And a Houston Chronicle blogger recently charged that “by including African-American zombies that a player has to shoot, you make the game unpublishable and racist.”
These folks haven't heard about Left 4 Dead 2, I suppose...
Posted on 09/20/2010 5:57:13 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
It’s a well-known fact that the $20 billion dollar video gaming industry is producing products that glorify “guns, car theft and gang violence” that make parents cringe, according to Peter L. Knudson in the Harvard Crimson.
A game developer recently had to come up with $20 million because of a sex scene in the highly-publicized Grand Theft Auto game, already loaded with violence and drug use.
In this highly politically correct environment, charges of racism are increasingly surfacing as “Mafia 2” was tagged as a “pile of racist nonsense” by members of an Italian-American service group who pointed out gamers might link those with Italian backgrounds to organized crime. And a Houston Chronicle blogger recently charged that “by including African-American zombies that a player has to shoot, you make the game unpublishable and racist.”
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Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia.
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Actually, I think the game they were referring to was Resident Evil 5. All the zombies in that game were black...because the game takes place in......wait for it......Africa. Obviously racist *rolls eyes*. There was actual controversy in the news.
Yes, it was Resident Evil 5 that set off the “racism” alert for zombie games. While the “zombies” in question were black, there was a single white zombie. A blonde woman, in fact. And they weren’t zombies, but that’s just me being super technical.
What I don’t get is why these idiots went into a rage about “black zombies” when all of the VILLAINS are white. ALL OF THEM. The primary villain is a white dude with blond(ish) hair and a Matrix fetish.
Morons.
hahaha. True. If anything, the ‘zombies’ were victims - of the white bad guys. Which fits right in with liberal ideology.
“WWII Nazis can be black or Hispanic”
How could we have forgotten about the division of Black Waffen SS, or the Hispanic Waffen SS, either?
Perhaps we could avoid all those pension costs by simply allowing game programmers to write history texts?
Yeah, you're right, somebody forgot Coach.
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