘I haven't heard anyone being offended by Bloons’. What an interesting juxtaposition. I bet you spoke with all Black Brazilians since you make those grandiose and somehow contradictory claims, making me think that your original intention was to downgrade experiences of people complaining in this thread.
If you think that the Naomi/Spring and ‘’Bloons videogame are nearly identical in execution‘’ you are naïve, at best, or maybe are far removed from anyone who experienced racism. It is crystal clear from your marvellous statement that ‘Gabi whose English is poor at best misunderstood the context’, which was followed by even more impressive ‘that was literally what was going through her head. She thought the monkey sounds were directed at her’. So, it’s actually Gabi’s fault, she should have learned English and studied trends in other channels before feeling offended and mocked. Who are you exactly to explain her (or anyone’s) thoughts and feelings, and declare upon their rightness and wrongness? Is this that famous Canadian Politeness that everyone is talking about? Maybe it is you who misunderstood the context since, most likely, you have zero social experience of being compared to a monkey?
Spring is North American, he is 100% aware of racial dynamics in America(s), he is a social worker who is supposed to stay sensitive to those topics- yet he decided not to, and you are producing a posteriori defensive accounts for him. It’s noble that you stand against ‘real racism’ while you simultaneously fuel equally real polite racism by explaining that Gabi ‘misunderstood’ and that Brazilians complaining in the thread(s) use faulty logic to justify their social experience. What a nice way of preserving status quo while doing virtue signalling.
PS Half of my family is Brazilian if that matters to you. Now you are explaining to me that I 'failed to understand' your post just like you've been explaining to Gabi that she had misunderstood Spring/Naomi. Probably Trudeau's blackface was also misunderstood by snowlfakes like me.
What an eternal recurrence!
I thought this thread was mellowing down quit a bit, now I find it is reawakening yet again, fueled by what seems a ton load of anger, the pot calling the calling the kettle black?Strategy games always attract (crypto)right wingers who desperately need safe spaces after being called out. This case/thread is yet another example.
This seems like a proper strawman. Sure be an activist about everything you think people are doing wrong in /your eyes/ and lose every ability to relativate. rBut good luck on your philosophy degree.So, it’s actually Gabi’s fault
That’s a good old chestnut: it was not meant as a witty post, just like Spring and Naomi didn't mean to be racist. Yet they are surprisingly similar in the mockery as a by-product.
Quick googling brought me to this edgy reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/ffcn42/blooms_td_is_a_game_series_about_genocide/
You know what? Your post reads exactly like that obvious rant.
I dont think that a self-conscious person would consider your post ‘100% serious’ as you claimed, since you use the word 'canceled' and make a case of ‘millions of Brazilians who are offended by this game’. Now in contrast, you state that ‘I haven't heard anyone being offended by Bloons’. What an interesting juxtaposition. I bet you spoke with all Black Brazilians since you make those grandiose and somehow contradictory claims, making me think that your original intention was to downgrade experiences of people complaining in this thread.
If you think that the Naomi/Spring and ‘’Bloons videogame are nearly identical in execution‘’ you are naïve, at best, or maybe are far removed from anyone who experienced racism. It is crystal clear from your marvellous statement that ‘Gabi whose English is poor at best misunderstood the context’, which was followed by even more impressive ‘that was literally what was going through her head. She thought the monkey sounds were directed at her’. So, it’s actually Gabi’s fault, she should have learned English and studied trends in other channels before feeling offended and mocked. Who are you exactly to explain her (or anyone’s) thoughts and feelings, and declare upon their rightness and wrongness? Is this that famous Canadian Politeness that everyone is talking about? Maybe it is you who misunderstood the context since, most likely, you have zero social experience of being compared to a monkey?
Spring is North American, he is 100% aware of racial dynamics in America(s), he is a social worker who is supposed to stay sensitive to those topics- yet he decided not to, and you are producing a posteriori defensive accounts for him. It’s noble that you stand against ‘real racism’ while you simultaneously fuel equally real polite racism by explaining that Gabi ‘misunderstood’ and that Brazilians complaining in the thread(s) use faulty logic to justify their social experience. What a nice way of preserving status quo while doing virtue signalling.
PS Half of my family is Brazilian if that matters to you. Now you are explaining to me that I 'failed to understand' your post just like you've been explaining to Gabi that she had misunderstood Spring/Naomi. Probably Trudeau's blackface was also misunderstood by snowlfakes like me.
What an eternal recurrence!
You have to make a real effort to stop using slur.
using gay as a slur was a problem for me. so many people use gay as a joke in gaming..
It has to stop.
hello police i would like to report a murderUnfortunately, being half-Brazilian does not entitle one to make racial abuse allegations when reality shows quite poignantly that nothing of the sort occurred.