14th May 2017, 7:23 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/m...premacists
Looks like the author, who never once intended for this cartoon to represent racists, finally decided to just kill off this character for good. I mean, imagine if Samus became some sort of symbol of hatred tomorrow on the same scale as Pepe. Samus may be popular to gamers, but she's still JUST enough of an unknown to the public at large that for most people, her only identity would be as a hate speech icon, and Nintendo might have no choice but to end the Metroid series for good.
This really has to suck for this artist, but I respect the decision, since his own character is now poison for him to use. Too bad it won't do anything. That frog symbol is going to continue to be used by racists long after the character's "death". Basically, all this means is that the character is now JUST a hate symbol, and can be treated as such.
Looks like the author, who never once intended for this cartoon to represent racists, finally decided to just kill off this character for good. I mean, imagine if Samus became some sort of symbol of hatred tomorrow on the same scale as Pepe. Samus may be popular to gamers, but she's still JUST enough of an unknown to the public at large that for most people, her only identity would be as a hate speech icon, and Nintendo might have no choice but to end the Metroid series for good.
This really has to suck for this artist, but I respect the decision, since his own character is now poison for him to use. Too bad it won't do anything. That frog symbol is going to continue to be used by racists long after the character's "death". Basically, all this means is that the character is now JUST a hate symbol, and can be treated as such.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)