Resident Evil 5 is racist?

[talisman]

stupid zombieist games.

respect the undead.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Originally Posted by evilbutterfly

Also, maybe it's just me, but black people do not look like zombies when they're zombies. I mean, zombies are all pale and tinted blue/grey usually. Kinda hard to be pale and ghostly looking when you're African. =\

While I do kinda agree with you on this point, I believe that this was explained in the article.

s has been pointed out many, many times, the Resident Evil series is part of the larger zombie genre, in which the zombies are typically white. Resident Evil 4 took the traditional zombie concept in a new direction by crafting a storyline where the traditional "zombie" was replaced by a faster, smarter zombie-like infected human. That game was set in Spain, and all of the enemies spoke Spanish. The driver behind their language and appearance was the setting, not a secret racist agenda. In fact, I can imagine that is Resident Evil 6 were set in India, the zombies would be Indian, or in China the zombies would be Chinese, or in Iran the zombies would be Persian.

[Tokzic]

You can't stand up and complain that your race being the antagonists of a story is racist without looking like a brainless douche.

Let's pretend you're designing this game and have chosen the setting to be in China. So, logically, since it's about a zombie disease infecting everyone, the great majority of those it infects will be Chinese.

OH NO WAIT A MINUTE

We can't do that! What will the Chinese think if the protagonist kills almost exclusively Chinese? That's racist! How can we solve this problem? I know! We'll make a politically correct group of zombies, with equal numbers of every race on Earth in it! Forget the fact that it crushes all credibility of the story and can't logically come to pass, we can't make the Chinese believe that we have an agenda against them!

White people don't complain that we're usually the guys getting shot in video games. Wake up you cunts.

[Chromer]

First of all, every ****ing one of you have nothing to care about, you're not black. Yes, go ahead and say, "Chromer playing the race card only seems to make your ignorance greater, blah blah blah."

All of you can go blow me. In a world where stereotypes reign supreme and your race only serves to further it, did any of you asses actually stop to think that a game where the main antagonists are infected Africans attacking a white person who is the protagonists wasn't going to start trouble? It's bad enough there are racist people in the world who think we are savages to begin with; this game only seems to make it acceptable. You people forget that the African American community is easily offended. Mark my words, the moment the NAACP and Al Sharpton find out about this game, the ****storm will be greater than it ever has for a videogame.

Believe it.

[Darkjakk]

Originally Posted by Chromer

First of all, every ****ing one of you have nothing to care about, you're not black. Yes, go ahead and say, "Chromer playing the race card only seems to make your ignorance greater, blah blah blah."

All of you can go blow me. In a world where stereotypes reign supreme and your race only serves to further it, did any of you asses actually stop to think that a game where the main antagonists are infected Africans attacking a white person who is the protagonists wasn't going to start trouble? It's bad enough there are racist people in the world who think we are savages to begin with; this game only seems to make it acceptable. You people forget that the African American community is easily offended. Mark my words, the moment the NAACP and Al Sharpton find out about this game, the ****storm will be greater than it ever has for a videogame.

Believe it.

No one has said (Or as far as I read anyway) that it wasn't going to attract attention, what were saying is: Who the **** cares?

Seriously grow up, Resident Evil 4 had zombies who were primarily spanish. I don't remember any spanish people or latin groups going "THERE DEPICTING US AS SAVAGES WAAAHH WAAHHH". Im not a racist, but black people are the only people who pull this **** every god damn time

[Relambrien]

Originally Posted by Darkjakk

Im not a racist, but black people are the only people who pull this **** every god damn time

You have no idea what you have just done.

[Darkjakk]

I'm quite aware of what I've done, but I wanted to put my point across. Really I don't care what anyone says after my post as far as im concerned it'll just be a big load of :

[zidart]

yeah i am latin and i wasn't insulted with resident evil 4 (like i said it made the game easier for me), is just a game, those people black, white or whatever are not real, im sure that capcom didn't make this game in africa for a racist reason

[Darkjakk]

Plus the people who created it are Asian. Asian culture =/= Our Culture. Thats something some of you fail to understand.

[alster1]

no no no you see people they actually wanted to make the zombies black so that the game would be more challenging
because it's harder to see them in the dark
oh wait that was just racist never mind

[Darkjakk]

Originally Posted by alster1

no no no you see people they actually wanted to make the zombies black so that the game would be more challenging
because it's harder to see them in the dark
oh wait that was just racist never mind

Oh my... :P

[Squeek]

Originally Posted by Chromer

First of all, every ****ing one of you have nothing to care about, you're not black. Yes, go ahead and say, "Chromer playing the race card only seems to make your ignorance greater, blah blah blah."

All of you can go blow me. In a world where stereotypes reign supreme and your race only serves to further it, did any of you asses actually stop to think that a game where the main antagonists are infected Africans attacking a white person who is the protagonists wasn't going to start trouble? It's bad enough there are racist people in the world who think we are savages to begin with; this game only seems to make it acceptable. You people forget that the African American community is easily offended. Mark my words, the moment the NAACP and Al Sharpton find out about this game, the ****storm will be greater than it ever has for a videogame.

Believe it.

If they do, I'll have lost all respect for either. Defending this article means you're racist, because it means you advocate killing white people instead of black people.

Personally, I don't see a problem with this. As was said before, Resident Evil 4 was set in Spain. The entire game was about killing Spaniards. I don't see any Spaniards raising complaints about this. Does that means it's OK to kill EVERY OTHER RACE except for black people? San Andreas was nearly 99% killing black people. Was there serious backlash about that? Not that I remember. So does that mean it's OK to kill black people, as long as the killer is black? I'm white, but did you see me raising concerns about any other game where white people die? So it's OK for white people to die?

The longer our society lives in fear of not offending another race and just pushing everything onto white people, the longer we live in implicit segregation.

[whyudothis]

k I'm black and this is stupid **** seriously. I wish we would stop pulling out the ethnic minority card so much when theres reasonable explinations. Stupid PC brigade.

4 had you killing the spanish and not one of them cried and went omg this is disciminative. IT'S IN SPAIN YOU WON'T FIND MANY WHITE PEOPLE IN SPAIN!

Same for this one, how many white people do you think you would see in Africa not many, it's common sense.

They are zombies anyway so they are not real people and you are only protecting yourself from being eaten.


Now they are going to have to replace Leon with his new cooler black brutha Zeon from the streets because the rule is you can only shoot zombies your own race.

[RB_Dreamscanner]

i heard chris redfield is half japaneese


ps

I AM GETTING THAT GAME :O!!!!

[Tokzic]

Originally Posted by Squeek

Defending this article means you're racist, because it means you advocate killing white people instead of black people.

thread over

[x6tence]

Black people zombies? since when did we become zombies theres no waaay we can get pale.




-wait im goin to get a tan lol

[tulipan]

well resident evil 4 was about killing us latins, is the turn of the black people

[Tokzic]

What some people don't seem to understand is that by pulling out the race card repeatedly, by going "oh my god this offends me and should be banned/destroyed/etc." you are not only being an enormous hypocrite for not complaining about anything that does not feature every single race equally, but you are also directly harming the cause you think you're fighting for. People who think race has no bearing on any aspects of life see your attitude and are reminded, and are subconsciously nudged into thinking there's a difference between races, especially impressionable people like children.

Being offensive is one thing but taking offense from things that don't intend to give it is ignorant, hypocritical, and counter-productive.

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by evilbutterfly

oh hey I agree with carbo that's weird o_O

im not 12 anymore welcome back to ffr where the **** have you been

Originally Posted by Squeek

If they do, I'll have lost all respect for either. Defending this article means you're racist, because it means you advocate killing white people instead of black people.

Y halo der slippery slope argument. Remember the zombies as far as we know are ALL black. Maybe those people want a mix of black and white.

Defending the article means you're racist because the article takes note of race when race is completely arbitrary. It has no message. It does not advocate killing black people. It is cultural realism.

Maybe we should send more white people to live in Africa =)

[Squeek]

Yeah, because there are a ton of white folks living in African villages. So let's make the game inaccurate just to please random people.

After watching a few Umbrella Chronicles videos, I noticed there are women dying in Resident Evil games. Why aren't women complaining? Oppression!