because the investigation was not public knowledge until the state filed a lawsuit.
even if we buy this idea that it was public outrage that got McCree fired (even though he wasn't named in the lawsuit AFAIK nor was he the only person in the Cosby suit pic), so what? you don't need a conviction in court to have a private company scrub you from it's history. they're free to do that any way they please...
It's appropriate because clearly you are misreading everything and not comprehending anything people say and its causing you to get hostile.
That has nothing to do with my post..... I never said any of that.
If you need help reading anything let me know and I'll try and change what I write to hopefully help you actually understand what I wrote.
There have always been interactions implying that McCree was an alias, like Sombra hinting that it isn't his real name. He's also used the alias Joel Morricone.
Apparently the new name is going to be worked into the story. Pretty much every other member of Overwatch uses a codename, anyway, since they're illegal vigilantes now.
You shouldn't belittle the struggles of those who have been on the receiving end of unwanted sexual advances. I get that it's easy to mock and belittle them behind your computer screen, but they are real people who faced real tragedies and making light of the trauma they endured just because of associations that had been unwillingly forced upon them is wrong.
You're really using politically charged rhetoric in your argument regardless of your intent. A good example of reactionaries whitewashing something would be the Conservatives here in Texas trying to force schools to teach "alternate viewpoints" on the Holocaust, or, like, making it seem like Christopher Columbus was a cool dude and not an imperialist. Changing the name of Columbus Day wouldn't be whitewashing it, if anything it would be acknowledging and drawing attention to the problem with venerating him.
It just kinda makes it sound like you're repeating words you heard someone else use in a similar context, but not quite correctly.
Sure, they're trying to sanitize their image by removing references to problematic ex-employees. Whitewashing would be more like keeping the name and downplaying or outright lying about what the real guy did.
I'm not saying that can't scrub him, but that doesn't imply he's guilty of anything. But we do know what he did, he was in a group chat and was in group photos, which people were outraged by what he said. Unlike Elegiac who thinks no one was outraged, but he was guilty of something.
Ffs.
I just googled "Cowboy name generator" and the first name that came up was "Samuel Marks" which I actually think is a better name than this
That's the problem they're only changing things because of people being offended. Not because these guys at blizzard did anything wrong. They're changing it to make themselves look better.
And reactionary isn't necessarily attached to any political philosophy. Don't know when that became solely a right wing thing. It's stopping unwanted change in a system.
Holocaust denying isn't whitewashing, because the people promoting it aren't erasing anything, they're just saying there should be alternative viewpoints. That's stupid because that position is entirely unsubstantiated.
Just like saying McCree was guilty of anything, unsubstantiated.
Just eating my popcorn. I have no strong opinion one way or another about the change or the motivation behind it.
But the name is kinda doofy. Sounds like something a 7 year old would name their dollar store cowboy doll.
Thanks for the ad-hominem; it supports your inability to support your argument.
I thought they said going forward they were being "thoughtful and discerning with their real world references" but they drop the last name because the Dev was let go over allegations and rename him in reference to Butch Cassidy?
This got really dumb.
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