Ok so you don't know? You've admitted ignorance. Now go away. There's nothing valuable you can say on this topic.

The company issued an apology. You're arguing against something the company admits to doing. I can say factual things here and get modded down because they're uncomfortable to a certain tribe.

That it's 4 people here is merely an indication of the sad state of Slashdot, both in relevance and as a left wing bubble.

You're ridiculous. People in your camp will defend a black murderer as oppressed, and the white toddler he executed as his oppressor. (I'm referring to a real incident.)

There was some merit to the oppressor/oppressed argument 100 years ago. You're clinging to it for political points. Everyone has been equal for quite some time now, and shoving black characters absolutely everywhere is a tried and true race baiting strategy for companies who benefit just as much from rage clicks as they do from upvotes. It's reasonable to have push back to such despicable marketing tactics.

It's not the black man, it's not even the historical accuracy (though there's plenty of reason to claim false advertising of historical accuracy.) It's the toxic race baiting that everyone from every side should rightly abhor.

That part is storytelling magic. It's acceptable. The casting of a black person as a Samurai isn't. It was claimed by the company to be the historically accurate part, and people saw through the BS.

You better hope the righteous cause you're arguing for doesn't have one stupid person uttering threats, because you're going to be painted as just like them.

You'd never want to be treated the way you're now treating others, so why do it?

Trolls and dumbasses just want to see the world burn. For all we know it's lies and false flags, considering how useful it is to cry about their bad behaviour.

A perfectly insightful comment moderated into oblivion for political reasons.

They cherry picked the most sympathetic employee, amped up the crocodile tears, and portray their company as blameless despite the company also publishing profuse apologies. This is a hit piece against paying customers upset that they were sold a "historically accurate" game with modern 21st century race politics shoehorned in.

It's outrage over false advertising, nothing more. Nobody cried when Afro Samurai came out because nobody promised realism. Keep in mind the person who was "harassed" was hired specifically to make the game more realistic. Companies love taking those crazy exceptions to the rule and painting rightfully angry customers with that same brush.

People have had enough, and stupidly calling someone "racist" no longer has the bite it used to. Baizuos, all of you false modders!

This is why I always browse at -1. That's where the best and the worst comments seem to collect.

Quotes one source and proclaims: "Everyone agrees!"

Dishonesty everywhere, moderated up by your political tribe.

Pray you never get so disabled that you know you'll never again be kissed romantically. It happens a lot. They're everywhere. It's common for people who become disabled to have their spouses leave them. It even happened to Stephen Hawking despite his achievements.

Racism against who? White people are a minority in the world. So are Japanese. They deserve protection and special treatment in order to level the playing field.

False advertising.

The more a company highlights the lengths they go to in order to make things historically accurate, the less forgivable their failures are.

Nobody complained when "Afro Samurai" came out because it never advertised itself to be realistic.

When they advertise a thing they ought to deliver said thing. Instead they jumped on the band wagon of injecting black people in impossible places and then claimed "racism" because that gets them clicks on social media. When the algorithm rewards rage clicks as much as thumbs up, this rotten behavior becomes valid corporate strategy. This getting reposted on Slashdot is an extension of that rotten media strategy.

If you lie down with dogs, don't be surprised when you get fleas.

She proudly shared her association with her company during the good times, and basked in the light of that association. When the company chose to do bad things, suddenly she's not associated? It doesn't work that way. One needs to be careful where they plant their flag.

It sucks that she got death threats and all manner of illegal things, there's no excuse for that, though the vast majority of it is likely justified anger at the company she chose to publicly represent. She literally signed up to be a PR and public face, and now regrets the harder parts of that position. It's hard to feel too much sympathy for a well paid corporate shill.

I had to turn off enhanced tracking protection on Firefox for the site to work properly. I couldn't post otherwise. Slashdot is so disrespectful. They of all people should understand that ads aren't just an annoyance, they are a massive threat vector. Lack of security as a business model is ugly.