Oh Lord Capcom accused of Racism for RE5

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Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:

Well, what about the fact that Chris Redfield has experience dealing with Umbrella and zombies, which I seriously doubt these villagers do?  I presume that's why he's there in the first place -- in connection with that stuff. 

Admittedly it would have been nicer if the black character was a local ... but eh.  The white guy isn't a big deal from this angle.  Unless you're saying no outsiders should ever come in and save the day when helpless people are getting oppressed in fiction?  I don't want to be derisive but I really strongly disagree with what I can see of your position. 

When helpless people are being opressed in fiction that mirrors real life actually occuring events... yes there should be no outside hero.

I mean... you've yet to adress this arguement at all.

That the RE5 is mirroring real life genocide that's happening.... right now.  At this moment.

I don't know that I can express how backwards I find this. Why does it even matter where help comes from or what it looks like as long as it is genuine and altruistic?  Is it simply because it might make people self-conscious of their inability to help themselves?  I'm honestly completely at a loss on this and I can't address your point if it doesn't make a bit of sense to me which it honestly does not.

The only human genocide in RE5 is by a zombie virus that mutates people (regardless of race) into zombies.

The human genocide in reality is people choosing to brutally kill other people.

I completely fail to see how the reality of the later situation effects the proposition of a fictional instance of the former.  The similarity between the two is the geographic location from which all other similarities flow out of a necessity for coherent narrative.

To say making the game is insensitive to the situation that is ongoing I can understand, but to cry racism because of it is to me the very definition of a non sequitur.

PS - For the record I think RE5 looks pretty terrible, and I really have no intention of playing it let alone buying it.