Oh Lord Capcom accused of Racism for RE5

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Kasz216 said:

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Kasz216 said:

But heres the thing.  Unlike the US or Spain.....

these things DO happen in Africa.  They're happening right now.

It seems kinda sick to make a game where your shooting a bunch of genocidal zombies in an area where people are doing nothing about a bunch of genocidal people.

 

So because something similar is happening it is racism?  I don't know that I follow the logic there.  

I agree these are sensitive issues with a lot of emotion to them, and it may refresh the tragedy for people and cause a large emotional reaction....but how does that make this racism?

As I said quite clearly in my post, a legitimate argument can be made on the issue of the violence,  but my point was in bringing race into that discussion and I don't see how you contradict me at all....unless I misread your intentions.

 

It's because of who is coming in to fix the problems.  It suggests that such problems are beyond the reach of the native people within.  Which isn't a problem when fictional, but when the problems are very real and ongoing...

For example.  Lets take the pay discimation problems that women face.

What if there is a game where this problem is suddenly fixed by a guy because all the women are too incompetant to stop it and change things from going on?

Or a game set during the Indian Removal act of US history... and the Indians are saved by some Asian person who came from nowhere as the Indians are helpless in stopping it.

 

I'm really having a hard time following your point, are you saying that the game is racist or presumptuous?

Your examples I'm even more confused by...so you're saying games can't have heroes because it might make the people they save feel inferior because their own racism/sexism tinged worldview forces them to identify the racial/sexual differences between them as important?  Sorry but I reject that outright. 

I would again point out that these people would be inherently promoting sexism and racism respectively because they are placing importance on the sex and race of the people who help them in the example. The entire point is that you have one person helping/saving other people. Whichever side/group/person brings up the racial/sexual differences and tries to place importance in those differences is the one promoting racism/sexism, period.