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Cancelled my sub a few months ago because the site had become a little samey, but there is a lot of really cool content now so I'm back in. This stuff is really good! I hope you guys can do more stuff like this.
The accents in this are fucking horrible. It's the typical shit you hear in western movies and TV, a generic "African" accent that sounds like a lazy mixture of West/East/South African with Caribbean sprinkled in for good measure.
Not one of these dudes sounds like they are actually from North Africa.
Yeah. I've been to Sweden a bunch of times for work and those dudes are EXTREMELY savvy to American culture. Most guys I have met in Stockholm know what is up and know 100% what is and isn't acceptable.
No worries, dude! Good thing about Giantbomb is that we can talk about these things and not tear each other to pieces.. Unless its about Dan, or back in the Patrick Klepek days or... oh snap...
Hey no worries. I don't think you are being a wise-ass and I think that is an interesting point. Generally I don't get offended by a lot of things, but there is something about that word and words like that, that make you feel like you don't belong. It's not that they make you feel like less of a person, its just that they remind you that you will always be different to the majority of people in western countries.
Being a black guy into geek culture, metal, punk etc, you often find yourself being one of three black dudes in a crowd of 1000's of white people. No big deal. You know you stand out but for the most part, no one gives a shit what colour you are.
But as soon as one asshole turns around and says something like that, you remember the inescapable context that is your skin colour.
It's annoying but sadly words have power. We live in a world where through the actions of horrible people, certain groups are treated differently depending on what are arbitrary differentiators, in my case, skin colour and hair texture.
You are constantly aware that your skin colour has connotations for other people. You try to ignore it and live above it, but it takes one dick head to remind you that (in our lifetime) you may always carry a scarlet letter for something that doesn't matter. And I'm not woe-is-meeing here, we all have our own shit to deal with, black, white, male and female.
I agree that everyone is too quick to shit themselves to death over everything these days and to be fair, I have only seen reasoned reactions from people like Patrick Klepek, Gregg Miller and Austin Walker (i'm sure death threats are being bandied about which is equally unacceptable).
But if you say some of the shit he has said and your career is ruined as a result, you have no one to blame except yourself.
Now there may be an element of him being extremely childish and needing to seriously learn that what he is doing is highly offensive. It might just be some edge-lord fuckholery that he needs to grow out of, but until such time, people are going to label him a racist and he has no one to blame except himself.
On the DMCA thing, I have no idea. I'll leave that to smarter dudes than I.
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