Oh Lord Capcom accused of Racism for RE5

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@ Sqrl

I agree, we shouldn't just focus on equality for one group of people at a time. Equality should be for everyone, and yes we need to get over things, and yes we need to move on from the past.

Personally, I love it when people are offended. Like you said,it makes people think. It makes them talk. That's why Archie Bunker's racism was so great in "All in the Family"-- it was used with irony, and it made people talk and think.

I don't get that same sense of irony from Resident Evil 5 yet. Maybe when I play the game all the way through I will. We'll see.

But as it stands right now, RE5's imagery makes me think of something like blackface in the early 20th century. It perpetuates derogatory ideas. And that can be dangerous.

"All in the Family" was direct with its racism. It loudly proclaimed "Racism still exists and that's not OK!"

So far Resident Evil 5 seems to only say "Racism? What Racism?" And, for me, that's why it bothers me. I guess if we lived in a world without racism, it wouldn't bother me.

Maybe just two different ways of approaching the same problem?