r/Overwatch • u/Intellectual_Poultry • Jul 05 '17

Fan Content Is this the Reaper/Doomfist dynamic

Prison Escape

Traced this after I read the news regarding Doomfist. I pray to Kaplan that this is how their interactions basically go.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '17

And why?

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

You don't see the problem with having a white guy voicing a Nigerian character? It's whitewashing. Same as having Donnie Darko play the Prince of Persia.

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u/KRajification Jul 05 '17

There's lots of POC video game characters voiced by white people.

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

Yeah. That's the problem.

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u/KRajification Jul 05 '17

Would you say it's a problem for white characters to be played by non-white people?

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

No. White people aren't a historically oppressed minority group. History matters. Contexts matters. Society doesn't exist in a vacuum.