Tim Schafer Makes Racist Joke At GDC

[Wonktonodi]

badgenome said:

Wonktonodi said:

However those that insist that it is calling #notyourshield sock puppet. That isn't racist, it isn't sexist it's saying you're being used. Used by gamergaters as a shield in fact.

That's not what it means. Sockpuppeting is using a second account in order to pretend to be another person. So if that was his intent, Tim would be saying that the #notyourshield people are actually straight white guys pretending to be black, gay, female, etc., because no minorities could actually think that way.

Thanks for clarifying the term. Though with that definition the joke makes even less sense. If the puppets were second accounts the math should never been off the other direction. With it adding up to more people than their are because the puppets are being counted when they shouldn't.

Even still people can say he's dismissive by saying that, but dismissing people because he thinsk they are fake is different than dismissing people because they are minorities.