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There's nothing racist about it. Different cultures can act in different ways compared to you. Expecting every single culture to act like you do is what a colonizer does. You again check the box, funny how that works.
Also, show me the quote that states that in Re5, I haven't seen it and it sounds interesting.
I'm not here to educate you. But it's a neo Marxist philosophy teaching of looking at everything in the world through the lense of race and gender with a big spoon of classic marxist "the oppressor and the oppressed" bullsh1t. That's why the first think you do playing a Resident Evil videogame is freak out about how racist the game is, while millions of normal people enjoy the badass action and story.
That sounds pretty racist of you. What "their western masters" (Japan is a sovereign country with thousand years long history) have to do with them making a resident evil game set in Africa? Were their "western colonizing masters" in the room with them when they created RE1, 2 and 3 as well? Basically you're saying the Japanese are incapable of independent creative process which is the most racist thing I've heard in this thread.
See, that's how to tell you're completely batsh1t insane and brainwashed. What you're saying is that there's no way to make a game set in Africa without being a disgusting colonizing racist. You're a complete white guilt-ridden NPC, an absolute woke moron and ironically the biggest racist of all in this thread.
The portrayal is one of hyperviolence, a completely inaccurate phobic stereotype, once again routinely put forwards during colonisation to justify massacring the people being colonised when they resist colonisation.
I'll find it if you answer my questions that you ignored.
No, you're not here to 'educate' me, I can see that clearly. I can't seem to find anything that connects critical race theory to Marxism at all. It appears to be nothing more than the acknowledgement and analysis of systemic racism rather than individual racism. But you don't seem to think racism is real anyway (unless someone calls it out, in which that person is the real racist for noticing racism...), and now you're saying oppression doesn't exist. Nope, I never freaked out about racism in RE5, you did. All I did was notice it and play the game anyway, for thousands of hours across multiple consoles and now finally on my PC. I mostly notice it when someone says it isn't there, and then I have to say no, it actually kind of is there.
More strawmen. Setting the game in Africa is not the problem. Depicting the setting like Rambo meets Rudyard Kipling meets decades-old AIDs commercials, that may be more the thing people take issue with.
It's no secret how much influence the US has had on Japanese culture, media, and economics since the end of WWII, something Japanese media often pokes fun at. And yes, there's a reason nearly all RE characters are white, ironically even in the one game set in Africa. I never held that against the early RE games (my actual favourite games in the world), but the reason that happened is the racism in the US. We just made jokes about how 'prosaic' the character names were.
Once again, no, I never said the Japanese are incapable of independent thought, you said that. That would be racist, so good job at least admitting racism is possible. But what I said referenced the US's hold over Japan (I shouldn't have to disclaim this but Japan is hardly unique in that regard), and the fact that to a degree, we're all products of our environments and nobody is capable of 100% independent thought, especially if they haven't questioned their cognitive biases developed over the course of growing up in a given environment.
I've already responded to this strawman above. I do find it ironic that I have no guilt for any of this but you seem to, and you use all the same lines I hear from all the other racists. You know, like an NPC.
People don't have to talk and say certain, specific things just because they're black. That's very racist of you to expect. You again check out. Many black people call out race grifters, you don't have to be white to see the hypocricy in CRT brainwashed fools.
There's nothing inaccurate to state many African tribes lacked severely in technology and settlers brought them the technology. It's a hostoric fact.
The reason for this portrayal is people being infected with the virus, not "phobic stereotypes". You again unable to see the game and its plot without the lense of critical race theory, where any portrayal of blacks or their culture is racist and problematic.
You are the definition of a race obsessed, woke imbесilе, there's really no reason for anyone to waste time on you.
You try to blame other countries for the failures of Africa, but the true facts show despite Africa having a massive amount of time and resources means either the people of Africa were not smart enough to stop enemies OR they allowed themselves to be manipulated by enemies. In reality Africa should have several Wakanda types of advanced civilizations today due to the huge time advantages and abundant resources, but it's the opposite because they have the most 4th world countries.
Blame victim / 10
What's the grift exactly?
Wow, this is really something. You're more outraged by someone saying the game you like is one of their favourite games but also accidentally (probably) a little racist, than you are by an open Nazi lying that the Atlantic slave trade and continued debt peonage have been a net positive for Africa. In fact, you are misrepresenting the exchange to make the Nazi look more favourable.
No, again, the infection is a lore justification for them acting 'scary' and that scariness is borrowed fairly wholesale from some racist imagery. And again again, because you strawman constantly, no, they didn't portray black culture, that was the whole problem to begin with. Unless you think the Majini are representative of black culture, which would be shocking.
Out of a nearly 100% black region of a mostly black continent, somehow 95% of the characters are white, and only one actually reads as African, unless you count Doug from the DLC, who is very cool but has a small part, no figurine, and dies, and then you're at two (and they're played by Americans anyway). Sheva reads as multi-racial and not African.
You appear to be the one obsessed with race, actually. I made an observation that any reasonable person in your position would at worst have responded to by shrugging, because you "don't care" and obviously have never researched the topic, but instead you're resorting to lies and childish tantrums for a week and a half because it's that important to you.
I've addressed the rest of this nonsense above, in response to the Nazi who basically said the same thing you've said here. But what's really interesting is you've added another layer on top, which is basically that in this scenario where Africans are, in your opinion, not intelligent enough to resist colonisation, the fact that this has led to centuries of extreme exploitation of the continent and extraction of all its resources is apparently justified. That's a very interesting opinion, no matter how incorrect your presumptions leading up to it may be.