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[White Man]

So is that like an Onion site or something?

No, it's a lolbrel news site. That said, this is one of the more blatantly ridiculous things I have seen there. This is like PETA bad.

 

[Cruzader]

you haven't been to LA much have you? A huge percentage of spanish speaking locals are mexicans. And if usually asked about their nationality, they wont be offended if they're mistaken for mexicans. its not racist at all.

It doesnt matter. Maybe its like that in L.A but not in all the states, especially not in spain.
The right term to use is Latino/latina. Im tiered of latinos, in general, get called mexicans.

 

[Logan Cano]

LOL, a "mexican" accent doesn't even exist. People in different areas of the country speak in wildly different accents.

 

[Cruzader]

LOL, a "mexican" accent doesn't even exist. People in different areas of the country speak in wildly different accents.

Thats what i mean, and for who ever wrote this "article" is a racist prick.[which is ironic calling RE franchise racist]

 

[Herpes Reasons]

It doesnt matter. Maybe its like that in L.A but not in all the states, especially not in spain.
The right term to use is Latino/latina. Im tiered of latinos, in general, get called mexicans.

cultural acceptability, my friend. anything else you're offended at?

 

[Shogun]

Not only does the guy not know what he's talking about, he's cribbing his racism in games schtick from other articles. Check out this Next Gen article Notice what games are said to be racist? The guy clearly didn't even play them.

Gamespot interviews the researcher inspiring the article here

 

[CamHostage]

Also this racist issue with RE games has to stop! Arent characters in RE 1-3 like white? for instance, the Tyrant is white and Mr.X i think is a big scary white dude...lol So RE games arent racist!

Also, I have a feeling when RE5 finally hits that it will have a lot of black folks who are either on your side or are innocents unturned by the epidemic. All that's been shown so far is action, and it makes sense that what's being shown of the action involves the villagers (who are of course dark skinned because of the locale and storyline), but once they start showing story sequences, things will come more clean.

BTW, all this racist accusation and yet this happens to be the first game in the series that more or less integrates the story of real zombification? It's a Hatian ritual (and I'm sure is also in other cultures, although I don't know that it's under the name "zombi" anywhere else... everything I know about zombies, I learned from The Serpent and The Rainbow), and folks in Haiti are black. I know that recent RE5 interviews have said that it's not Haiti or Africa (it's supposed to be set somewhere in South America, right?), but it does feel authentic in a way that these "racist" charges do not credit. A zombie game set around the real mythos of zombies makes a lot more sense, now that they've sucked the Romero bloodline dry, than the Spanish villa storyline of RE4.

 

[PolyGone]

Wesker, the pinnacle of all Evil in the RE storyline, is a blond blue-eyed caucasian son of a bitch.

 

[cvxfreak]

The RE series has had its share of cultural misconceptions, but really now. :lol

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

Maaseru is correct. Im spanish and not mexican and for some lame ass ignorant asshole to call or relate anyone that speaks spanish to mexicas is pure racist!! Like WTF??!?

you haven't been to LA much have you? A huge percentage of spanish speaking locals are mexicans. And if usually asked about their nationality, they wont be offended if they're mistaken for mexicans. its not racist at all.

You do know the difference between SPAIN and MEXICO (or even South America), right?

Hint: One is in Europe and happens to be the center of the argument.

 

[Kusagari]

I seriously want to know how Warcraft 3 is racist. That link says he played these games for 100's of hours. Yet, he mysteriously never seems to comment on why exactly Warcraft 3 is racist but he talks about the others.

 

[FieryBalrog]

The fair and rational response that everyone in this thread will ignore: This person's an alarmist idiot who is trying to spark controversy, but we have a long way to go before most minorities are meaningfully represented in games. The answer lies somewhere in between "games where a white dude kills a bunch of black dudes are awesome" and "games are a horrible racist passtime."

Videogames are a global pasttime. "Minority" is a meaningless term in this context, with all its silly connotations.

P.S. Racism is the most overused and uninteresting meme of our age

 

[Big-E]

I seriously want to know how Warcraft 3 is racist. That link says he played these games for 100's of hours. Yet, he mysteriously never seems to comment on why exactly Warcraft 3 is racist but he talks about the others.

Well I guess he is a supporter for orcish rights.

 

[Sol..]

ROFL look at one of their headlines "Ahmadinejad's Speech at Columbia University Is as American as Apple Pie"

Alternet rules. It's like a liberal battle to the death.

Writer 1 is like "hah, all video games are racist!" and Writer 2 is like "oh yeh.....President Ahmadinejad represents american freedom"

pwnd.

 

[FieryBalrog]

ROFL look at one of their headlines "Ahmadinejad's Speech at Columbia University Is as American as Apple Pie"

Alternet rules. It's like a liberal battle to the death.

Writer 1 is like "hah, all video games are racist!" and Writer 2 is like "oh yeh.....President Ahmadinejad represents american freedom"

pwnd.

Being contrary = being enlightened didn'tcha know.

 

[Xavien]

Well I guess he is a supporter for orcish rights.

Yes! i see it now!

The Orcs are the poor migrants fleeing from tyranny on their homeworld and the Humans are white master-race orc haters who commit acts of genocide on the Orcs (the previously mentioned poor migrants).

The word Racist should be banned, its used for too many stupid things nowadays.

 

[MercuryLS]

Man wait till they see RE5 :lol

 

[StephaneC]

ban this site, worst journalist (?) ever !!!

 

[Campster]

Videogames are a global pasttime. "Minority" is a meaningless term in this context, with all its silly connotations.

P.S. Racism is the most overused and uninteresting meme of our age

I wouldn't really disagree that my choice of words was poor. But at the same time, I don't see how you could say that games aren't developed primarily by those of either Asian or white European descent, and as such many other peoples are under represented. This isn't an absolutely horrible thing, but at the same time I'd love to see a day where the majority of black people in videogames weren't displayed as either rappers, sports stars, or gangstas.

 

[Christopher]

Don't pull the "oh they don't even the play the game how ignorant, we're computer geeks we're better" shit because EVERY RE5 thread has the same cliche ignorant "it's racist" remarks.

 

[nightez]

The only problem with games is excessive stereotyping. Back in the 16bit days it was quite bad Asian and black characters were always getting typecast. Things have changed now. RE isn't racist but its great that the game is getting publicity.

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[plagiarize]

Also, I have a feeling when RE5 finally hits that it will have a lot of black folks who are either on your side or are innocents unturned by the epidemic. All that's been shown so far is action, and it makes sense that what's being shown of the action involves the villagers (who are of course dark skinned because of the locale and storyline), but once they start showing story sequences, things will come more clean.

BTW, all this racist accusation and yet this happens to be the first game in the series that more or less integrates the story of real zombification? It's a Hatian ritual (and I'm sure is also in other cultures, although I don't know that it's under the name "zombi" anywhere else... everything I know about zombies, I learned from The Serpent and The Rainbow), and folks in Haiti are black. I know that recent RE5 interviews have said that it's not Haiti or Africa (it's supposed to be set somewhere in South America, right?), but it does feel authentic in a way that these "racist" charges do not credit. A zombie game set around the real mythos of zombies makes a lot more sense, now that they've sucked the Romero bloodline dry, than the Spanish villa storyline of RE4.

well, just like Capcom never came out and said RE4 is set in spain, i'm pretty sure this is set in Haiti, due to the strong overtones of The Serpent and The Rainbow and similar takes on voodoo culture that i'm getting from the trailers of the game.

something is only racist if paints the message that one race is inferior to another either intentionally or unintentionally... something RE4 certainly never did, and something i highly doubt RE5 will do.

but this is a crazy website that champions a game which paints people trying to uphold the law as the bad guys. i'm a legal immigrant to America. i know what you have to go through to become a permanent resident here. i also know that i don't have the right to be able to go and live in whatever country i want.

why such sites as this seem obsessed with turning immigration into a race issue i don't know.

but then they seem to think a game set in Spain is targetting American immigrants too.

the funniest part of all this is that if zombies or las plagas really did exist, you can bet these people would be defending their rights too.

i wonder what message they'll think GTA 4 sends, as it puts you in the shoes of an immigrant killing hundreds of citizens?

 

[layzie1989]

The only problem with games is excessive stereotyping. Back in the 16bit days it was quite bad Asian and black characters were always getting typecast. Things have changed now. RE isn't racist but its great that the game is getting publicity.

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You mean the copy of Punchout I just downloaded to my wii is racist? REFUND NOW PLEASE

 

[Campster]

something is only racist if paints the message that one race is inferior to another either intentionally or unintentionally... something RE4 certainly never did, and something i highly doubt RE5 will do.

So if I take Mario 64, paint him in blackface, change the coins to watermelons, and change the stars to buckets of fried chicken I'm not making a racist game? There are plenty of ways to be offensive racially without portraying one race as inferior to another.

Plus I would say that taken out of the context of being developed by a Japanese developer who is part of Japanese culture, Resident Evil 5 totally has racist undertones. You're the big wonderful white American guy sent in to save the Haitians from themselves by killing all the infected people who just happen to be almost exclusively black. Now do I think the game is intentionally racist? No. I think no ill intent is meant. That said, it's the easiest thing in the world to see why someone would think it is when taken in the context of American race relations.

 

[nightez]

You mean the copy of Punchout I just downloaded to my wii is racist? REFUND NOW PLEASE

You'd only need a refund is because that game is so dated its nearly unplayable. It cheats too.

 

[OmniGamer]

CAPCOM IS RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll we've known way back since that attract screen in the Street Fighter II game with that white guy punches out the black guy

 

[nightez]

Who ever came up with the idea that RE4 was set in spain?

 

[camineet]

Roberto Lovato should STFU.

 

[laserbeam]

When did night elves,dwarves,undead,demons etc become racial stereotypes?

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

No worries.

These ultra-fey ponces will be the first to be zombified when the Zombie Apocalypse comes; and none of their preening and genteel culture will save them from the release of one final head shot.

 

[rollingstart]

why cant we talk about all the times we arent killing minorities?

I hope this is the go ahead for RE6 to be shit fest crazy in terms of what you kill.

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

So if I take Mario 64, paint him in blackface, change the coins to watermelons, and change the stars to buckets of fried chicken I'm not making a racist game? There are plenty of ways to be offensive racially without portraying one race as inferior to another.

Plus I would say that taken out of the context of being developed by a Japanese developer who is part of Japanese culture, Resident Evil 5 totally has racist undertones. You're the big wonderful white American guy sent in to save the Haitians from themselves by killing all the infected people who just happen to be almost exclusively black. Now do I think the game is intentionally racist? No. I think no ill intent is meant. That said, it's the easiest thing in the world to see why someone would think it is when taken in the context of American race relations.

By the same stroke it would be considered racist if the protagonist were a black guy sent to kill scores of white zombies - we'd be portraying the black man as the aggressive thug hell-bent on victimizing white people. If you set a game somewhere where the majority of people are of any one color and the outsider of another color comes in and kills them, it's going to be called racist. If you happen to make the protagonist a minority and have him kill another minority, that game would be racist by stereotyping/glorifying minority on minority violence. The bottom line is that video games by their nature aren't always politically correct - simulating the killing of a shitload of "people" of any race as any race just isn't "ok" and is ripe for picking apart by those pushing an agenda.

(Of course, it goes without saying that white people can kill as many white people as they want.)

 

[Shinobix]

Wait, what? Villagers in RE4 did NOT have Mexican accent.

 

[CamHostage]

So if I take Mario 64, paint him in blackface, change the coins to watermelons, and change the stars to buckets of fried chicken I'm not making a racist game? There are plenty of ways to be offensive racially without portraying one race as inferior to another.

I take it you haven't played the wonderful but careless LocoRocco...

 

[grenadeguru]

No worries.

These ultra-fey ponces will be the first to be zombified when the Zombie Apocalypse comes; and none of their preening and genteel culture will save them from the release of one final head shot.

Exactly brother. I don't care what color the undead are. I'll kill them all equally.

 

[Greenpanda]

So is that like an Onion site or something?

It's Alternet, so yes.

 

[MWS Natural]

I have no problem as long as in RE6 I get to blow some white people away as a black character...sorry I mean white "zombies" as a black hero.

 

[thebagofsand]

Wow Resident Evil 5 is going to be awesome!

 

[RobertM]

Watched the movie on sunday, it was a lot of cheese noodles, a lot of hot chicks especially the jail bate, fucking awesome.

 

[Scenester]

The end credits of RE4 show what peaceful, family-centric people the denizens were until Las Plagas.

I love those pictures

 

[POWERSPHERE]

Alright, thats it, black people are officially a paranoid race of humans.
If its black, and you can land a bullet between the eyes, its racist. Shooting white people? Spanyards? Naaah, its nothing. Nothing at all. Especially when Resident Evil 4 sells half a million on each console it sits on.

Wow.

Exactly brother. I don't care what color the undead are. I'll kill them all equally.

Lifeist!

 

[POWERSPHERE]

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[Smiles and Cries]

oh this is getting retarded

 

[DDayton]

Wait, what? Villagers in RE4 did NOT have Mexican accent.

I remember there being a weird debate about this back in the RE4 thread... they don't have a Spanish accent, and many folks said it was closer to a Central/South American version of Spanish.

You'd only need a refund is because that game is so dated its nearly unplayable. It cheats too.

Punch-Out!! is nearly unplayable?

I really think the thread should stop for a moment, just so we can all wonder at nightez's statement.

 

[Concept17]

oh this is getting retarded

That it is sir, that it is.

 

[Logan Cano]

I remember there being a weird debate about this back in the RE4 thread... they don't have a Spanish accent, and many folks said it was closer to a Central/South American version of Spanish.

You just grouped together hundreds of accents of Spanish in a single post. :lol

 

[Night_Trekker]

Plus I would say that taken out of the context of being developed by a Japanese developer who is part of Japanese culture, Resident Evil 5 totally has racist undertones. You're the big wonderful white American guy sent in to save the Haitians from themselves by killing all the infected people who just happen to be almost exclusively black. Now do I think the game is intentionally racist? No. I think no ill intent is meant. That said, it's the easiest thing in the world to see why someone would think it is when taken in the context of American race relations.

No, see here's the problem: a rather large and unfair assumption is being made about the motives of the people behind such a game, based on nothing at all. Isn't it possible that the developers at Capcom consider all people equal and therefore don't see anything wrong with the setting of RE5? I don't see how a thinking person can call a game "racist" without some shred of evidence that the developers had bigoted intent in creating it.

Now, "offensive"? Sure. Somewhere in the world, someone is offended by every single thing you can imagine. It's a totally subjective thing. But "racist" implies that the person using the term knows something about the motives behind the creation/setting of the game, and in this case the writer clearly does not and is assuming a hell of a lot as fact (which is pretty goddamn offensive if you think about it). The writer is just being paranoid without anything to back it up and is attempting to upset people.

Like you said, sensationalist crap.

 

[CrushDance]

Hahahahah!

Whenever there's threads like this. I just laugh like a little girl and cry at the saem time. So much fun and blanket statements from the media and gamers in general!

See. Games are fun people.:lol Here's some Gifs!

 

[KurowaSan]

You just grouped together hundreds of accents of Spanish in a single post. :lol

and i don't think he ment to, he's just pointing out that RE4 accent is not from Spain (something i absolutely agree with), but from other country in central/south America.

 

[dfyb]

wait? Warcraft 3 was racist?

well the orcs and night elves are non-whites, so duh it's racist :lol