No they weren’t “diversity characters”, none of their stories make sense if they were white.
Don’t let narrative congruence get in the way of open racism
So, what’s the measurement?
How are we to determine whether they were added for diversity’s sake rather than any other reason?
Does every non white person in gaming need to be justified? What does that justification look like?
Does every non white person in gaming need to be justified? What does that justification look like?
According to CHUDs, yes, because any non-white people existing is an affront to Gaming, and the justification is whether the game came out before the CHUD hit adulthood and the game is old enough to be nostalgic or not. So characters like Barret from FF7, fine, because he’s not “woke”, but a character from a modern game? You’d better believe they’re woke DEI commie propaganda!
hope that helps!
I wonder about more ancient chuds 🤔
I’m old enough to remember in the 90’s complaining about affirmative action, political correctness, and token minorities.
They’re getting nostalgic for pong or something.
Ah, no woke DEI bullshit, just two white and PERFECTLY STRAIGHT paddles hitting a nice WHITE ball back and forth. No politics, no political correctness, no cellphones, just two guys living in the moment.
Common core style rubric to determine if a character’s skin tone is woke or not
So this was become an increasingly common phenomenon where people complain online about POC’s being in video games.
This stems from the fact that these people can’t get away with saying this shit in the real world without getting their teeth kicked in. The only role these people would accept for minorities would be as literal fucking slaves or as violent gang members: either in video games or real life.
I remember reading somewhere that most or at least a lot of actual cowboys in the west were black, is that true?
Real cowboys have big black and white spots, anything else is just a rancher.
(I’ve heard the same thing you did, but I don’t have an actual source or anything, so have a cow joke.)
Boy cows are called bulls, silly.
I think the detail is a majority were not white, many being black, First Nations or Mexican. Though White Cowboys were possibly a plurality in places
But most cowboy/outlaw stuff is just made up/exaggerated from books and films. Like a shopkeeper was more likely to have a revolver than a cowboy, because you want a rifle or shotgun when in the middle of nowhere.
black or latino, i’d expect. surely there were escaped slaves and also, as a free black man, maybe you’d feel more at home out west than among the densely packed crackers
I also read that so I think yes with the caveat that the conception of “cowboy” as some sort of gun-slinging mercenary or hero is a romanticized notion as part of revisionist history pushed by for example Hollywood. I’m sure there were gun-slinging black cowboys and Mexican ones as well. But most of them weren’t getting into Magnificent Seven or John Wayne or Randolph Scott stuff. They were just herding cattle and doing other farm stuff and fending off the occasional problem but not riding rough to genocide Indians or spending their time taking down outlaws or avenge their kin in a blood feud.
Wdym there have never been non-white people in the americas, especially not before 1776
nonwhite people weren’t invented until
new bit idea: Crackub, the white woman who created all dark-skinned people. Everything has to be retconned as originally white at some point, or you’re doing honkey genocide
she did it because her husband always blew her off to play call of duty sourkraut or something
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Kind of surprised they didn’t do Javier, but I guess he was in RDR1, so he is exempt.
SMH that they didn’t change Sean to not be Irish.
There’s a yakub post here somewhere … ah well, I’ve already said too much, the mods are mean mugging me from the corner
Please add a CW for ableist slur.
“Woke” bigotry is flour adulterated with cyanide.
Why is it clear?
Because they exist?
before 1968 people of different races didn’t hang out. Woke didn’t exist then because it was illegal
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