simple64 said:
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But I gotta wholeheartedly disagree with the post qouted directly above. For one thing, you pretty much said that it's minorities and women who are the one complaining, because they are usually the ones with the fallings. For one thing, white men can also blame minorities and/or women to compensate for their failings as well. It works both ways, and is seen somewhat often. Because racism and sexism exists, and it effects everyone. It isn't about minorities/women blaming everyhing on whites. That's not what racism means. Don't get me wrong, you will find plenty of minorities blaming mcuh on "whitey". I see i plenty of times. But one trip through the internet will tell you that it sorta goes both ways. I gotta roll my eyes whenever I run into a "black people suck, because they blame everything on whites, that's why they fail" posts. Racism doesn't always have to be blunt, in fyour face, KKK crap to be considered racism.
Part of the problem is that people seem to think that racism is a dead issue, and only those that talk about it are at fault. No. Racism and sexism exists very much today. On BOTH ends of the field. However, that does not mean that every issue in the world is about racism/sexism. I do think things are far too PC. Unfortunately, I also see people use tjhe "You're being too PC" card used whenever they want to claim something ill of women/minorities/majorities/whatever. Example:
A:"I think asians are filthy bastards"
B:"Please, shut up, ya moron"
A:"ZOMG CENSUSHIP! UR BEIN 2 PC!!!11!"
Which ironically is what that comic was about, heh.
But about the Dead Island "controversy", I don't think it was a huge deal, at all. However, I'm grown and mature enough to realize that it shouldn't have happend. That "feminist whore" comment had nothing to do with the game at all. It was something directly from the devs, which can make people feel uncomfortable. Duke Nukem is pretty sexist, but at least that's in character (doesn't make his game any less sucky, however. Wocka Wocka!). This...was not part of character. Sorta like a comedian who stops making jokes and starts getting serious. When it comes to comedy or fiction in general, it's sort of like a pact between the comedian and the audience, in that everything that he/she says will be part of a joke. We get that, and can laugh with them. However, the second it stops being a joke, is when that pact falters. Sorta like that incident with Kramer. It was all fun and games till he started getting serious. Ignoring the fact that he wasn't funny to begin with.
Actually to be racist or sexist you have to believe in the inherant inferiority or superiority of one group of people compared to another (or compared to all others).
Mostly what you see today is people being judged not by their race of gender, but by their behavior. The problem with things like "political correctness" is that it causes problems to continue by preventing issues from being addressed. In the US in paticular we have a problem where tolerance has gotten to the point where minorities are not assimilating into American society as they are supposed to, and rather creating opposing counter-cultures that bring about a lot of the problems. The issue are things like say "Chinatown districts" where people who come into the US insist on living like they are in China, don't adapt to the rest of the culture, and might not even bother to learn the language, then when they cause problems due to not fitting in or themselves being offensive try and act like the majority are the bad guys. The same can be said (on various topics) about a lot of situations.
See, the thing is that where racism doesn't really exist as a mainstream phenomena, cultural conflict does, as do the people who use the boogieman of racism to reinforce those cultural divides for political purposes. The mainstream is not discriminating against minorities or women, but do have to deal with things like affirmitive action and political correctness which doesn't help assimilation and keeps the style of conflict we actually see going. The fastest way to piss someone off is to give someone else who intentionally doesn't want to even try to fit in special rights, and/or define them as being beyond criticism for their behavior.
In general your arguements come down to what in college they called the "Invisible Knapsack Theory" which has been rather solidly debunked. The "Invisible Knapsack" is the idea that there is this giant knapsack full of things that the majority takes for granted that minorities do not posses and thus form racism. Such as the simple fact that a member of the majority can ask to see the person in charge, and the odds greatly favor it being someone from their own ethnicity, and so on.
The reason why that theory has been trashed as a bunch of liberal bunk, is simply because minority groups by their very nature are outnumbered, so the odds are always going to be against them in any society where they are a minority group. This applies to everything from the people running society, to intitutions like the media and pop culture.
In general most "invisible knapsack" arguements are made using a single race in comparison to the majority, and overlook the sheer number of minorities out there. If you argue for more blacks, what about asians, hispanics, and all these other groups? You can't have one of everything in every media production or administration system. In any society where there is say one boss, the odds are going to greatly favor it's going to be from the majority. In any media production the cast is largely going to be made up of those representing the majority, and similar things. It's an impractical theory with no real connection to reality.
The point here is that there really aren't any racists in the mainstream, or any problems here, other than the have nots always argueing they should have more, and using anything to justify that position, with race or sex simply being a popular excuse. Nebulously blaming society for bigotry, or even narrowing it down to say a large company or whatever, is a way of getting attention without making much in the way of specific accusations (as in, this person is a racist, and he did this) because really there no racism involved. To find a real racist or sexist you really have to dig, and those people are rarely going to be in any kind of position of power or authority because of those same beliefs having made them pariahs.
