When black and white men are being sold to black and white men.
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Doesn’t really matter if the people being “sold” include people of other races. The imagery of a black person being auctioned off in and of itself is the problem. If the ad had been entirely white players, it wouldn’t have been an issue.
None of your other examples involve a human of a minority race with a history of being sold as slaves. Auctions themselves aren’t the issue.
Hate to be that guy, but technically all races have been sold as slaves at SOME point. I agree that it is a harmful image to have black people auctioned. But not because they are black. But because racial tensions towards black people are still (at least) moderately high, and not enough time had passed. Hopefully as more time passes racial tensions will be a thing of the past and this sort of thing will be seen as what it honestly is, an innocent game, but for now, and rightly so, it’s still a sensitive subject.