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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Xbox Getting Roasted For “Our Blacks” Tweet

Immersiveunreality on 24 March 2019
shikamaru317 said:

The outrage is kind of a non-issue, the name was picked by black developers at Xbox. 

It does kind of irk me that the supposedly all-inclusive left doesn't see the problem with highlighting a single group above all others though. Xbox has been doing it alot lately, specially honoring their female developers and now their black developers. You will never see them honor white males or Asian males in a similar fashion, mark my words. 

Yeah the people in the group chose to make an only black group and people act like like it is racism towards blacks that made it happen while it could be considered racist by those same type of people on the group itself if you switch colors.

This is a case of ideology being so strong that instead of people possessing it,they're being possessed by it and are unable to take a step back to see the full picture.



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thismeintiel on 24 March 2019
crissindahouse said:
Reading comprehension needs to be better taught at school.

Don't you mean taught gooder? God, this guy over here.



 

Azzanation on 24 March 2019

How sad that anyone would find that racist.



Ganoncrotch on 24 March 2019
shikamaru317 said:

The outrage is kind of a non-issue, the name was picked by black developers at Xbox. 

It does kind of irk me that the supposedly all-inclusive left doesn't see the problem with highlighting a single group above all others though. Xbox has been doing it alot lately, specially honoring their female developers and now their black developers. You will never see them honor white males or Asian males in a similar fashion, mark my words. 

Or the fact that there is a group who's membership is based entirely on being the correct colour to get in. Flip the table and imagine this group was called whites at Xbox and didn't allow anything else in it... Racist groups are racist even if it's racism against white.

Sad that people can't or don't want to see that



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haxxiy on 24 March 2019
DeusXmachina said:

It says our Blacks at Xbox community. Reading only the first two words means you lack reading comprehension.

Also Blacks at xbox are a group of black people that work for xbox and thats how they decided to call themselves so this is a non issue.

It's a garden-path sentence. A merely unfortunate occurence, yes, but one that should have been avoided in marketing communication.

That's not to say syntactic ambiguity has no place in advertising, but that's obviously not the case here.



 

 

 

 

 

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ArchangelMadzz on 24 March 2019

Hahaha this is hilarious.

It's not that bad, it's funny though.



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SuperRetroTurbo on 24 March 2019

I'm watching a show, clearly geared towards black people. On a predominantly black channel. It's practically all black all day. The content is black this and black that. One black woman did her best impression of what a white woman would sound like. Black people laughed. Why is it perfectly fine to express a black narrative amongst black people but something as innocent as that title is considered offensive?



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kirby007 on 24 March 2019

Atleast it wasnt naggers at xbox, right?



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chakkra on 24 March 2019

Seems to me that it's always a lose lose situation with black people on U.S.


As far as I understand a group of black folks came up with the idea for this group and its name. If MS had denied the permition to do it then they would have been shredded to pieces by the media.



Immersiveunreality on 24 March 2019
RolStoppable said:
shikamaru317 said:

The outrage is kind of a non-issue, the name was picked by black developers at Xbox. 

It does kind of irk me that the supposedly all-inclusive left doesn't see the problem with highlighting a single group above all others though. Xbox has been doing it alot lately, specially honoring their female developers and now their black developers. You will never see them honor white males or Asian males in a similar fashion, mark my words. 

Xbox is where it is because of the leadership of white males and Asian males. You don't honor the people who are to blame.

Yeah i agree, the source of the "problem" is that this kind of separation inside of the company was allowed in the first place.