It's interesting the kind of paranoid culture that has developed around video games in particular.
Why doesn't Dan Vavra get the benefit of the doubt?
It's the natural endpoint of years of the Great Culture War.
For years wokies have never given a shred of the benefit of the doubt to anyone. They were ready to execute anyone and everyone for the slightest infraction, even imagined, just to set a warning example.
As a result, they've cultivated an opposition that now does the same. In order to dissuade the vidya industry from participating in wokeness, forced diversity and such in any way, a growing subset of gamers takes no prisoners. KCD2 might be (most likely WILL be) an amazing game and a single African man wouldn't have been a problem 10 years ago but today, patience has run dry, tolerance is low and an example must be set.
I'm sure Vavra imagined he wrote an amazing explanation why Musa is there but regardless of how interesting and witty it is, the fact remains this kind of representation is highly unlikely, completely unnecessary and almost certainly motivated by outside pressures, despite Vavra's claims of his independence. As you said yourself, he could've easily opted for a Turk or an Arab if he just wanted to make Kuttenberg feel more metropolitan. That would be 100x more plausible and I would've accepted it completely. But no, it's a West African man. Yea, fuck off.
