I'm not taking up for the TC because it's a stupid thread, but what you say is ironic because you yourself seem to be overreacting to my comments. You're also making blind accusations by saying I've never been a victim of discrimination or bigotry by making ill-informed assumptions when you don't know anything about me at all. There's always more than one side of an issue and multiple perspectives from which things are seen.
Sharpton, in many public media stories involving alleged racism and/or discrimination, has jumped the gun by throwing incendiary comments and half truths while on his soap box just for attention and media sensationalism. Sometimes he is right and sometimes he is wrong, but he always plays to the paranoid and over-sensitive people (some of whom are racists themselves or people who take advantage of the politically correct climate), and he likes to use scare tactics by labeling a lot of people that disagree with him as "racists" without justification. That's what some people in this thread seem to be doing by calling the tc "racist" with no discussion or proof.
All I was originally trying to say was that some of us feel like the politically correct society we live in now sometimes goes overboard to the point that any mention of minorities, for good or bad; right or wrong, brings out the worst from sensitive people who like to point fingers and start name calling over nothing.
That kind of "gotcha" politics is on the verge of ruining freedom of speech for everyone.
Bigboi500
True, I don't know anything about you at all, thus I can only respond to what you've written. All I can say is that your comments do not reflect the insight or sensitivity of someone who has had to live with the kind of oppression and suffering that comes with being discriminated against out of ignorance.
You criticize Al Sharpton as if he's never done anything positive or meaningful, which suggests that you don't really know anything about him other than a few widely publicized incidents. Descrbing others in this thread as Al Sharpton wannabes because they are concerned about the racial overtones of the opening comment comes across as an ignorant comment from someone who really doesn't understand what the issues are in a discussion like this.
If I appear to be overreacting it's because I find racism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, sexism, heterosexism, religious or ideological zealotry, insensitivity borne of ignorance, or any other faulty thinking that results in marginalizing or dehumanizing others for being "different" or "not one of us" to be too distasteful to ignore.
Too many games fall far short when it comes to respect for diversity, probably because too many gamers do and the game companies know they can keep cashing in. Assassin's Creed and other games that provide a greater sensitivity to diversity by making sure the games have a more inclusive range of characters regardless of what the actual history was should be applauded, not criticized.
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