| Shanobi said:
So the people in RE5 were stereotypes, but the people in RE4 were not?
History has nothing to do with this. You can find so many races that have gone through oppression of all varieties. Saying "no, you can't do that with africans" just sounds like white guilt, and only allows the breeding of more hate. We shouldn't be playing the game of "you can't depict these people in this way, but *these* people are fine."
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Indeed: people in RE5 were racial stereotypes, but the people in RE4 were not.
And history has everything to do with this, as long as history will affect the undertones that the scenes depicted have for those who watch/play them. Rationalizing in terms of "it's all in the past, so 50 years ago or 500 years ago is the same" is shallow.
