I'm actually a bit saddened by this, because it sounds like it would have been a pretty decent setting. I mean, I don't really care much about US history in general, and the civil war perhaps in particular doesn't interest me very much, but I'm sure the game could have told a good story. As someone not very knowledgeable of the US civil war, playing as a black character in this setting sounds like a particularly interesting approach to the civil war, considering the war's connection to slavery. Then again, there's no shortage of good settings for AC games, so this probably means something that interests me more will get the attention instead, so yay, I guess? I really don't like the political situation being such that you can't release a game like this though - but it was probably a reasonable call on Ubisoft's part, especially under the current administration.
As for Yasuke, I'm not sure if the middle ground if accounted for properly. There seems to be a bunch of people that agree all diversity without critique, and there seems to be a bunch of people that oppose almost any diversity blindly. But there's also a middle ground, which is where I feel like I belong, and I have a hunch people would like to lump me in with the two ends of the spectrum. Maybe the middle ground is small enough that doing so isn't meaningful in the big picture, but I would imagine there's enough of us to not lump together with either end of the spectrum. I'd almost bet someone is going to respond to this by trying to lump me in with the racist end of the spectrum because polarization - already was happening in the news section comments.
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