Mon, Mar 16, 2009 | 18:45 GMT

New York Times: Resident Evil 5 isn’t racist

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Hopefully this’ll be the last word on the subject. The New York Times is the latest in a string of publications to say that Resident Evil 5 isn’t racist. Please let this be the end of it.

Let’s get this out of the way: Resident Evil 5 is not a racist game.

For at least a year some black journalists have been wringing their hands about whether the game, the latest in the seminal survival-horror series, inflames racist stereotypes because it is set in Africa. The answer is no…

So Resident Evil 5 exposes the perhaps uncomfortable truth that blacks and Arabs can become zombies too, just like anyone else. Blacks and Arabs do not have a secret anti-zombie gene. And just like all the thousands of white, Asian and Hispanic zombies that have been dispatched in innumerable other games before them, the African zombies must also be destroyed, or at least neutralized.

That it? Really? Get a lot more words through the link.

9 comments

mightyhokie
16/03/09, 7:14 pm

Okay, so if a company doesn’t include blacks in a game they are called racist. If they include blacks in a game and they are bad guys, then it is racist.

So….am I supposed to believe that every black person in any video game must be a hero? Sorry, that is just not my experience with blacks…or whites…or asians…or any other bipedal descendant of the hominid species.

Get over it.

Syrok
16/03/09, 7:17 pm

No, no, everything that attacks in a game is evil and can be killed. No matter what they look like.