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Stephen A Smith is a presenter at the Game Awards
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It's already been a successful show from the start... you know, when they had industry people be the presenters and had actual gaming related performances. God knows we don't need the performances either, same as we don't need nor necessarily want the "how do you do fellow kids" celebrity presenters.
And no, it's strayed far from its celebration of games idea long ago. It's a joke.
I mean nigga is a reappropriated version of a slur , coon is just straight up a slur. You're basically validating the racist notion that there's a such thing as a "coon."
picking a dude that is constantly used as a meme is totally on brand, a lot of ppl consider gaming to be adjacent to stuff like popular movies, music performances, internet culture that's not explicitly about video games, tv, but they are all pretty much under the same umbrella
Actually man you are right Stephen A Smith is a coon. I forgot the Kaepernick stuff brother
Exactly.
Coon is not some light insult. It's a racist ass word created by white slave masters to dehumanize black people, to say we're a rodent, a pest to not be listened to and stomped. Whether you like it or not, "nigga" has been reappropriated. You can choose whether you use it or not as a black person. But, there is no reclaiming coon, it is a racist word used only to denote hate and insult.
That's why for a black person to call another black person a "coon" is a serious charge. You're saying this negroe is the lowest of low, an Uncle Tom of Uncle Toms, a sell out of the highest proportion of which there is likely no return. It's such a charged term I can't even bring myself to call anothet black person a coon no matter how foolish they get. Like, I wouldn't even call Candace Owens a coon because at the end of the day it's perpetuating a racist term towards my own race.
Now, others are free to dish out coonery charges, but you better show your homework when you do because it is such a charged term, far beyond being an Uncle Tom or House Negroe.
This isn't something you can disagree with. Geoff has been going after celebrities the entire time. This isn't new.
And considering who we talking about on this thread Coon is applicable.
Yeah I feel like this is all a big networking event if we keep hiring celebrities to present rather than actual people in the industry. I know it needs views but still feels weird.
I've seen people get banned for the use of "coon" on Etcetera. As they should. Do you tho
A lot of Black folk are just having words with each other in this thread. Please carry on.
Except that I do disagree with it. There are certainly a lot more celebs already announced for this year compared to previous years. I said that I don't like it. Period.
The show is becoming more of a joke and is venturing further into that VGX territory that we thankfully moved away from in 2014.
Not to me. I didn't like how hard he came at Kaep, but he was right to criticize him when he said he didn't vote in the 2016 election. We really can say 4 years later that Hillary would've been the same? And that's putting aside the local officials and concerns that would've been on his ballot. Kaep rightfully got heat for that.
But SAS knows what the issue is and has evolved on it. This don't sound like coon energy:
I mean, whatever you need to tell yourself.
But comparing it to VGX is just laughable for a number of reasons.
The show clearly just isn't for you and likely never has been. There are other (lesser viewed) award shows that seem to be more your speed.
They tried to pick popular people because the entire point of this show is to create a big enough platform that publishers will want to showcase their trailers on it. that's it.
Tom Holland
Gal Gadot
Brie Larson
SAS
Worst ones in what way? Those are massive names in the entertainment industry.
We're just one Schick Hydro celeb appearance and teabag away from it reaching VGX levels. Don't fool yourself.
Furthermore, don't speak for me nor my tastes. You did that from the start and I disagreed with you. You obviously took offense to that. I couldn't care less about your opinion on this nor of me.
I rather have people from the gaming industry >_<
Also Larson is so boring that even her co workers hate her lol.
... But that happened during the The Game Awards, not VGX. And it was 2016. Four years ago.
You just proved my point that you are drastically misremembering what this show has always been.
Man, Stephen A gave Kwame Brown hell. It is one of my favorite clips.
Do you always just make shit up or did you see an alt-right sexist Twitter account say it and decided it was factual?
So you're saying that it's always been trash and it's far more trash now here in 2020. That sounds a lot better.
I've seen previous threads be moderated because people hadn't heard of Travis Scott before, but we're straight up allowed to drop fucking nuclear racist slurs in this one?
What even is this forum's moderation anymore.
What even is this forum's moderation anymore.
I wonder why they didn't try Obama. He's great, fun, he actually plays some video games... it would be awesome!
Yeah, that isn't why those people were banned. Don't misrepresent that.
nothing to add to the convo, just wanted to say perfect use of this gif