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Toes@ani.social 7 months agoI’m out of the loop on this. What’s the racist content in question and how does clearing the disclaimer impact the game?
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 7 months ago
AnonTwo@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yet you care so much about it. Any other "silly" mods you saw pulled today, or just the potentially racist one?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
How would removing the disclaimer be “potentially racist”?
AnonTwo@kbin.social 7 months ago
It's the implication. Why would you have problems seeing a disclaimer that not everything in the game is culturally sound? (I just woke up and I can't remember the correct word but basically...the game has problems, nobody should be uncomfortable that it's acknowledged)
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t even know what it was, but if the developers felt the need to point out that they made a mistake, they must feel pretty strongly about it. From what I understand, clearing the disclaimer changes nothing in the game, it’s just one less splash screen when you start it up.
It pretty much boils down to:
Developer: Hey guys, that thing we did back then was not cool, so rather than pretend it never happened, or block access to the game, we put a little message in just to let people know that we aren’t as racist as we used to be and we’re sorry.
Racists: We are just as racist as we’ve always been and your apology implies that racism is wrong. Which implies that WE are wrong, and we don’t like to be wrong.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Been more than a minute, but I assume it was mostly racist depictions of indigenous peoples?
But yeah. The bigots always lose their god damned minds over anyone acknowledging mistakes or apologizing. Was it last year that Ian Jomha/idubz took down a lot of his earlier REALLY racist videos and apologized? And the entire internet showed their asses (even Charlie/Moistcritical/Normie Centrist Jesus lost his god damned mind and insisted nobody should ever apologize for saying bad shit if it is was funny).
Likely because it ruins the idea of “The evil liberals are out to ruin your life over one mistake you made forty years ago. And that is why it is okay to call people the n-word”.