Current Events > Remember when Jax ending slavery in MK11 was controversial?

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:39:34 PM
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FlameTurtle
01/14/21 9:40:31 PM
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Gamers are so pathetic, lmao

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ShineboxPhil
01/14/21 9:40:48 PM
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jason19192 posted...
https://youtu.be/jmE_TuekaYU
Good times lol
I bet they were struggling on ideas for jax and just went with this

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Monolith1676
01/14/21 9:41:05 PM
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Phil Lamarr as much of an amazing actor/voice actor he is, is not a good choice for Jax.

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:41:24 PM
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ShineboxPhil posted...
I bet they were struggling on ideas for jax and just went with this
It's a great ending.
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Blue_Inigo
01/14/21 9:41:28 PM
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Only idiots got sore over it

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FortuneCookie
01/14/21 9:41:42 PM
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I forget. Why were people upset?
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CocoBandicoot69
01/14/21 9:41:49 PM
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It was pretty funny that it was an ending
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yemmy
01/14/21 9:42:08 PM
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He did this in mk3 too

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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 9:42:09 PM
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ShineboxPhil posted...
I bet they were struggling on ideas for jax and just went with this
That is exactly what it feels like. Talk about forced

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Hippocrates
01/14/21 9:42:14 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
I forget. Why were people upset?
Why are you pretending to not understand?
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E32005
01/14/21 9:46:15 PM
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i forgot about this.

this caused some stupid arguments on CE

I remember someone basically saying "if there wasnt slavery, Jax wouldnt be mad and go back to stop slavery!"

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FortuneCookie
01/14/21 9:46:15 PM
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Hippocrates posted...
Why are you pretending to not understand?


I can think of multiple arguments

  • straight of being a racist (note: I'm not saying it's justified as an argument)
  • complaining about it being too woke
  • complaining about it erasing history
  • complaining that it's not an appropriate subject for a Mortal Kombat game
I'm guessing most of the complainers fell into the first category, huh?
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UnfairRepresent
01/14/21 9:46:40 PM
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I think it's just literally the line "I'm not waiting centuries for people to get woke."

That's one of those lines which is so utterly comically awful that the fact a whole team of people okayed it is embarrasing.

It sounds like the kind of dialogue you'd put in a comedy movie where a character is trying to ingratiate himself into a group and just awkwardly humiliates himself.

I burst out laughing when I heard it.

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ChainedRedone
01/14/21 9:46:53 PM
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It was actually white abolitionists and white Union soldiers that ended slavery.

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YourDrunkFather
01/14/21 9:47:10 PM
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I remember this line being controversial

And I'm not waiting centuries for people to get woke, when I've got the power to speed things up.

Not the ending slavery part

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:47:11 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
That is exactly what it feels like. Talk about forced
Oh oh, looks like we got someone getting offended about Jax going back in time to end slavery for black people.
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jason19192
01/14/21 9:47:30 PM
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YourDrunkFather posted...
I remember this line being controversial

And I'm not waiting centuries for people to get woke, when I've got the power to speed things up.

Not the ending slavery part
It was the slavery part.
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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 9:47:33 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
"I'm not waiting centuries for people to get woke."
Yeah that was way too much

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:48:26 PM
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ChainedRedone posted...
It was actually white abolitionists and white Union soldiers that ended slavery.
Who were the ones that started it in America?
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UnfairRepresent
01/14/21 9:48:46 PM
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Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-q4bEULG64

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Lairen
01/14/21 9:50:14 PM
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You cant just end slavery without a massive consequence. Or it needs to be explained better. He might as well have ended "evil" or "war" or "sadness" or "pain" altogether.

And other groups were enslaved or oppressed and he ignored them?

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:50:20 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I think it's just literally the line "I'm not waiting centuries for people to get woke."

That's one of those lines which is so utterly comically awful that the fact a whole team of people okayed it is embarrasing.

It sounds like the kind of dialogue you'd put in a comedy movie where a character is trying to ingratiate himself into a group and just awkwardly humiliates himself.

I burst out laughing when I heard it.
Woke means being aware of injustices in society, so how is that line bad?
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DrizztLink
01/14/21 9:51:23 PM
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ChainedRedone posted...
It was actually white abolitionists and white Union soldiers that ended slavery.
Are you telling me that the metal-armed man getting godlike powers from punching a Time Lord with his metal arms is FICTION?!

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UnfairRepresent
01/14/21 9:51:50 PM
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jason19192 posted...
Woke means being aware of injustices in society, so how is that line bad?
Because it's dumb, weird and awkward as fuck wording. Especially in the context of a brief ending dialogue and a dude trying (and failing) to say it with conviction.

Come on dude, even you can't defend that line.

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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 9:52:22 PM
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jason19192 posted...
Woke means being aware of injustices in society, so how is that line bad?
Because that is something a black millennial would say, Jax is a black Baby Boomer

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:54:32 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Because it's dumb, weird and awkward as fuck wording. Especially in the context of a brief ending dialogue and a dude trying (and failing) to say it with conviction.

Come on dude, even you can't defend that line.
I just defended the line. I'm not a weirdo anti sjw like you.
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UnfairRepresent
01/14/21 9:55:27 PM
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jason19192 posted...
I'm not a weirdo
https://i.imgur.com/b6rXVaY.gif

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DrizztLink
01/14/21 9:55:37 PM
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jason19192 posted...
I just defended the line. I'm not a weirdo anti sjw like you.
If you were he'd be talking about how brilliant the line is and still shitting up the topic, just from the other side.

Engaging UR is pointless.

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YourDrunkFather
01/14/21 9:56:13 PM
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Youve gotta learn to be a little less transparent with your trolling TC.

Getting a little too obvious now.

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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 9:57:00 PM
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YourDrunkFather posted...
Youve gotta learn to be a little less transparent with your trolling TC.

Getting a little too obvious now.
This, no black man born before 1981 is using the term "woke"

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jason19192
01/14/21 9:58:44 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
This, no black man born before 1981 is using the term "woke"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

Oxford Dictionaries record early politically conscious usage in 1962 in the article "If You're Woke You Dig It" by William Melvin Kelley in The New York Times and in the 1971 play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham which reads: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk." Garvey had himself exhorted his early 20th century audiences, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!" Aja Romano also claims that an early example of woke was used by Marcus Garvey to encourage blacks to become more socially and politically conscious.
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RebelElite791
01/14/21 9:59:41 PM
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jason19192 posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

Oxford Dictionaries record early politically conscious usage in 1962 in the article "If You're Woke You Dig It" by William Melvin Kelley in The New York Times and in the 1971 play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham which reads: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk." Garvey had himself exhorted his early 20th century audiences, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!" Aja Romano also claims that an early example of woke was used by Marcus Garvey to encourage blacks to become more socially and politically conscious.
lmao btfo

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smoke_break
01/14/21 10:00:25 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
This, no black man born before 1981 is using the term "woke"
How about if the line was this?

"I'm not waiting centuries for people to wake up."

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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 10:01:37 PM
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smoke_break posted...
How about if the line was this?

"I'm not waiting centuries for people to wake up."
That is more believable tbh

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Ivynn
01/14/21 10:01:42 PM
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I remember someone being convinced Jax killed all the white people.

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Murphiroth
01/14/21 10:03:29 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
Because that is something a black millennial would say, Jax is a black Baby Boomer

Yeah but his daughter and Cassie would 100% use it and Jax is 100% the kind of dad to use slang he picks up from his kid regardless of how cringy it is. Hell he'd do it to embarrass her.
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UnfairRepresent
01/14/21 10:03:32 PM
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Ivynn posted...
I remember someone being convinced Jax killed all the white people.
He literally says the world is a better place for everyone

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RedJackson
01/14/21 10:04:14 PM
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Ivynn posted...
I remember someone being convinced Jax killed all the white people.

Lmao

jason19192 posted...
Good times lol

I love how your OP was just this lol


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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 10:04:21 PM
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RebelElite791 posted...
lmao btfo
The article has a section that demonstrates as why my mom, dad and their family members weren't using it

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jason19192
01/14/21 10:04:54 PM
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Murphiroth posted...
Yeah but his daughter and Cassie would 100% use it and Jax is 100% the kind of dad to use slang he picks up from his kid regardless of how cringy it is. Hell he'd do it to embarrass her.
Woke is not cringy unless you're an anti sjw.
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Murphiroth
01/14/21 10:07:04 PM
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jason19192 posted...
Woke is not cringy unless you're an anti sjw.

For clarification, I don't personally think it's cringy. I was referring to the dude I was responding to who felt it was forced.
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Dathrowed1
01/14/21 10:08:43 PM
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Murphiroth posted...
Yeah but his daughter and Cassie would 100% use it and Jax is 100% the kind of dad to use slang he picks up from his kid regardless of how cringy it is. Hell he'd do it to embarrass her.
So you're saying Jax is corny? He said it seriously here

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Ivynn
01/14/21 10:09:22 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
He literally says the world is a better place for everyone

I know. Just wanted to mention one of the more memorable stupid takes I saw lol

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Murphiroth
01/14/21 10:16:28 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
So you're saying Jax is corny? He said it seriously here

Everything in MK is corny, Jax included.
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ViewtifulGrave
01/14/21 10:22:40 PM
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Remember when Dave Chappelle went back in time and shot a slave master?

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Frosted_Midna
01/14/21 10:23:13 PM
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I think its funny how in the story of Mortal Kombat 11, Jax was upset and was assisted with Kronika to get his daughter back. In Jacquie's ending, she rewrites history to save her Dad from getting PTSD, which means he doesn't get to meet his wife, and she erases herself from history. Talk about deep love for your Dad.

But in his ending, well you get what the TC posted. I think maybe as an ending Jax could either rewrite and still meet his wife without going through the PTSD part he experienced in life. Quit Mortal Kombat, leave the Special Forces and be there with his wife and daughter.

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Lairen
01/14/21 10:24:10 PM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
Remember when Dave Chappelle went back in time and shot a slave master?

That was funny.


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BeyondWalls
01/14/21 10:26:08 PM
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My question is... how exactly did he do this? And how did he get his family back after completely wiping the timeline? Seems like those ideas aren't compatible.

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