doubleplusundead

August 02, 2009

I guess I'm flunking the whole racial sensitivity thing

So I just want to make sure I have this right. A movie is filmed about raising the flag at Iwo Jima, no African-Americans are included, so it's racist. A company doesn't hire a minority because there's a more qualified applicant who happens to be a white male, so it's racist. Creating a video game set in a city that prides itself on its high percentage of African-Americans, and including in that video game African-Americans both in the main characters and in the thousands of walk-on characters? Yeah, that's racist too.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is there some genetic benefit tied to skin tone that renders African-Americans impervious to the virus that created the thousands of screaming horde infected? For that matter, was Louis the only African-American to be found in the city where the original four survivors did battle?* Why isn't anyone crying racism over the original game? And dammit, where are the Asians and Hispanics?!

(doubleplusundead) This isn't the first time some media tool threw a bitchfit because some developer had the audacity to include black zombies in a video game set in a location with a large black population, BTW.

_{*I've since noticed in a comment at the linked post that apparently there are African-American infected in the original game. Either that means I don't really notice race on video games, or I'm a racist for looking right through them. Probably the latter.}

Posted by: Alice H at 10:22 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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Games are easy to use. Games cause violence in our children (yes, our children!), they push drugs and prostitution, and they make our kids into murdering, drug-pushing prostitutes. Politicians are constantly threatening to cast idiotic laws about games that have been slapped down by no less than 7 State Supreme Courts, while fearmongers and crazies decry the violence, the racism, the drugs, the whores - whatever they think is there.

'Course, the Army still uses them for training and the Navy still claims SOCOM was the greatest recruiting tool evah. So, they're only bad if they're not for the military. Well, actually, the military is bad, because they keep getting into silly fights over silly things like tyrany and terrorism. So, scratch that - all games are bad. And should be treated like the black death itself, when in the hands of children.

Posted by: Ember at August 03, 2009 01:59 AM (LdRAG)

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