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.

  • AlfredNobel [comrade/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    How would you know in game the difference between someone celebrating an afro as a symbol of black culture, and someone having one as a "cool" hairstyle divorced from any context? The internet and games have never been good on questions of racism.

      • AlfredNobel [comrade/them,any]
        1·
        4 years ago

        That's a good question, my thoughts are that symbols have power, and people don't want to see them divorced from their context. Why does an afro look cool? What caused the cultural shift that allowed black people to wear their hair in a natural way in the 60s and 70s? There is a lot of context of struggle, overcoming racism, and experiences there. So what are you celebrating if you don't know the context?

        Like I said above I think this was just someone trying to add that context which then got blown up.