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Poll: Is Resident Evil 5 Racist?
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What I meant was the people who cry racism without having the faintest idea over what RE5 even is are the ones perpetuating racism because, believe it or not, racism is NOT lurking behind every corner and to be honest, 99% of gamers won't give it another thought when playing it. No more people will play it to shoot black people than they did Cod4 to shoot Arabs.Axolotl said:
And if anyone considers RE5 an accurate depiction of black people, then I would advise they go and get help.
No one complained about dead rising and I didn?t see one non white zombie there. The reason the game is set in Africa is because diseases spared faster there so if there actually was a zombie outbreak Africa would be first to go. So no I don?t think the game is raciest
Did people cry that it was racist when you killed white zombies? No...Wow, it takes place Africa. It means its a new environment, not that they hate black people.
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It would only be truly rascist if other races were left out of the series
Im not provoking anything. To avoid it is racism in its purest form
Its been said its set in Africa. The skin colour has something to do with protection from the sun. If you visit Africa most people are black.here in the UK most peopel are white. Capcom is been realistic end of
If I remember right In RE Outbreak File 2( The one with long loading times)had a black charactor shooting white Zombies. Mark they called him. no Uproar then,Racism works both ways
It makes my blood boil whenever I mention RE 5 my mates instantly yell rascist. I find mysef defending a what will be a brilliant game (unless you hated RE4 gameplay or your a traditional fan)
Also RE4 is Fascist the Spanish never mentioned a word unless I missed that bit.I dont see the fuss about it I think people need to grow up and stop been childish
Its not the game thats racist its the players.
It would only be truly rascist if other races were left out of the series
Im not provoking anything. To avoid it is racism in its purest form
Its been said its set in Africa. The skin colour has something to do with protection from the sun. If you visit Africa most people are black.here in the UK most peopel are white. Capcom is been realistic end of
If I remember right In RE Outbreak File 2( The one with long loading times)had a black charactor shooting white Zombies. Mark they called him. no Uproar then,Racism works both ways
It makes my blood boil whenever I mention RE 5 my mates instantly yell rascist. I find mysef defending a what will be a brilliant game (unless you hated RE4 gameplay or your a traditional fan)
Also RE4 is Fascist the Spanish never mentioned a word unless I missed that bit.I dont see the fuss about it I think people need to grow up and stop been childish
Its not the game thats racist its the players.
I don't think that the developers were racially motivated in selecting Africa as the setting.
HOWEVER, implicit biases against black people are practically universal (including among black people). One is hard pressed to find a culture nowadays where darker skin is preferrable to lighter skin. Rather, Latino, Asian, Indian cultures, etc., all prize light skin and relegate darker skinned individuals to lower social positions (e.g., "Indigenous," "lower caste"). In our world, black (i.e., darkest skin of all) is the worst thing to be.
Now, let us combine this understanding with specific stereotypes of black people to understand the racial issue at play in RE5. Two primary characteristics of zombies (mental infirmity and physical threat) are prominent stereotypes of blacks, but not necessarily of other racial groups (i.e., stereotypes of Latinos don't mesh well with the image of a zombie).
Therefore, a zombie game with black zombies potentially activates our prejudices/biases/stereotypes in a way that a game with Latino zombies (RE4), for example, may not. I'm not saying that we shouldn't enjoy the game, but we should be aware of how a black zombie will elicit particular fears and a corresponding measure of aggression. This may make for a more intense gaming experience, but it may also serve to reinforce our previously held (often implicit/unconscious) biases against blacks.
HOWEVER, implicit biases against black people are practically universal (including among black people). One is hard pressed to find a culture nowadays where darker skin is preferrable to lighter skin. Rather, Latino, Asian, Indian cultures, etc., all prize light skin and relegate darker skinned individuals to lower social positions (e.g., "Indigenous," "lower caste"). In our world, black (i.e., darkest skin of all) is the worst thing to be.
Now, let us combine this understanding with specific stereotypes of black people to understand the racial issue at play in RE5. Two primary characteristics of zombies (mental infirmity and physical threat) are prominent stereotypes of blacks, but not necessarily of other racial groups (i.e., stereotypes of Latinos don't mesh well with the image of a zombie).
Therefore, a zombie game with black zombies potentially activates our prejudices/biases/stereotypes in a way that a game with Latino zombies (RE4), for example, may not. I'm not saying that we shouldn't enjoy the game, but we should be aware of how a black zombie will elicit particular fears and a corresponding measure of aggression. This may make for a more intense gaming experience, but it may also serve to reinforce our previously held (often implicit/unconscious) biases against blacks.
I am a very huge Resident Evil fan. I love the series, I love the books, but I hate the movies (as they were the biggest pile of shit to disgrace the world of theater since Andrew Lloyd Weber made his Musical Theater debut.) I do not believe the games were racist, at all.
Think about it; the game is based around zombies. Where did the zombie genre first originate from? Voodoo practice and voodoo practitioners, whom if I'm not mistaken are African American. The fact that the game deals with a Caucasian male shooting zombified African Americans is irrelevant, about as much as Resident Evil 4 is about another Caucasian man shooting Spaniards.
Although, I still find it funny how the game developers had to change the name of the game's location. In Resident Evil 4, from what I understand, the game developers had set it in rural Spain, but the Spanish government threw a hissy fit and complaining of racism. So the game developers bowed down, and changed the location to Notspain, never mind the fact that the currency of the game is Pesetas, the friendly locals speak Spanish, and the game takes place in a rural part of Europe; most of the time the maps are hovering over Spain.
You see the same thing happen in Resident Evil 5 with Ainthaiti.
Now I also think its equally funny how people complain about Resident Evil being racist, but no one says a thing about Resident Evil being sexist. Look at it; the idiot female sidekicks they've been throwing in lately, Ashley being the most annoying example, as she did nothing but stand there and scream,"Leon Help me!" as the villagers waddled over to her with the speed of geriatric old people with hernias and gout. Never mind that Sherry in Resident Evil 2 actually fought monsters, and actually took nearly two or three times as much damage before she went into a caution mode on her health (and she was only 12!) but Ashley is 20!
I mean, Sherry is a child, and as a child she is entitled to be defenseless and, all in all, stupid. But Ashley, or Ass-ley as I love to affectionately call her, is just a useless prat, all she does is stand there and let herself get kidnapped instead of grabbing a gun and making herself in any way useful! If I had my way, I would have shot the baboon-eared twat right in the face about twenty seconds after Leon found her, and gone on my merry way back to the U.S. to tell the President how sorry I am how I didn't find her in time, as it would save me nearly four hours of listening to "LEON! HELP!" cause the brainless dingbat got herself kidnapped by a slow-moving villager or a giant bug.
But, I digress, you don't see feminists going crazy over the idea of an over-muscled hyper-macho man with a massive arsenal of weaponry mowing down female zombies do you?
Think about it; the game is based around zombies. Where did the zombie genre first originate from? Voodoo practice and voodoo practitioners, whom if I'm not mistaken are African American. The fact that the game deals with a Caucasian male shooting zombified African Americans is irrelevant, about as much as Resident Evil 4 is about another Caucasian man shooting Spaniards.
Although, I still find it funny how the game developers had to change the name of the game's location. In Resident Evil 4, from what I understand, the game developers had set it in rural Spain, but the Spanish government threw a hissy fit and complaining of racism. So the game developers bowed down, and changed the location to Notspain, never mind the fact that the currency of the game is Pesetas, the friendly locals speak Spanish, and the game takes place in a rural part of Europe; most of the time the maps are hovering over Spain.
You see the same thing happen in Resident Evil 5 with Ainthaiti.
Now I also think its equally funny how people complain about Resident Evil being racist, but no one says a thing about Resident Evil being sexist. Look at it; the idiot female sidekicks they've been throwing in lately, Ashley being the most annoying example, as she did nothing but stand there and scream,"Leon Help me!" as the villagers waddled over to her with the speed of geriatric old people with hernias and gout. Never mind that Sherry in Resident Evil 2 actually fought monsters, and actually took nearly two or three times as much damage before she went into a caution mode on her health (and she was only 12!) but Ashley is 20!
I mean, Sherry is a child, and as a child she is entitled to be defenseless and, all in all, stupid. But Ashley, or Ass-ley as I love to affectionately call her, is just a useless prat, all she does is stand there and let herself get kidnapped instead of grabbing a gun and making herself in any way useful! If I had my way, I would have shot the baboon-eared twat right in the face about twenty seconds after Leon found her, and gone on my merry way back to the U.S. to tell the President how sorry I am how I didn't find her in time, as it would save me nearly four hours of listening to "LEON! HELP!" cause the brainless dingbat got herself kidnapped by a slow-moving villager or a giant bug.
But, I digress, you don't see feminists going crazy over the idea of an over-muscled hyper-macho man with a massive arsenal of weaponry mowing down female zombies do you?
Well i imagine if you are black you may feel different but it just makes it more realistic to have black zombies because the last i looked they are the majority of the population. And surely a handful of black zombies attacking a lone white guy could be interpreted as racists but no-one mentioned that. OH and its just a game so is of no real conseqeunce, no-ones going to play it a develop racist views. So in conclusion not racist and neither was resi 4 (although it was particularly awesome)
Why is it racist to set a game in a foreign location? If the answer is, "because there's too many black people there" then you're the racist one.
