Why make the Black Yoshi comparison then? Its so dumb that it kind of borders on offensive. You of all people should know better. People were happy when you could make Inklings of various skintones in Splatoon. People are happy this was continued when Inklings were brought into Mario Kart. Aside from noting "Nintendo could still do better in other respects" what is there to say? Like sure it would be cool if like I dunno, Olivia from Pokemon S&M was in Mario Kart but we know that was never going to happen months ago when we knew the roster of this game. Maybe I'm on edge since so much nonsense has been posted in this thread but I really don't think that comparison from you helped >_<
My point was more so that the discussion of skin tone is irrelevant when it comes to the discussion of actual human representation when you're not talking about humanity or a direct fantasy analog to the human race, but not irrelevant to the notion of inclusion and diversity when you're talking about a completely fantastical race. Yoshis are obviously not meant to be direct human analogs and
so I wasn't equating black yoshis to black humans at all. However, I really don't see anything offensive about someone relating to black yoshis as a fantasy-analog of their own racial background if it makes them happy and gives them a connection to the game. I feel the same way about inklings, though I will admit that inklings are obviously meant to be more human-looking than yoshis are. Even so, I see black inklings and black yoshis in a similar light: fantasy beings with different skin tones/colors illustrating that diversity is a thing and that all tones are participating and relating to each other equally. Why even give yoshis a range of skin colors if not to show that they are both members of different families
and members of the same race/species and community? I don't think the comparison of yoshis to inklings is nearly as offensive as you think it is.
