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Red Dead Redemption 2 is Reeeeeeeeacist
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:02 pm
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It’s nearly the end of 2018, and I have to write an article about blackface and redface in Red Dead Redemption 2.
That sucks.
It sucks, because it means no one bothered to interrogate the casting. It sucks, because I know the pushback I’ll get for being the one to call out readily apparent racism in a game that opened to $725 million in sales. It sucks, because we’re still having to have conversations about why the perpetuation of racist stereotypes and the dehumanization of people of color is bad. It sucks, because didn’t we just do this with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy?
And it sucks, because I hoped maybe we could do better than Charles, and as a Native woman who got her start pleading with games journalists and developers to do better, I wouldn’t need to keep writing these articles.
Charles Smith has a Black father and a Native mother. He doesn’t know the name of his tribe, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was taken by soldiers. Charles is grateful to find a group of white outlaws to accept him. He uses every part of the buffalo. Charles sucks. He’s another racist Rockstar caricature, and honestly that should be enough. But there’s another issue with Charles.
The actor who portrays him is neither Black nor Indigenous.
It’s nearly the end of 2018, and I have to write an article about blackface and redface in Red Dead Redemption 2.
That sucks.
It sucks, because it means no one bothered to interrogate the casting. It sucks, because I know the pushback I’ll get for being the one to call out readily apparent racism in a game that opened to $725 million in sales. It sucks, because we’re still having to have conversations about why the perpetuation of racist stereotypes and the dehumanization of people of color is bad. It sucks, because didn’t we just do this with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy?
And it sucks, because I hoped maybe we could do better than Charles, and as a Native woman who got her start pleading with games journalists and developers to do better, I wouldn’t need to keep writing these articles.
Charles Smith has a Black father and a Native mother. He doesn’t know the name of his tribe, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was taken by soldiers. Charles is grateful to find a group of white outlaws to accept him. He uses every part of the buffalo. Charles sucks. He’s another racist Rockstar caricature, and honestly that should be enough. But there’s another issue with Charles.
The actor who portrays him is neither Black nor Indigenous.
This post was edited on 11/30/18 at 6:03 pm
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Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:05 pm to WoWyHi
frick native women like this. She’s a coconut.
The comment “in what is currently called America” is LOL worthy.
The comment “in what is currently called America” is LOL worthy.
This post was edited on 11/30/18 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:05 pm to WoWyHi
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:06 pm to WoWyHi
I have to think that Rockstar is one of the only game studios totally immune to consequences stemming from non-political correctness.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:08 pm to shutterspeed
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a bad arse game.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:14 pm to shutterspeed
Rockstar has had to deal with controversy since Grand Theft Auto became a household product for gamers.
They have reached the horizon. The truth is game developers should ignore more journalists. They should LISTEN TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
They have reached the horizon. The truth is game developers should ignore more journalists. They should LISTEN TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:14 pm to WoWyHi
Is there anything that is fun that Leftists don’t want to see banned? I mean really, I expect any day now that these assholes will call all snow skiiers racist since you don’t see a lot of black people on the slopes. These people are a bunch of tyrannical counts, and the only appropriate response is the middle finger. 95% of the country finds this completely obnoxious, but judging from the news, you’d think it was 60% of the general population.
This post was edited on 11/30/18 at 6:18 pm
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:17 pm to OMLandshark
There are a lot of white males that get beaten, tortured, killed and made to look like fools in the game.
The liberals should be happy
The liberals should be happy
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:19 pm to WoWyHi
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Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:20 pm to WoWyHi
Is this redskin appropriating my cultures electricity?
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:21 pm to volod
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Rockstar has had to deal with controversy since Grand Theft Auto became a household product for gamers
This. If black people and Indians think they’re oppressed they should try being gamers
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:25 pm to WoWyHi
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and as a Native woman who got her start pleading with games journalists and developers to do better
Start of what?
I can see her barging into Rockstar HQ demanding to speak with the CEO and yelling at them that that need to do better
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:34 pm to upgrayedd
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Start of what?
She’s talking about that she was such an insufferable twat that she was one of the obnoxious losers of Gamergate. Games don’t give in because they really, really know what their actual customers want. This bitch hasn’t played games. She just saw Laura Croft and Bayonetta and got pissed the frick off because she’s a joyless count.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:44 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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frick native women like this.
Gonna go ahead and kick this hate train up a notch and say that it’s not a woman (trigger warning).
It’s a trans.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:44 pm to OMLandshark
It's almost as if people play video games as an escape from the real world, doing shite they would never do in real life. Oh my god!
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:51 pm to WoWyHi
I really wish companies would just stand up to this nonsense by saying "We don't care"
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:53 pm to upgrayedd
Rockstar would probably be the only one that would, but even they are getting a bit soft. You can't name your horse Sarah Jessica Parker.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:57 pm to Volvagia
Of course it is. It’s tribe doesn’t even recognize it. If it even has a blood quantum level high enough for application. The left desperately wants the native population to buy into their radicalization. It’s not happening.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:58 pm to upgrayedd
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Posted on 11/30/18 at 6:59 pm to WoWyHi
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