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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ebg13 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:10AM (#23732768)
> One reason is that people might feel closer to something that they think superficially resembles themselves.

I agree! And then they proceeded to spread that image throughout the world (commonly via imperial colonialism) as "god looks like me, not you". That closely aligns with the concept of systemic racism.

> Plus it seems strange to me that ...the most offensive or historically inaccurate thing is...

"Most" is a strawman. We don't need to start assigning gold/silver/bronze medals to badness in order to recognize that it's bad and work to change it.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by beaner on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:46AM (#23737202)
If imperial colonialism is responsible for bringing the idea of Jesus to new areas to begin with, then it's not replacing something. I don't understand what's "systemic racism" about that?

You skipped the meat of my comment, which is about closeness and understanding.

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