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it's just pure racism at this point
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Hmmm looked around a bit online and I couldn't find this edited image or any comment about Rockstar changing the cover art from the left to the right. I'm wondering if this is even real, or am I missing a joke? If it is real it's silly but if it's not it's just fake outrage.
The post says that fans made the change, likely meaning this is hard to find
So, in other words, possibly one person did this and now we all should be bigly mad about it?
It's a moral panic.
Look at gamergate forums or on x and they are thousands of people mad about rockstar going "woke" so no its not a "moral panic". Hate people in this thread pretending racism doesn't exist because their bubbles are successfully purged of it that's good but the racism is still there and say your low tech friend who games causally and uses x or facebook or reddit will see it.
Do you have any earthly idea how many of those "people" are bots now? Let yourself get worked-up by engagement-bait if you insist, but no-one-else is obligated to check-out places that are well-known for being places one goes to piss-off others or find something to get pissed-off about. Your "hobby" of engaging with and spreading it without substantiation vs reality doesn't make you "more aware", it just makes you part of the problem.
Okay then don't downplay existing racism because you successfully avoid it. That's helping no one end racism.
You're literally promoting specific fan-art, spreading it far beyond what it ever would have reached otherwise, in your efforts to "end" racism. If anyone's watering down existing racism, its you and people who act as you do.
How am promoting and spreading it?
Had you seen it before this post? I hadn't. Same likely applies to a bunch of people who think its(the white girl part) awesome(better than the original - I am NOT of such opinion) and can't wait to share it with their friends. Making it part of rage-bait just amplifies the Streisand Effect.
If "art"upsets you so much, the thing to do is promote good art instead, or do literally anything else with your day. Maybe discuss the most, or any of, recent shootings of black teenagers by cops over a water bottle or panty-hose or some other stand-in we all know amounts to Cop+"excuse"+minority=media trying to spin it and thousands of "white people suck" memes.
There are so many of those memes and events that are true and verified from end-to-end and back that anyone promoting the made-up gibberish like this one should be called-out for what they are actually doing - intentionally distracting others and discrediting the people who really care.
"Such and such minority and anyone who really cares is just sooo upset that verifying things is an un-due burden" has no place on the internet - it paints them as dumb, ignorant, likely corrupt, and serves only to drive-away anyone who can be driven-away.
To get to the point where Counter-Revolutionaries are the only ones left to purge, over 90% of the people who make revolutions happen according to all the revolutions that reached that point, you first need their help with the revolution.
If you want to avoid a spot next to me on the wall, maybe don't promote the cults of personality that substitute for ideals once they get the chance. Skin color or the right in-group won't save you then.
Oh, I follow now. The way I read it initially it was that fans were mad about it and they got it changed, not that they made it themselves. Thanks for the clarification!