So basically, animal crossing added hairdos from black culture, and white people put them on their character in game, and people are genuinely going nuts about it.
So basically, animal crossing added hairdos from black culture, and white people put them on their character in game, and people are genuinely going nuts about it.
Everyone has a different experience, are you African in a predominately black culture or a white one?
Right now, I live in the West.
Like I said everyone has a different experience, and how racism exists within a culture and becomes internalized depends on how and where people grew up and who they interacted with. As I said in a different comment, I imagine this was someone trying to give some education about systemic racism to gamers, which then got blown up because, well gamers.
I understand that argument, that being said structurally it could be applied to almost anything. I kind of understand the other argument about having to fight for black hairstyles to be accepted in white spaces, but I just can't see that it does a sufficient amount of harm for it to be worth fighting about.
I think that the US context for these things is very important. I also think that fights for acceptance and understanding are ones we should have.
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