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Resident Evil 5 — New Character and Gameplay Detail
Erik Johnson writes "New details for Resident Evil 5 have been unveiled in the latest issue of 'Famitsu,' a Japanese video game magazine, including a familiar face returning to the hero role, some info on the enemy, and the revealing of a couple new characters."
"The story takes place in Africa where Chris will face quite an epidemic. The enemies this time are not zombies or Ganados, they appear to represent multiple races which addresses the concern that all the enemies in the game would be of African descent"
This political correctness bullshit has got to stop. Why in the world would it be racist to think that the zombie-people you fight in Africa might be *gasp* Africans!
Conversely, in the last game why wasn't it considered racist when you went around systematically killing Spaniards?
By that logic every video game should just be a rainbow of enemies, all the time, regardless of the time period or location. We can't have a repeat of the blatant racism of Sid Meier's Gettysburg!, a game in which you command the wholesale slaughter of white Americans!
"By that logic every video game should just be a rainbow of enemies..."
Yeah, but that's not the logic being used, here. The logic is: "If we do this, will a really noisy group make a bunch of noise?" The fact is there are groups of people out there that are sensitive to certain things. Some of those groups have strong reasons that recently came about for being sensitive to them. The problems aren't equal, so the proportion of offensiveness isn't equal.
I agree with you that PC has gone overboard, but the reality is that lots of shit happens in this world. I wish people weren't so sensitive but it's not like you can draw a line and say "Okay, this is where your problems stop."
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Are you actually criticizing people for being sensitive to events that are only three generations removed from them? My great-grandmother was still alive when I was born (and for ten years after): three generations is within familial reach. Any African-American born in the middle-20th Century was only three generations removed from the abolishment of slavery, and you can't respect that perhaps some of those people are sensitive to the circumstances of their world?
Do we need to discuss that it took another 100 years from the abolishment of slavery for the civil rights movement to actually ratify African-Americans as 5/5 human that could sit, drink, and learn as they want?
Do we need to discuss that even 40 years out from the civil rights movement, racism is still a factor in our politics?
Your perspective is astonishingly lacking.
Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, but you don't see me whining about it. Why would I? It happened way before my time, it has no effect on me and the people responsible for it are long gone.
If white-on-black racism was still a real problem in the Western world, people wouldn't have to constantly make shit up, like this RE5 debacle.
I resent the way slavery is seen as a white invention that has never affected anyone except Africans. Slavery has existed forever, and in every corner of the world. There's still slavery in Africa, but I don't see anyone doing anything about it. I guess it's just too embarrasing to admit its existence since white people are not involved.