Thursday, March 19, 2009

Councilman Resigns After Rascist Flash Game Backlash

via gamepolitics

John Dowdy, a Georgian Councilman, must've skipped some important decision making processes when this scandal came to light. One day, he plays what may be a fun, but nonetheless, rascist flash game involving Mexicans and border patrol. So a prominent politician thinks a random flash game is fun. It's kinda rascist (maybe not even kinda, but more like really), so perhaps he should keep the fact he's even played it in the first place a secret.

Nope, he forwards it to all his friends in the office.

So two things happened. Someone was offended, and someone was offended enough to leak this news to the press. Kudos to them, but seriously Councilman Dowdy, was emailing this to your friends the best choice?

At best, you could've forwarded it to your best friend. Like, bestest friend. The guy who's you confidant. Chances are in the game of life, one of your friends is probably going to have objections about you and your choices. So what? Is everyone calling your John "MexiCAN" Dowdy?

He's resigned, obviously to avoid walking into city council to have everyone call him that nickname.

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