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Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by nonethewiser on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:22AM (#34259220)
Why describe this as whitewashing if 2 of the 3 mods changed all the skin colors to something other than white? Just dont see how you can come to this conclusion from 1 all black mod, 1 all yellow mod, and 1 all white mod.

Its problematic. Maybe racist. But whitewashing?

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Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by noirscape on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:28AM (#34259261)
Whitewashing is what happened with Stardew Valley and my mention of it is just a small bit of history to explain where these sorts of mods come from.

The RimWorld mods aren't whitewashing, they're just problematic and when you take in the broader context of the history of these sorts of mods (not to mention the history of these RimWorld mods on the Steam workshop, as another commenter pointed out, they started with the all white mod and only uploaded the all black and all yellow mods later), are pretty clearly racist.

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