Borderlands 2, Tiny Tina conveying racism?
For all of us that have played or are playing Borderlands 2 we've had the please of meeting Tiny Tina. Tiny Tina is everybody's favorite explosives obsessed, orphan. Well I thought she was everyone loved her but recently the fact that Tina used "African American lingo" was compared to "verbal blackface." All this started with a tweet from Mike Sacco, a creative developer from Cryptozoic Entertainment, to Anthony Burch saying “Hey. I really like BL2′s writing, but Tiny Tina’s trope of 'white girl talkin’ like them urban folk!!” has got to go.” This set off a fire storm of tweets including one saying “Its exaggerated stereotypical low class “black” lingo that with Tina amounts to verbal blackface.” After a series of tweets Burch ended saying “The last thing I want to be is exclusionary or prejudiced, so if Tina truly is problematic I’ll change her,” then added, “I’m just not convinced that a character using lingo like badonkadonk/crunk is inherently ...