Oh Lord Capcom accused of Racism for RE5

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:
"A bunch of people out for blood" is a pretty general description, which is why I think that calling it "near identical" is a real stretch.

Is a lynch mob genocidal?

Also, what do you think of my first and third paragraphs? I don't see that you've commented on them.

Hey, if this game were set in the south and suddenly the zombies started trying to lynch black people.   You bet people would see it as racist.

The same thing goes with a bunch of zombies armed with machetes trying to kill everyone not like them.

As for the "Social criticism" angle.   That doesn't really work when they are just repeating RE4.  Just in an insensitive angle.

Also... considering the average writing of a RE game....

That completely misses my point!  You seemed to be saying that the zombies were being incited to kill the protagonists, which makes it JUST LIKE genocide.  Is a lynch mob GENOCIDE?  No.  Your argument is much too general to make a compelling argument that it's a "near identical" situation as the genocide that has been occurring in Africa. 

As for your zombie lynch mob, that's again a much more specific thing, like the gas chambers, than a mob of zombies out for blood/brains.  This is a GENERAL sort of mayhem which is NOT specifically targeting enthicities (only Hutus get turned into zombies? or the zombies only want to kill Tutsis? then I would agree with you). 

And are you saying that they can be racist by accident, but not insightful by accident?  That's just ludicrous.