Columnist Deems Enslaved Racially Insensitive
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Sounds like someone's trying to be controversial to increase page views.
Also, I hate Monkey's character model. Does that make me a racist?
Also, I hate Monkey's character model. Does that make me a racist?
Wow.
This is fucking pathetic, it really is.
At least with Resi 5 you could kind of see peoples' point, but this is just utter moronic bullshit and if I were an African American I would be face-palming so hard over this idiot.
This is fucking pathetic, it really is.
At least with Resi 5 you could kind of see peoples' point, but this is just utter moronic bullshit and if I were an African American I would be face-palming so hard over this idiot.
Yeah, someone needs to tell this guy that the concept of slavery is not exclusively related to black people. It's pretty obvious he's only seeing what he wants to see.
"Olive or tan...." Good Christ.
"Olive or tan...." Good Christ.
Everyone wants to end racism, right? But it's stuff like this that makes me wonder if it's not just bigots who want to see it continue. Gotta make a living somehow.
Didn't racism end when Obama got elected?Tim Latshaw said:
i thought it was about other things like gay marriage or Muslims now
I hope they don't uncover early artwork depicting a dark or black skinned character concept for Monkey. Although I doubt such a thing would even exist and if it did, the team would have burned all evidence of it in order to avoid a huge shitstorm of controversy.
Of course, after all the hard work he's done, working in the cotton fields as a child and being beaten regularly, risking his life escaping to a friendly nation as a teenager, not only learning to read but getting into journalism so late in one's youth? Really, I think anyone who has lived under the yoke of slavery has a right to be annoyed!Foolishman1776 said:
Wait, what's that? This guy probably has a better education than I do?* Slavery's been illegal in the US for well over a century? Well WHY ARE WE STILL HARPING ON IT?
I'm just annoyed people seem to assume slave = black, when history (and current events) has instances of slave = anything and master = anything.
(*I'm guessing. His profile on the website is "" so for all I know he could be a pseudonym or an AI or three white guys from the third floor.)
Ah, the racist argument. The guaranteed fallback for people who don't know what the hell they're talking about, but want to complain anyhow.
If crap like this keeps up, game designers will stop making anything even remotely intellectual in regards to race. Everyone will be a "safe" character, and then nobody can complain. Until they find something else to ***** about.
...are people terminally stupid nowadays or what?
If crap like this keeps up, game designers will stop making anything even remotely intellectual in regards to race. Everyone will be a "safe" character, and then nobody can complain. Until they find something else to ***** about.
...are people terminally stupid nowadays or what?
Sigh, I think most of the people who cry about racism have never actually experienced it. How can you openly advocate self censorship with a weak ass argument like this and decry literary irresponsibility.
If the character was black it would make no difference either, it would be cowardly to pull a game to save a couple illiberal blowhard's precious feelings.
If the character was black it would make no difference either, it would be cowardly to pull a game to save a couple illiberal blowhard's precious feelings.
Sounds to me like this guy is the racist... How did he come to the conclusion that a slave called "Monkey" must be a racial thing? He drew that line, he is the one saying that simply naming a character "Monkey" you are making that character black without him being black.
Y'know what, sir? The word "Monkey" just conjurs the image of a... Oh, whats that weird thing that sometimes gets called a "Monkey"? Oh yeah, a monkey! This guy is the ignorant racist, screw him for trying to take a game that didnt do anything wrong and turning it into a race thing. There are actual race-related debates that need to be had and this guy is wasting time with this because he is too ignorant to do research on the game.
Y'know what, sir? The word "Monkey" just conjurs the image of a... Oh, whats that weird thing that sometimes gets called a "Monkey"? Oh yeah, a monkey! This guy is the ignorant racist, screw him for trying to take a game that didnt do anything wrong and turning it into a race thing. There are actual race-related debates that need to be had and this guy is wasting time with this because he is too ignorant to do research on the game.
so Pigsy isn't offensive? as a fat person i find that he wasn't called offensive offensive, however as a person who read the book this game is based on i am not offended.Senaro said:
Ahahaha. I don't know why I laughed at this.JaredXE said:
And what everyone else has said: he's reaching for an argument that doesn't exist. Italians enslaved Italians, Greeks enslaved Persians, Germans enslaved Romans. Everyone enslaved everyone.
ENSLAVED PARTY IN CELL BLOCK 4, YEEEAAAAAH.
Wait, so, I could see an argument for the game having a flippant attitude towards slavery, or whatever - maybe something about the relationship between the two main characters encouraging a Stockholm syndrome-esque attitude as being healthy, or some weird stretch like that - but where does the issue of race even enter into it? Is he automatically linking slavery and black people?
if anything he would have been Asian since the book is from china........Jeronus said:
mind goes off point...........
want to put in a joke but i think it would be in poor taste so i won't say it......
