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A Time to React: You Put Racism in my Videogame!
Atlas \| 6:58 PM on 12.10.2008	27 comments

"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."

-Stephen King

Resident Evil 5. Farcry 2. Call of Duty 5: Frag the Japs. These games may be new but their ideology is not. The white agenda is a prevalent force in these games, intentionally structured so by the Aryan elite and possibly even the illuminati. There is no doubt in my mind that this conspiracy is integrated with all of our media for one purpose only -- eliminating the coloured threat.

Ubisoft is a company run by the sheer power of fear and intimidation alone. It's parent corporation is Sony, according to Wikipedia (which is a holy bank of knowledge and cannot be wrong) and who else could be running the corporation other than chairman and CEO of Sony; Howard Stringer. Stringer, along with several other important individuals, have been connected to the destruction of mankind and the anti-nuclear proliferation plot. Farcry 2 is a spectacle of debauchery, focusing on the slaughter of African people.

Racism in our games has been around for a long, long time. Even early videogames like "Custard's Revenge" portrayed the rape of Native Americans tied to a cactus by the very well endowed General Custard. This enraged many Cherokee people, powerless against the racist ways of Atari and Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell himself later remarked he would like to have seen a sequel.

And now the movement of the KKK is culminating into the destruction of interracial couples, gays, lesbians, and even gay lesbians. Resident Evil 5 is the final in the "Really Racist Trio" of games. starting with Super Mario Galaxy and Fifty Cent: I Hate My Bulletproof Skin. This "Resident Evil" will destroy all of our values and imbue in us racism toward black zombies, much like RE4 gave us a hatred for the Spaniards, or whatever they were.

But don't cry. We can be saved yet! All you need is a little bit of faith in Black Jesus, known by gentiles as "Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia". Amen to the true African Jesus (23 July 1892 � 27 August 1975).

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26 comments | showing # 1 to 26

MrSadistic says:
(# 0) on 12/10/2008 19:06

Listen, call me old-fashioned, but all I'm saying is put someone in a Jeep with a mounted machine-gun and tell me they won't enjoy running/pewing minorities. If they don't then I have lost all faith in humanity, and by humanity I mean the white man.

Atlas says:
(# 1) on 12/10/2008 19:12

I only run over rich, white males in Grand Theft Auto 4 to avoid moral corruption and political incorrectness.

Usedtabe says:
(# 2) on 12/10/2008 19:19

I'm liking the sarcasm. I hope it's sarcasm. If not, get over it. People are racist because they are idiots, never going to change their minds, and they have the right to think the way they do.

Solgrim says:
(# 3) on 12/10/2008 19:20

I'm scared! As I've been told I have Cherokee, Irish, Mace Windu, Jar Jar Binks, and Floridian running through my blood!

Professor Pew says:
(# 4) on 12/10/2008 19:34

Big words for someone called Fontaine ;)

Takeshi says:
(# 5) on 12/10/2008 19:38

First of all. Aren't you killing the 'true Arians' aka Fucking Nazi's in COD:W@W as well? You do shoot the Japanese, that's true. But so you shoot them because they're Japanese or because you're in a war with them? I don't see why this is racism. Granted I would like a game where I can shoot the US. But if that's the case in COD would I also have to play with The Nazi's?

If I shoot a black guy does that mean I'm a racist? Not quite. If I shoot him because he's black? Yeah, it is. Another example. If the main character in Resident Evil was black and the zombies were white. Is that racism against the white? Probably not. Why not?

I'm getting sick and tired of this issue. Whenever I don't like someone that is coincidently black I'm a fucking racist! That's bullshit. Positive discrimination is as bad as the negative one. I wouldn't want to be 'protected' (can't find the right word) because of the color of my skin. "You don't like Takeshi! He's black, you racist!"

If we truly want a world where everybody is the same we should stop with all this fucking nonsense.

MrSadistic says:
(# 6) on 12/10/2008 19:47

lol calm down

Takeshi says:
(# 7) on 12/10/2008 19:50

Quiet, I'm watching a Will Smith movie.

ThunderHeartXI says:
(# 8) on 12/10/2008 19:50

CHAWKLIT REIGN.

MrSadistic says:
(# 9) on 12/10/2008 19:53

chocolate reign sounds like an awesome will smith movie

Takeshi says:
(# 10) on 12/10/2008 19:56

I'd watch it.

Dogen says:
(# 11) on 12/10/2008 20:00

Hey, sarcasm in print! That's always a good idea!

...

Look, I know people eat this shit up, but what have you contributed to this discussion? I, for one, think it would be nice if developers put a little more effort into mixing up the gender and racial norms that are currently dominating the medium. Not every game that has a white guy shooting black people is racist, but if 90% of them swing that way we seem to have a pattern, and it should be addressed.

Polish Hill says:
(# 12) on 12/10/2008 20:19

I've got no problem adding a little more intelligent humor to Dtoid but I'm not really getting any laughs from this sarcasm post. Maybe its because its all been done before but I just look for something a bit better if its going to be an "edgy product".

Aertyr says:
(# 13) on 12/10/2008 21:33

This is horrible, I feel bad for the bullets. Wait, that came out wrong.

Atlas says:
(# 14) on 12/10/2008 21:43

@ Polish Hill

Well sorry then, I guess I couldn't pull it off... but who do you think I am -- Jim Sterling?

JiR INC says:
(# 15) on 12/10/2008 21:44

and the endless argument begins.....

Tubatic says:
(# 16) on 12/10/2008 22:05

Atlas is right. Super Mario Galaxy was racist as hell.

Don't tell me you didn't catch that bit about the black hole.

I swear, white gamers can't 1-up . . .

Atlas says:
(# 17) on 12/10/2008 22:20

@ Tubatic

Quite true good sir. Also there is the fact that all the Nintendo characters are white. All are as pale as a vampire. A neo-nazi plot for sure.

CelicaCrazed says:
(# 18) on 12/10/2008 23:34

Honestly, I really don't know how I feel about RE5. All I know is that Capcom is straddling a very fine line with the whole "not-a-zombie" thing.

Alright, let me clarify before I get "killed to death". With RE4, the Spaniards looked messed up already, appearing as if they live in the 1800s and burning your bodyguards/escorts at the stake. Right away they showed that they were no longer "human". With RE5 though, it doesn't look any different from what is occurring over in the crisis zones in Africa already. But then again, I haven't watched too many videos for the game because I don't want to ruin too much for myself. I haven't seen any "zombie-like" creatures or even the tentacles coming out of the neck. So what I'm saying is I'm still buying it, but I just won't play it when any of my black friends are around :P.

CelicaCrazed says:
(# 19) on 12/10/2008 23:38

Also, I'm playing through Pokemon Pearl and I'm finding that the game is eerily "white". Non-Caucasians are rarer than shiny Pokemon in the game haha(damn teleporting Abra T_T).

Tubatic says:
(# 20) on 12/11/2008 00:03

Puts on the serious hat for a second:

RE5 is going to play an interesting game with light and dark concepts, from the setting to the racial landscape depicted. Oddly enough, it'll end up happening by no hand of the RE5 team, which in interviews have made blissful oblivious their line on any intent to really tackle race an an issue.

Which is fine, and all. Not every game is pushing an agenda.

Aside from being a pretty hot game, I'm interested in how this game holds up to aesthetic scrutiny and interpretation

Removing the serious hat:

OoT is all over that racist agenda. See how Gannon comes from this swarthy town with light brown tones and foreign social structure compared to the rest of Hyrule? That's xenophobic fear right there, man. Just ain't right. Always keepin' the ambitious evil portion of the trinity down!

Hoodie says:
(# 21) on 12/11/2008 00:17

What Dogen said.

Also, that RE5 trailer did exploit racist imagery.

Seriously, the most discouraging thing is the way people insist on having this dumbed-down argument about racism instead of an honest discussion. Racism is a pervasive force that has shaped much of human history. People like to think they're beyond it, but the truth is most people have some racial bias whether they want to or not. If you don't want to, you'd probably better start examining yourself (and things like that RE5 trailer) a little more closely.

LT Mark says:
(# 22) on 12/11/2008 03:11

As long as people life on this planet. Their will always be hate, war, death, pain, and all the other shit

Clance says:
(# 23) on 12/11/2008 03:27

"or whatever they were"

Hope people aren't taking this too seriosuly. Although there is a valid point in there.

SuperD1984 says:
(# 24) on 12/11/2008 04:47

@Atlas

Is your Avatar a 'whited-up' black man?

TheToiletDuck says:
(# 25) on 12/11/2008 06:18

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