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.

  • Fidel_Cashflow [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    That was just an example, the point is that if you want to 'err on the side of caution' then you can always find a few people who are offended by something. If 99% of people (within a certain minority group) say "yeah this is fine it's really not a big deal" and less than 1% are offended, it's not necessarily a good idea to act like it's offensive just because some people say it is.

    And what if by acting like it's a big deal you're actually weirding out the 99% of people who don't think it's offensive?

    It's not like it's always better to view every controversial thing as offensive.