Poll: Borderlands 2 Writer debate over twitter about the racist Tiny Tina
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I'm thinking that the 5 people who voted yes ticked the wrong box and now can't revote.
On another note, the people who are calling this racist are morons.
On another note, the people who are calling this racist are morons.
To be perfectly honest, Tiny Tina actually brought a bit of intellect and charm to that kind of dialect. Here is a young lady, obscenely intelligent, and diabolical, and has an affinity towards more urban speak.
I know when I hear people talk like that "for real" I just have to shake my head and wonder why we don't care about safeguarding proper language skills.
Hearing Tiny Tina speak in that way though added a bit of class to the lingo.
So Tina isn't racist, the writer isn't racist. In my opinion the writer is trying to elevate what can be considered a relatively "low" brand of speech.
So there.
I know when I hear people talk like that "for real" I just have to shake my head and wonder why we don't care about safeguarding proper language skills.
Hearing Tiny Tina speak in that way though added a bit of class to the lingo.
So Tina isn't racist, the writer isn't racist. In my opinion the writer is trying to elevate what can be considered a relatively "low" brand of speech.
So there.
Watched the clip.Toy Master Typhus said:
I am literally scratching my head trying to find some semblance of racism.
I just found some nutjob girl who's good with explosives.
Even after reading the Kotaku article I'm just left with nothing racist at all in that video.
I guess all I can ask is this to whoever wrote the article.
Indeed it does. And goddamn your Avatar.Ickorus said:
How many people have fallen for the idea that's a real bug on their screen?
This was my first thought, and the first thing I did when it occured to me was laugh. It's only worsened by the fact that these 'stalwort defenders of the minority' are themselves white. I'm sure black people everywhere are eternally grateful that these shining paragons of justice 'stood up' for their weak, downtrodden community. /sarcNeverhoodian said:
Geez, if those schmos think TT is a racist character, god forbid they ever watch this flick,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1296373/?ref_=sr_1
They'll cry bloody murder!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1296373/?ref_=sr_1
They'll cry bloody murder!
Well, it appears their irony detectors are entirely borked.Toy Master Typhus said:
I have a friend who sounds and speaks almost exactly like Tiny Tina. Is her existence a discriminatory statement against black people? Do we have to burn her at the stake? I don't wanna burn her at the stake. ;__;
this tempts me to actually create a twitter account just to say that this writer is an awesome guy and that tiny tina isn't racist, she's just too awesome for some of these people to handle. Give this guy some oatmeal raisin cookies... i mean chocolate chip cookies.
Well, there is one thing that certainly could be called racist in BL2.F-I-D-O said:
The black guy is the only one to die. That's like King Kong era racism right there!
Certainly not racist in my book. If anything, it just shows how far we've come.
She's Pandora's deadliest, psychotic, explosion-obsessed 13-year-old who's parents where betrayed by an murderer. the least the poor thing is allowed to do is behave erratically while she electrocutes Flesh-Stick and derails a train.
And the main villain is a white guy who calls himself 'Handsome Jack'. So there go all the arguments for people who say Borderlands 2 is racisthazabaza1 said:
That's exactly what i was wanting to do, but didn't. And it's not the first time, either!Techsmart07 said:
