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'Fortnite' hosted an in-game event to teach players about racism
- rvz 6y ago> ...a 29-year-old mother who plays Fortnite every day, says she tuned into "We the People" because she was called the N-word by another player recently. In her Twitter feed, she even calls for a ban on the N-word in the game. While it's a step forward and it sounds fair enough, It's difficult to stop them from using it and all you can do is report the account and that's that. But remember that there's another variant of the N-word which is still prevalent in music videos and lots of artists still use it which has influenced their followers to use the term. Interesting how there are some are still comfortable using it given its connections. If they are serious in stamping out the N-word, they should also take responsibility in refraining all versions of the N-word; culture, music and games. There is no other race that has variants of a similar racial-word as a double standard.
- totetsu 6y agoI think the N-word as a socio-linguistic phenomenon has parallels in other words used in identity politics. Reclaiming a word may be some mind of a double standard but, it's also a way of dealing with set of sound that are loaded with all kinds of negative meanings, and has been embedded in a groups identity. It's no so simple to make such a word just go away.