chinese is afr ican? lol ok
Yoooo, this thread is crazy. I truly canât believe some of the stuff that I have seen here in this post. And on the damn Overwatch official forums too! Not even Reddit.
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Letâs not pretend that Apexâs hero lineup wasnât very carefully crafted to include as many races as possible.
Theyâre not black at all. Not even the OW team identifies them as black.
Trying to tell black people âOh, so theyâre not black enough for youâ implies that black people should be grateful for any character this isnât white or Asian, which does nothing but handwave away the vast amount of cultural differences between dark-skinned people on this planet and continues to boil Africa down into ignorant, meaningless homogeneity.
So long as we recognize the reality of how many games have been carefully crafted to either exclude racial minorities or include them in stereotypical, if not outright racist ways.
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Orisa is from Africa though ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
So, techincally shes black. But yeah, Overwatchâs hero lineup was carfully crafted to include as many races as possible too. But here we are after 3 years and not having a black female character.
Dude⌠Just stop. Seriously. Hush. Youâre not helping yourself or your case in the slightest. And really? The whole âI have Black friends! Iâm not racist.â card? For real? 
Whoâs mans is this? No seriously, whoâs buddy or brother is this? Can someone please come get ya boy? Please? Dude is out here bugging out.
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This argument will continue being racist no matter how many times you all repeat it.
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Whoâs more racist?
Someone who always brings up race, or someone who never does?
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Whichever person of those groups thinks white people are superior.
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Iâm not helping myself? You sound like a troll.
You know what is extremely racist? That we have a damn Black history month. That in and of itself is a damn disgrace to humanity. You know why? Because Black peopleâs history is world history. Itâs even beyond Americaâs history. Yet, we (as a country) gave it the okay to relegate my damn ancestorâs history to a month!? AND THE SHORTEST DAMN MONTH OF THE YEAR!? How disrespectful can you really be? Thatâs why, when someone would say âHappy Black History Monthâ to me, Iâd immediately interrupt them. Followed by explaining how ridiculous that sounds.
âHey, Happy Black History Month! Are you celebraââ STOP! No, Iâm not celebrating that bs. Americaâs history is Black History. World history is Black histoey. Tell me something, would you like a White History Month? âUh⌠No⌠Not really.â Do you think Asians want an Asian History Month? âNoâŚâ So, why is it okay for us to have a Black History Month? âYou got a really good point⌠Damn, I never thought about thatâŚâ
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I assure you that people can have straight hair and still be âblackâ, just as people can have very, very curly hair and still be âwhiteâ.
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I never said they couldnât. Read what I said before calling me racist.
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Weâre very off-topic, but I completely agree. Iâm not black, Iâm an old white Jewish guy. But Black History Month has always struck me as something of a back-handed acquiescence; something of a time when the powers that be say âokay, fine weâll take the next 28 days to tacitly acknowledge âyou peopleââ.
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Iâm certain that I havenât used the term âracistâ once in this entire thread, and I definitely didnât imply that you were one. Why are you so defensive about that specific item?
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Because Iâm not racist and it annoys me when people say things about me that arenât true.
Again, I havenât said that. Itâs just very odd that youâre deflecting in a very specific way about something that hasnât been said.
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Thatâs how it feels⌠Seriously. Itâs how it feels.
Although, here. Let me ask you something, comrade. Would you like a Jewish History Month? It doesnât have to be February of course, and no it doesnât have to be exclusively in Germany (isnât it ironic that Black History Month is had in the same place that treated them so badly for decades?). Iâm talking about in general. How would you feel about that? Or perhaps a White History Month. Would you like 1 of those? Just wondering is all.
No, and for the same reason. And it is why I donât like it when politicians make obligatory trips to Holocaust museums, or think that supporting a far right political party in Israel is âwhat Jews wantâ, as if âJewsâ are a monolith that all think and feel the same way, or are connected by some internal groupthink. I imagine you all are treated similarly.
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You sir, are 1 of the most intelligent and brilliant people Iâve met on a video game forum. You are beautiful mind, comrade. A member of the select few, who is no fool and sees quite clearly (at least from what Iâve observed so far) what goes on and is going on. Youâre dangerous for that, and Iâm sure youâve had quite a few awkward situations like me for being such an incredible thinker. Youâre an âultimateâ, as my family and friends would call you.
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