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.
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.
You don’t have to engage the twitter discourse, and I wouldn’t. Working to have an understand why it’s a thing and being able to correct the record if it comes up in personal conversations (i.e. on chapo.chat) is what makes someone a good ally.
Think of it like understanding the woman suing McDonald’s for hot coffee. The popular narrative of that case is very different to the actual facts.
