I think AoT is one of those things that's much better when you haven't heard any hype beforehand. A lot of it is heavy-handed and overdone but the action part, what it did well, it did REALLY well. Or at least it did for the first half of the series, I think the author took the least interesting route with the plotline re: the big spoiler. I'll roll with it though.
As for the game, it looks pretty cool, but it's a shame they didn't ramp up the challenge and go for the sense of constant, palpable danger a Titan attack in the anime conveyed so well.
Also, if you can't playthrough as Mikasa, no sale.
How is it insulting? There's a shared cultural experience that comes with being white in America, regardless of other factors. Regardless of your economic conditions or any other confounding variables, there is a tangible benefit to being white in America; that's where the term "white privilege" comes from. America is a de facto apartheid state; there is a very real gap in living conditions, wealth, life expectancy, education, and rates of imprisonment between minority and white communities. What's insulting about pointing this out?
Oh I think it's a pejorative just like grouping together any other race and referring to them as "Jewish America" or "Armenian America." I think it's pretty clear that referring to those groups in the same way would bother a lot of people on this board.
The rest of your comment is completely understandable but my objection with elflaconeri is that the notion most Caucasians are uninformed is wrong.
I've never personally heard/seen anyone object to "descriptor America" as a catch-all term, which bears mentioning considering its widespread usage, but let's assume you're right. I intended no malice; substitute white America for white Americans (which is more palatable?).
Do you really believe that most white Americans have a reasonable understanding of the households where no one looks like them? You think the majority of them know what dinnertime conversations are like in the families that don't sound like they do? Do you still believe that when you see that 40% of white Americans have no friends of another race? Or that 91% of white Americans' core social networks (i.e. the people they discuss important matters with) are also white? If so, please tell me how they're learning... it's probably not in school, it's probably not from TV or movies, and if you really think it's the news... well, that's a whole other topic.
What most white Americans are taught is "Racism = Bad, so don't do it, okay?" That's about it. They're generally not incentivized to know much more than that for their day to day lives. As such, they're typically under-equipped in the conversation about race in America and that's a big part of the reason they often feel like they can't express their opinions on race without being ridiculed - more often than not, they're speaking from positions of relative ignorance. Articles like these are opportunities for dialogue, questioning assumptions, and learning.
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