I very much disagree about this being 'the wrong place' again, he *had* a laser focus on his main topic (racism) and he *intentionally* expanded it to burn other groups. Exactly how we want to write the direct rules of 'association' and 'correlation isn't causation' and such. That's a really rough choice, and it's all the worse because he did it here in a topic that there was *no* way wasn't going to attract all sorts of ugly feelings, and a lot of sorta 'default' cheerleading. "Yeah! Fuck those racists they're assholes!" Is a super easy slam dunk. basically also saying "oh, and bronies and hipsters and awkward fat nerds too" while everyone is cheering a smite against racism strikes me as *unnecessarily* hateful.Overquoted said:You're upset about bronies/whatever being insults. Got it. But it's the wrong place to be offended over that. It's completely tangential to the topic at hand. (Any sub-group that has funny behaviors or hobbies is bound to get mocked. See: romance novel readers, train set builders, nerds circa 1986, etc.) So I'm going to leave it at that and walk away.Shingro said:(snip)
The Zimmerman joke was deliberate. It was meant to show how some white guys sincerely don't understand why the Zimmerman incident was so upsetting to many black people. They see it as a 'stand your ground' issue while everyone who isn't white goes, "Oh, great. Another unarmed black kid just got murdered by a white guy." Because it's common. (Because of prejudices that black guys are going to attack white people or are far more likely to commit violent crime than anyone else.) And because when it happens, regardless of the situation, the WGDF is there. Always. Everywhere.People are people, if the comic wasn't SO savage I might not even care. You don't see any posts from me on the Eva comics you'll note and they're just as much 'people' as everyone listed here. However the comic is SO savage and touches on VERY sensitive ground in the worst most harsh way. I mean... a zimmerman joke by a white guy using a black mouthpiece really? Right after he uses him to (arguably) trivialize the experience of being black and how it might shape your character... I dunno... As far as I can see it's an ugly and gross thing to do, and I'll admit it it makes me kinda mad.
If you're going to be savage, you gotta have laser precision, and this comic isn't even close to that.
I'm trying to communicate with you my perspective. I understand and totally agree with what you said. (minus all the 'boy you're thickheaded' style insults to me.) Can you at least understand the perspective I'm working with?
Just like in the comic.
You certainly understand the core of my complaint, I feel it's a bit more wide then that but I completely understand if we must agree to disagree about the topic. Judging from @GreyTheTick he seems to have gone from "yeah, screw you guys I should print t-shirts!" to "H-hey That's a totally legit question to ask a developer! Gosh! Lets talk about something else maybe? Dishonored? Devil May Cry?!" So unfortunately it's unlikely I'm going to get any real closure from the guy himself.
Still I appreciate you engaging me here at the end in a more civil manner. It's a half loaf from getting a response from his head as to his intentions to see how they measure up against the best and the worst they might be... but if that's all I get I'll take it, and I appreciate it.