Yo I know they want to educate these lazy kids But this is corny what’s next ? Mario Kart ? @Os Trigonum @pgabriel
I want a playable Jesus character that can reproduce Mortal Kombat fatalities on other notible pacifist characters.
You know this game is about building tall structures so you can snipe people on the ground Kill everyone Last one standing not exactly the game you put a historic figure who was assassinated with a sniper rifle @Reeko @Os Trigonum @Os Trigonum @Xerobull
Jeez Who didn’t realize this would happen Only dumb people who thought this was good idea https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/fo...in-mlk-event-mode-to-prevent-mockery-1640561/ Fortnite forced to disable emotes in MLK event mode to prevent mockery
Much of MLK is Critical Race Theory. So, Texas kids won't learn about him in school. Why not Video Games, the Internet, and TV?
lol A lot of people know about Martin Luther King Jr So that’s why it’s cringe to put him in a game where you shoot people with sniper rifles @Os Trigonum @basso @J.R.
I forgot to tell some of you that Fornite is a video game played all over the world not just in Texas as art history dropouts think
Would it be appropriate to put MLK in Assasins Creed? You know The game where you go around and ASSASSINATE people @Xerobull
No one is saying learning about MLK is not important but no kid is going to spend more than 1 second on Fortnite on it This goes with any historical figure Because it’s a video game for kids with no attention span To learn about a complex figure in history you need a more appropriate time and place for discussion Like a classroom with teachers and students Not your call of duty clan Or those random people on Diablo
Kids in china now limited to three hours/week. China Limits Online Videogames to Three Hours a Week for Young People - WSJ
Apart from perhaps watching a few decontextualized snippets of the I Have a Dream speech for Black History Month or a board book I read in elementary school, I don't think I've ever learned anything about Martin Luther King in school. Everything I know about him and the civil rights era I learned from other people, from books I elected to read, and from popular media. I think that civil rights history should be taught in school but Texas has made it illegal. So I think this generation's kids are going to have to learn about it the way I did -- with people pushing it to you until curiosity drives you to find out for yourself.
The CRT law actually requires some teaching of the civil rights era and names the Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream specifically among other required specific historical documents. So, it's not illegal. But, at the same time, it prescribes how civil rights should be taught and enumerates things that cannot be taught. The prescriptions include things that I think are flat wrong. Teachers will need to be careful what they say and what real historic scholarship they share to not be accused of some CRT-related prohibited teaching which, I expect, will chill classroom learning. So CRT is illegal, but in making CRT illegal, Texas has decided to attempt to reduce our population's understanding of our civil rights history. Folks will have to hunt for that knowledge without their teachers' help.
No. A lot of people don't know much about MLK. For example, many conservative Americans believe MLK was all about "color blindness" and spam this quote: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." while ignoring this quote: “The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” Many conservatives believe because the N word is taboo and people don't outright call black people "monekys" anymore that MLK's mission was accomplished. Nope, not when this: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-fact/median-value-wealth-race-ff03112019 Exists. MLK wanted massive redistribution of wealth. Only then would his mission be accomplished.
