Current Events > SO Greeks and Games used a slur in there Prey Review (may spoilers)

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The word is an S word aimed at Native American women. I personally wasn't aware of it was slur. So these people might not have been aware either. but they then went and doubled down .

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/1/AABqjYAADixn.jpg

double down
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/2/AABqjYAADixo.jpg

I have no idea what the s word is.

Edit:
Went and looked it up, I've never seen or heard that word in my life.

What's so special about Greek gamers

yeah I have no idea what the word is

Mods have mercy, this is for educational purposes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw

Can someone just please post the fucking word?

like Im sure mods wont mod it, if its just for contextual purposes

Savage?

Wtf going on. Is the sjwarmy just patrolling oldass obscure writings to try to pin people for shit?

I've heard that term before but boy is that archaic

Squall Leonhart?

Never heard of this word before. But if the modern day Native american finds it offensive and the movie itself doesnt use the word then the reviewer shouldn't have used it.

I know the word. I think its dated. I don't know if its a slur. But I am not native american.

But geeks and gamers is a shit channel regardless

Ohhhh, its one of those words. Only offensive if used offensively. Like "jew" or "arab". Can also be used as a descriptor, which is its traditional use. Used later by racists as a slur, mostly with adjectives attached.

So that single paragraph makes me think they're whining about the woman MC and probably used an insulting term intentionally. Not familiar with the website. How on the mark am I?

Blightzkrieg posted...

So that single paragraph makes me think they're whining about the woman MC and probably used an insulting term intentionally. Not familiar with the website. How on the mark am I?

very on the mark

Blightzkrieg posted...

So that single paragraph makes me think they're whining about the woman MC and probably used an insulting term intentionally. Not familiar with the website. How on the mark am I?

Pretty on the nose, about them in general .

Geeks and Gamers

Blightzkrieg posted...

So that single paragraph makes me think they're whining about the woman MC and probably used an insulting term intentionally. Not familiar with the website. How on the mark am I?

for the most part it just looks like a generic geek news aggregate site but if you click on the television section theres a bald white guy who exclusively blogs about being mad at socjus junk

hitokoriX posted...

I've heard that term before but boy is that archaic

this, I have not come across the word since the eighties, and it was from comics and movies from a decade or two before

never knew it was racist, then again I did not think anyone in this day or age would use it

wow not even an apology, but at least they acknowledged it, guess the reviewer really hated the movie

The movie is widely praised and looked upon favorably by a majority of the people who've seen it.

Can we stop highlighting these fringe weirdos?

There have been several places with this word in their name that have renamed themselves over the past few years to get away from the word.

I just can't see this as anything other than intentional. It's an archaic enough word that, in my view, they likely looked it up and used it specifically because they wanted to use an offensive term that people might not catch onto. The "apology" is utterly laughable and just confirms to me that they knew what they were doing.

I'd be a lot more charitable to their ignorance of their review wasn't mostly just being mad about the main character being a woman and if their apology actually was one.

But frankly Prey has brought out a lot of journalists and reviewers using less than appropriate language, though often not maliciously. All of which could have been avoided if these people just consulted the AP Stylebook, which any journalists/reviewer/writer worth a shit should be doing if they are covering subject matter about a culture they are unfamiliar with. But internet journalist basically gave up having standards.

Just for fun let's see what it says:

American Indians, Native Americans Both are acceptable terms in general references for those in the U.S. when referring to two or more people of different tribal affiliations. For individuals, use the name of the tribe; if that information is not immediately available, try to obtain it. He is a Navajo commissioner. She is a member of the Nisqually Indian Tribe. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Some tribes and tribal nations use member; others use citizen. If in doubt, use citizen. Avoid words such as wampum, warpath, powwow, teepee, brave, squaw, etc., which can be disparaging and offensive. In Alaska, the Indigenous groups are collectively known as Alaska Natives.

First Nation is the preferred term for native tribes in Canada.

Indian is used to describe the peoples and cultures of the South Asian nation of India. Do not use the term as a shorthand for American Indians.

geeks and gamers are cis white guys who think they are the most persecuted group in history

in other words nothing they say has any value

and yea its clear they wanted to be racist as they went out of their way to find a old word they hoped no one would recognize

AceMos posted...

nd yea its clear they wanted to be racist as they went out of their way to find a old word they hoped no one would recognize

These types of people do this alot. Or use a word that sounds like a racist word. Just to say oh we aren't saying it. We aren't saying it.

I never knew the word was a slur either.

I don't think i've seen or heard that word since some book I probably read in middle school. Didn't know it was offensive, but I guess I haven't really thought about it.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

I never knew the word was a slur either.

This and censoring it made it hard to even know what was said. If not for this story probably would have lived life not knowing the word existence.

Lol love how they state it will not be removed because the term was used in a historical context because the movie takes place in the 1700s.

Right....

IIRC, Geeks and Gamers is the guy who did a positive review of The Last Jedi, but when he saw the fan reaction against it, tried to wipe out all evidence of this opinion and has been doing the neo Nazi nerd grift ever since. Surprised he didn't use a worse slur (also it is obviously a slur).

I could be thinking of some other neo Nazi nerd grifter though.

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Yes. It's at its best a very anachronistic term for an old indigenous woman. It's steeped in racial colonialism prejudice, and is so far from acceptable that I even forgot it existed.

Naysaspace posted...

Ohhhh, its one of those words. Only offensive if used offensively. Like "jew" or "arab". Can also be used as a descriptor, which is its traditional use. Used later by racists as a slur, mostly with adjectives attached.

Yeah, nah. I don't think there's any context in which that would be acceptable.

Wow I havent seen or heard that word in a long time. Also lmao that editors note. Pathetic

Anyway the Prey movie is pretty good

Huh. I haven't heard that word in like decades. Never knew it was offensive though.

I remember when I saw Dune and discovered they gender swapped Kynes, my reaction when I got home was to look up who shat their pants about it.

Geeks and Gamers was top of the list. And the dude in the video obviously had never read the book in the first place.

I get not knowing or being unfamiliar, but doubling down for "historical context" when the movie in question doesn't even call her that is ridiculous. It's the same energy as people on CE denying that a word is offensive just because they've never heard it was offensive before

Is the word used in the movie?

Foppe posted...

Is the word used in the movie?

It is not.

cjsdowg posted...

It is not.

Then they are racist assholes.

Foppe posted...

Then they are racist assholes.

If the n-word was used to describe a black person in a period piece would it not be racist to just follow the movie's example and use it as a descriptor of the character in a review?

Whoa iirc we had that wod in our reading books back in the day. Didn't know it ws that offensive

DeadBankerDream posted...

If the n-word was used to describe a black person in a period piece would it not be racist to just follow the movie's example and use it as a descriptor of the character in a review?

If they had used the SQ word in the movie, then it would have been the word for woman (unless we suddenly got white men saying it), and the reviewer might not know that it was a slur.
The N word cant have that "luxury".

Foppe posted...

If they had used the SQ word in the movie, then it would have been the word for woman (unless we suddenly got white men saying it), and the reviewer might not know that it was a slur.
The N word cant have that "luxury".

I agree if they had changed it. But they chose not to. In which case they knew just as much as one would in regards to the n-word.

Geeks + Gamers mocked George Floyds death. Nobody should watch those racist clowns.

did Cher ever apologize or get canceled for the use the s-word in her song half breed?

*looks it up*

Literally never heard that word in my entire life >_>

Foppe posted...

If they had used the SQ word in the movie, then it would have been the word for woman (unless we suddenly got white men saying it), and the reviewer might not know that it was a slur.
The N word cant have that "luxury".

Even if it was used in the movie, it would have been used in context with the period. Any contemporary review using that word doesn't get that luxury, because they should know the historical context and the offensiveness of the word. Nobody should be using that word in any context now.

Compsognathus posted...

American Indians, Native Americans Both are acceptable terms in general references for those in the U.S. when referring to two or more people of different tribal affiliations. For individuals, use the name of the tribe; if that information is not immediately available, try to obtain it. He is a Navajo commissioner. She is a member of the Nisqually Indian Tribe. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Some tribes and tribal nations use member; others use citizen. If in doubt, use citizen. Avoid words such as wampum, warpath, powwow, teepee, brave, squaw, etc., which can be disparaging and offensive. In Alaska, the Indigenous groups are collectively known as Alaska Natives.

First Nation is the preferred term for native tribes in Canada.

Indian is used to describe the peoples and cultures of the South Asian nation of India. Do not use the term as a shorthand for American Indians.

I'm surprised the advice for Canada is so short. It's more complex than that.

I don't think that's used much anymore.

Greeks and Games lol

Wow, what pieces of shit. It really shouldnt be a big deal to apologize, remove it and move forward.

Stagmar posted...

I'm surprised the advice for Canada is so short. It's more complex than that.

AP News primer, so I'm not surprised it's that short. They're only interested in American native tribes.