prowler_ said:
[...] there’s been a lot of discussion over whether or not the representation of certain characters in the game cross the line of political correctness, [...] an African American woman who speaks in what is sometimes referred to as slave-era dialect.[/p]
...so?
Slavery happened, right?
Slaves would at times talk like that, right?
It's history. History happened. You can ignore the past but you can't remove it. It's always gonna be there. Now, this character is also
living in the fucking slums, and is a homeless trash-woman. I would say that the dialect fits, as some poor, uneducated lady. Christ, stop being so fucking over-sensitive people. This is the problem with society today, people are too afraid to say anything that
might offensive, and are the first to call someone out as racist when they see something that might be offensive.
I make racist jokes irl all the time. I don't do it to be hurtful, I do it because they tend to be fuckin hilarious. A black friend of mine from highschool posted a pic of himself on facebook where he had a weird smile and was staring wide eyed off to the side. I messaged him saying I was gonna photoshop it, and he was gonna hate me for it. He told me to bring it on.
A few minutes later, I upload a pic of him now staring right at a kfc bucket, and proceeded to tag him in it. He thought it was hilarious, and even went to far as to set it as his profile pic for two weeks,
while he has a LOT of his (obviously black) family on facebook as well.. I didn't do it to be mean or hurtful, I did it because it was a joke, and I know this guy can take a joke when he sees one. He liked it. I didn't get any hate messages from any of his friends or family. It was a light hearted, funny thing I threw together.