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.
It’s a very, “this issue doesn’t affect me and I don’t want to make the effort to understand it” attitude.
But this issue does not actually affect me, and I actually don’t want to make the effort to understand it.
Yeah but this is a online avatar for a video game, and there’s probably at most like 2 people actually talking about it. With one side being a polite black person telling people to stop using that hair, and the other being an epic gamer telling them to go die in a tire fire, and six million people talking about that discourse. It is so far beyond my point of reference that I cannot meaningfully engage. Like how would I engage? Try to scold people for using black hair, when I myself am not black and can’t meaningfully contribute to that discourse? Join the people hollering on twitter about the discourse?
Edit: I mean I guess I could say gamers are bad, but that’s really just not engaging either way.
