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kleinbl00  ·  3592 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Editor's blog: I am sexist Let's talk about how, why and what I'm doing about it.

    My point is that this isn't a "blackface" example, no matter how much you are trying to make it out to be.

Ahhh, but friend: it is. That which flies in The Jazz Singer does not fly on Dancing with the Stars. In 1975, you can title a movie "Boss Nigger." in 2014 you go WHAT THE WHAT!!?!!??

    Quit gobbling up everything that has been done wrong in attempt to relate it to this. If this achivement is wrong it will be wrong on it's own standing.

1) You are not the boss of me.

2) You keep negating my examples. Other examples are necessary, grasshopper.

3) It is wrong. The controversy made The Guardian, my friend. It's not like we're exploring new ground here.

    This is in a videogame FULL of killing men in senselessly violent ways. And in an industry even more full of it.

'member that point about singling out women? Do me a solid and go back and revisit that, since it explicitly faces this argument that you've made three times.

    Have you ever PLAYED red dead redemption?

Negative, Ghost Rider. I made the conscious decision before it came out that I wasn't interested in rewarding Rock Star for incentivizing violence against women. That's the way the system works: a vendor makes a choice I don't support, so I in turn don't support the vendor.

It's interesting that you think I must experience a system I find repellant in order to argue its repellence. It speaks to a certain lack of rhetorical rigor.