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[Azzurri]

99% of my employees are Hispanic, and not one of them use Latinx.

Hell, they have no fuking idea what that even means.

It's just a bunch of white woke people who think they know what's good for everyone.

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Fuck most western devs, holier than thou retards

 

[Bloobs]

Damn you Sony

 

[OmegaSupreme]

White people of a certain political persuasion are going to keep forcing that word down Latinos throats until they just give up and take it lol.

 

[GermanZepp]

The game doesn’t take place in Argentina.

Really? I thought the city was Buenos Aires.

Woke superheroes can eat dick.

 

[X-Wing]

Really? I thought the city was Buenos Aires.

Woke superheroes can eat dick.

Of course they can. Everyone can!

 

[GermanZepp]

 

[nkarafo]

The whole game is insufferable. A ton of leftist agenda touches here and there.

Which is a shame. I would really love to roam around the city because it's probably the best looking one in the industry right now.

 

[GermanZepp]

Of course they can. Everyone can!

Yes. Jokes aside. I think is is a political statement in the same manner that Peter saying "let's make America Great again ". Just that.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

I'm Brazilian, I generally prefer to consume content in their native language, so IDK how the Portuguese dub is faring, I'll be sad to see if they use that BS around here, definitely they will receive a pushback if that's the case.

 

[ArtHands]

Sony should really apologize for this.

Seriously a cluster fuck

 

[Killer8]

any examples? out of curiosity

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review: The feel-good game of the decade

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We BIPOC artists are birds of a feather.
To find the next clue, allaband together.

Spoiler: Black Cat

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Personally, I think it would make sense for people to react like this. Like hearing slurs in your native language is always funny and looks natural (and sometimes foreigners are unable to pronounce them properly making it even more funny), but when you have a group of people, living in a different country, speaking different language and they try to attach a label to the whole slate of people...It is racism no?

 

[Varteras]

You're welcome! Foxt3r

 

[X-Wing]

Yes. Jokes aside. I think is is a political statement in the same manner that Peter saying "let's make America Great again ". Just that.

The game is full of political statements. Including against guns.
Peter is a NYC citizen and a scientist, no one would expect him to not have an opinion on several subjects.
It adds depth to the character.

Both the article le and -e termination are current proposals to make the Spanish language more inclusive, Insomniac is a pretty diverse studio and inclusiveness is one of the values they have always embraced in their games. More power to them for sticking to it in such measure.

 

[Whitecrow]

Does European Spanish suffer from this shit too? Or only for Latinos?

Oh we do, but whenever is used by the lefties, it's only a reason to laught at them, almost nobody buys their shit.

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

I can't help but wonder if Latinx is being heavily pushed by Americanized Hispanic folks too (i.e. 2nd and 3rd generation Latinos who have never stepped foot in the country their families immigrated from, but will proudly wave the flag of those countries and put those countries on a pedestal over America). It's easy to imagine it as purely white leftists pushing the idea, but Latinx came from somewhere, and it most certainly wouldn't be pushed by the West unless it was encouraged by Hispanic leftists. They may claim to be against it, but behind the scenes are pushing harder and harder for Latinx to become the new standard.

 

[Gaiff]

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review: The feel-good game of the decade

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Spoiler: Black Cat

BIPOC is such a stupid term.

Black Cat got a girlfriend too lmao?

Come on man.

 

[Gaiff]

Marvel's Wokeman 2.

 

[SmokedMeat]

What are these people going to do with Wolverine?

Activision Wolverine: Cut everyone to ribbons

Sony Wolverine: Tells everyone to be better.

 

[Kurotri]

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review: The feel-good game of the decade

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Spoiler: Black Cat

oh LAWDY

 

[Imru’ al-Qays]

This is actually horrifying

 

[Gaiff]

I like Miles Morales but can't stand how they make him such an annoying zoomer at times. It's also impossible now to divorce him from all the woke bullshit with him having BLM branded gear and all that.

 

[nkarafo]

"Woke" art always looks like shit. Murals like these, in this game or the real world, look like they are made by diversity hires.

 

[Saber]

And as aways, Sony and their games takes opportunity to do woke and politics. Thats why Nintendo and japanese devs are the only good thing for games.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Woke language seems to have that effect. I'm not native English, but I'm pretty sure calling a single person "they" is also grammatically incorrect. The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

Style guides and dictionaries changed these rules in the last decade. What a coincidence.

 

[Gaiff]

The craziest part is that so much of it is straight up unnecessary. Miles is half-black and half Puerto Rican and by far the most popular Spider-Man after Pete and one of the most successful and beloved characters who took over the mantle of an established superhero. He's a brilliant kid, goes to a good school, has responsible and lovable parents, minorities are presented in a good light...but they still feel the need to hit us with BML and BIPOC graffiti? They were doing a fine job depicting minorities and giving them more prominent roles but now have fully stepped into the realm of pandering and outright stupidity.

 

[gaming_again]

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review: The feel-good game of the decade

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is an ode to diversity, positivity, optimism, and progressive thought. Find out more.

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Spoiler: Black Cat

lmao

Thank God for Mario.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

In 10 years everybody will be saying ‘Latinx’ and stuff like this is how it gets pushed. Don’t buy it.

Funny thing is a few years back some report came out about how the vast majority of Latinos either hated this word or had never heard it before, and concluded “every time we use the word Latinx we lose a Latino/Latina vote”. Then almost overnight all the liberal news outlets suddenly stopped jamming that word into every fucking headline and article they could.

Guess the word police decided to give it another shot and see if it sticks this time. I hope it backfires as badly as it did the first time.

 

[X-Wing]

The craziest part is that so much of it is straight up unnecessary. Miles is half-black and half Puerto Rican and by far the most popular Spider-Man after Pete and one of the most successful and beloved characters who took over the mantle of an established superhero. He's a brilliant kid, goes to a good school, has responsible and lovable parents, minorities are presented in a good light...but they still feel the need to hit us with BML and BIPOC graffiti? They were doing a fine job depicting minorities and giving them more prominent roles but now have fully stepped into the realm of pandering and outright stupidity.

Man, the fact that you look at it in that way says a lot more about you than about Insomniac.

 

[Gudji]

89 MC confirmed.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

Nope. Just because someone doesn't feel comfortable being referred to as he or she, you don't get to refer to them as "it." It blows my mind that you think that's an appropriate thing to say.

 

[Gaiff]

Man, the fact that you look at it in that way says a lot more about you than about Insomniac.

No, it doesn't. Stuff like BIPOC is moronic. Now they're making full-on stupid political statements instead of seamlessly integrating sensible and positive depictions of minorities.

 

[X-Wing]

Woke language seems to have that effect. I'm not native English, but I'm pretty sure calling a single person "they" is also grammatically incorrect. The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

No, it's not incorrect to use they in the singular.

You do it in several occasions actually when you don't know the gender of the other person and it is still grammatically correct:

"Who's knocking on the door right now, and what do they want?"
"That person is very important. You can't go around slandering their identity"

 

[Guilty_AI]

No, it's not incorrect to use they in the singular.

You do it in several occasions actually when you don't know the gender of the other person and it is still grammatically correct:

"Who's knocking on the door right now, and what do they want?"
"That person is very important. You can't go around slandering their identity"

Thats only for unspecified individuals or roles. You don't refer to an actual individual as "they", thats just modern newspeak bullshit.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the British Isles seem to be waaay more woke than the US is. I guess it depends on how you classify them re being minor though.

Bruh, US is the OG of all this wokism and is like a tumour spreading. Those countries aren’t even in the same ballpark.

 

[gaming_again]

Nope. Just because someone doesn't feel comfortable being referred to as he or she, you don't get to refer to them as "it." It blows my mind that you think that's an appropriate thing to say.

People 'get' to do whatever they want or say within the bounds of the law.

 

[gaming_again]

Bruh, US is the OG of all this wokism and is like a tumour spreading. Those countries aren’t even in the same ballpark.

from where I'm sitting (England), the US pronounces that it will do a bunch of wacky or crazy stuff, everyone bickers about it, and it sort-of happens. And you're allowed to complain if you don't like it.

We, however, take whatever the US says at face value, crank it up a bit, carry it out on a national level, and then make it illegal to complain about it.

It's difficult to get across to Americans just how cucked the institutional class in England is to the US. Our ruling class so desperately wants to be American while somehow hating the West at the same time. There is zero pushback.

Mind you, the trans stuff is a bit more sensible over here.

 

[Tokio Blues]

Also, this was a trend around 2020/21. In Argentina, my country, it's almost gone. Only stupid people talk like this.

 

[chromhound]

Wokeism is spreading like cancer

 

[Matsuchezz]

How do people in Spain, Mexico, Argentina feel about this generally speaking? It's wild that we're out here butchering people's languages to be 'inclusive' of gender politics. I don't understand it. Didn't hear about any of this even 2 years ago.. what's going on lol?

yo creo que ese tipo de cambios al
Idioma son una basura y la evito a toda costa porque es estúpida y sin sentido.

 

[Ronin_7]

Damn you Sony

Boycott in 3,2,1

 

[diffusionx]

American cultural imperialism is out of control and needs to end.

I think woke people are losers. They cannot make it in life and wants rent free acknowledgement. There are those amongst them, are well off and just doing performative wokeness to gain feels good cred.

American woke culture trying to take over the world. yucks.

Bio-leninism.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Funny thing is a few years back some report came out about how the vast majority of Latinos either hated this word or had never heard it before, and concluded “every time we use the word Latinx we lose a Latino/Latina vote”. Then almost overnight all the liberal news outlets suddenly stopped jamming that word into every fucking headline and article they could.

Guess the word police decided to give it another shot and see if it sticks this time. I hope it backfires as badly as it did the first time.

I hate this stuff, but this is also why I love this stuff - it is creating new conservative minority voters every day.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

When the grammar is just an opinion.

 

[Bloobs]

Boycott in 3,2,1

I bought the game

 

[Guilty_AI]

Bio-leninism.

Neo-marxism

 

[Pelao]

I found out about this a few days before release and actually ended up not buying the game because of it.
Maybe I will when it's on sale, but I didn't want to give 70 bucks to a company that did this.
Nobody in Latin America likes this crap, but gringos insist on trying to impose their bullshit here. It's insulting.

 

[Tams]

Woke language seems to have that effect. I'm not native English, but I'm pretty sure calling a single person "they" is also grammatically incorrect. The correct pronoun for somebody that doesn't identify as "he" or "she" should be "it".

'They' is fine if you don't know or don't care/want to emphasise the subject's sex.

Though, with the latter it's pretty weird to do it without good reason.

 

[Xtib81]

Isn't it problematic to assume their genders just like that? If we want to be better, it would be advisable to refer to them as latinx to make all individuals feel welcome and loved in this important discourse.

Lmao, I hope it's sarcasm.