African woman offended by RE5

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/01/african-womens-blog-upset-over-resident-evil-5

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by Alexander Sliwinski Aug 1st 2007 1:23PM
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure

An African women's blog has taken offense to the new Resident Evil 5 trailer depicting a "white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people." The blog post goes on to say that the black people "are supposed to be zombies" and that it's "the white man's job" to destroy them and save humanity. There are some other issues the writer has, but she ties it all up by saying "this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young ... fearing, hating, and destroying Black people."

OK, where to begin? As for the "marketed to children" thing, it's going to be an M rated game, kids shouldn't be playing it. It is rather interesting to note that more than a few people, including The Village Voice, have noticed the setting of the new RE5 and found it a little jarring. Although that could simply be because the average video game may only have one random black character (typically a hero or anti-hero), so more than two on the screen at any one time is revolutionary. The African issue aside, the Japanese developed Resident Evil series has been killing white people for its entire run so far -- how did white people not catch on to this and get upset? Because it's not white killing, it's zombie killing. You're killing them because they want to eat or infect you, not because of their skin color. But now we have black zombie-like people getting killed in RE5 and gay aliens in Halo 3 ... what is this industry coming to? The sins of diversity.

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That's gold. People can be so stupid. Everyone is offended by something...

offended byshooting zombies? lol

i wonder if shes a zombie:twisted:

Ya know, some people are just born stupid. I could take that argument and turn it completely around being offended as a white person. For instance, why is the whole african population of an entire village trying to kill the only white man? See? I can act stupid too. It's friggen africa. AFRICA. If it took place in the middle of China and there was only black people being shot then something would be fishy, otherwise no.

idk a lot about this but from what i know the game sounds dumb. flame me but shooting black zombies sounds dumb. dead rising sequelish thingy? i know its not, but isnt the whole idea of black people being zombies...racist? p2rus

Have you even touched a RE game?

Yep! RE5 is using zombies as a racial slur! You got them!

Damn. I just noticed the people in the game are literally "BLACK". Damn that sun must suck. :?

Anyway. Shes just as racist as her feelings of being offended... Only one good place for people like her.

I hate racism

and I hate it when people go too far to find racism, looking too deep into soemthing that isnt

Get-over-it

seriously where do these people come off, if you are going to critizize something at least do some freaking research on the matter. By the way political correctness is bogus and creates more problems than it solves.

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That's gold. People can be so stupid. Everyone is offended by something...

_en1gma_

Sub-Zero offends me... Scorpion OWNZ ! rofl !

idk a lot about this but from what i know the game sounds dumb. flame me but shooting black zombies sounds dumb. dead rising sequelish thingy? i know its not, but isnt the whole idea of black people being zombies...racist? p2rus

I'm Black and i don't feel offended by the game, i'm probably going to buy it the day its release, plus no spanish people were offended by RE4, people can be pretty stupid some times. SuperMario_46

" the black people "are supposed to be zombies" and that it's "the white man's job" to destroy them and save humanity."

ROFL !

idk a lot about this but from what i know the game sounds dumb. flame me but shooting black zombies sounds dumb. dead rising sequelish thingy? i know its not, but isnt the whole idea of black people being zombies...racist? p2rus

You can say nothing and people will only think you are an idiot or you can open your mouth and prove them right.

on topic: Wait 'til Al Sharpton hearsabout this.

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That's gold. People can be so stupid. Everyone is offended by something...

Virus214

Sub-Zero offends me... Scorpion OWNZ ! rofl !

Batallion Wars offends me. Take it out of your sig please because I don't like it.

Ya know, some people are just born stupid. I could take that argument and turn it completely around being offended as a white person. For instance, why is the whole african population of an entire village trying to kill the only white man? See? I can act stupid too. It's friggen africa. AFRICA. If it took place in the middle of China and there was only black people being shot then something would be fishy, otherwise no.

[QUOTE="Virus214"][QUOTE="_en1gma_"]

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That's gold. People can be so stupid. Everyone is offended by something...

_en1gma_

Sub-Zero offends me... Scorpion OWNZ ! rofl !

Batallion Wars offends me. Take it out of your sig please because I don't like it.

Your font colours are offending me. How come noone ever uses black font? Are you guys racist?

Well when saw the trailer something didnt seem right to me. I mean I know its zombies and RE seires never made any good sense, but the reason why this women and others will be upset is because of the graphics. I mean when I saw it the graphics look so real. If this game had graphics lets see in 1998 nobody wouldnt care, but the graphics look so real. Another thing if someone was to make a WW2 game and in it you were killing jews because of some illness half the world would be against that game. Thats why you have never seen that in a WW2 game.

[QUOTE="_en1gma_"][QUOTE="Virus214"][QUOTE="_en1gma_"]

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That's gold. People can be so stupid. Everyone is offended by something...

iunderstand

Sub-Zero offends me... Scorpion OWNZ ! rofl !

Batallion Wars offends me. Take it out of your sig please because I don't like it.

Your font colours are offending me offending me. How come noone ever uses black font? Are you guys racist?

I get offended by people who reply to my posts. Delete your post, please, or I'll go complain and sue you...