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Do you think Ugandan Knuckles is offensive?
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03-02-2018 12:48am#1
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Modern PC world found a new way to get offended by gamers.
Is it racist? Dont know and dont really care. Its a joke and piss take, which cought on longer then it should.
Being a bit of a tool is not automatically makes you racist.
I have irish and northen irish friends. We always take a piss from each other and have a good laugh without anyone getting offended. For example they call me Polish, when I am lithuanian, who lives in ireland for over 12 years. Never sow it offensive, just some crack. I call them Englishmen back.
As for accents. For a reason me and misses get really pissed off when in movies english speaking people speak russian or put russian accent ( for me ) and try to pass as russians. For misses same thing but they trying to be irish. She even gave up watching Son of Anarchy because of that!
It pisses us off, but not because its racists, but because it sounds **** and horrible.0 -
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Potential-Monke wrote: »You can't be racist against the Irish anyway.
That's a profoundly silly statement It's only 40 years since English folk hung signs on their doors saying "No Blacks No Dogs No Irish" and just because we've got white skin, it doesn't make us immune to being subjected to bigotry.
I'll agree there's a tenuous argument to be made suggesting Irish people are a "race" as that's a whole other argument about genetic distinction and so on - one I don't personally have enough knowledge on to make any sort of argument one way or the other. But if one considers race a social construct rather than a genetic one, then it's a very different argument (not one I completely subscribe to, but I think it's also worthy of mention in any conversation about race).
But in the same way that Shadow mentions his frustration at dodgy Russian accents and the universal hatred most Irish people have for that "stage Irish" accent proliferated by Holywood (and YouTube eejits like our own Jack Septic Eye), I'll bet if you're from Uganda specifically or of African descent generally, you find this Knuckles thing as yet another case of white people pulling the piss out of you which has been going on for centuries and so you put it on the same pile as all the other injustices. That sounds very melodramatic, but one has to try and see it from the other side too - what white Europeans have done to so many African countries for so long is horrific and you can't blame African folk for seeing everything as an attack when that's all they've come to expect from white folk.
You don't have to be a racist person to fall into racist "traps" - it's the nature of institutional and/or "learned" behaviours. It's not that long, for example, that the world has started to acknowledge and cut out terms others find derogatory and demeaning because we're trying not to be shtty people to one another and the internet has broken down so many borders where now we get to put a face to the previously unknown "other." So we cut out words like n*gger, f*ggot, jap, etc because we now realise that this not only offends but diminishes people to label them in such a way.
super_furry makes a great point - it may not have started as a racial thing, but you can be damn sure that the multitudes of internet racists and nazis will co-opt is as a chance to get their little chub on.
tl;dr: I think it's kinda racist and it's pretty dumb
Happy Black History Month folks
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That's a profoundly silly statement It's only 40 years since English folk hung signs on their doors saying "No Blacks No Dogs No Irish" and just because we've got white skin, it doesn't make us immune to being subjected to bigotry.
It was a throwaway comment, and one that is used quite often by Irish people, for the simple reason that, in general, we don't get offended by much. What's the point? There's enough actual racism out there to not get wound up by silly comments or stupid memes. It's the internet, everyone will find something offensive on it (except me, i find offensive stuff funny, but I have a very dark, black humour).
I really don't care what happened up the north 100 years ago, nor do i care what happened in other countries. This life is too short and the world is too sheit to be getting upset over words and pictures when it's not directly aimed at you. But i'm not condoning standing on a pedestal and being 100% racist. That's just common sense not to do that. And there's plenty out there to get offended on my behalf, so i don't have to.
Live your life the way you want, but don't get caught up in faux outrage over a meme taken out of context. Likewise, don't hate all Brits because you're Irish and you have to. Treat everyone the way you would like to be treated, and you will live a happy enough life.
I'm over racism, sexism, etc, I treat people like people, and unless something directly affects me, dilligaf. Too many good games out there to be getting caught up in a social media outrage over pixels and words that are just not offensive unless you* decide to find some. Again, enough rights groups out there to do all this for me. I'll sit here, play my games, watch my tv shows and not bother anyone, and do my best not to get bothered by anyone.
*You, as in people in general0 -
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