Chances are if you ever bought Resident Evil 5 or Borderlands 2, you did. If you thought that killing black people in Africa and using "oh but they're just zombies" is a valid excuse or a white girl using ghetto talk is perfectly fine by your standards (because we all know how that type of communication is reserved for African Americans and no one else)then i would strongly advise you to check your privilege. Someone even made a handy Android app just for that

The latest example in this despicable trend is now Stanley Parable. Look at this ingame picture and tell me that there is nothing wrong with it. Now i imagine you're all probably brimming with rage so let me just explain you why you should be mad and scream for demanding of social justice in the first place. You see, there is nothing wrong that a grown man is setting a kid on fire, the problem here is his skin color (and i'm pretty sure the situation and public outrage would be the same if the roles were reversed, r-right?)
I bet you're all probably asking yourself what can i do at this point except nagging on the internet while trying to make a controversy out of nothing but! - that's where you would be wrong. With enough commitment and a lot of free time there is a chance that DICE might just hire you to work on a Mirror's Edge sequel with insightful unbiased advices or get a job in many of the Gawker media affiliates - the possibilities are almost endless.
So whenever you see a Black, Asian or Australian character in a videogame you should ask yourself why is he/she there in the first place if they don't have a leading role in providing a social commentary, we don't want you to play games just to have fun, that would be crazy!. Next time you see a videogame that you might like, dont just blindly buy it. Do some research, be sure to overanalyze everything and if that process you tend to separate a fiction from the reality, who cares? It's part of the package

tl;dr
If you buy Stanley Parable before they patch it, you are most likely racist

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Tiny Tina isn't racist. Saying only one race is allowed to speak a certain way is racist.

but yeah that Stanley Parable thing is on a completely different level there.

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If a video game character comes at me with a weapon or tries to hit/bite me, guess what... I'll kill the mofo whatever race he/she is.

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Never by accident, always by choice.

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wow, such racism. if any character in the game is not white its automatically racist if they're bad or you do something bad to them

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I still can't believe people called racism when a game settled in AFRICA featured black people. And about that photo you posted...are people really that stupid? The bad thing in the photo is that someone is setting a child on fire, it absolutely does NOT matter if it's black, white or freaking purple. Racism starts in your own head you know. It's the hatecrime-shit all over again. I better don't even get started on the whole topic and stop right here.

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Troll.

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All this racist bullshit lately, get the fuck over yourselves. You're just making it all a bigger problem than it already is.

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I hope that you're joking :o

Bad taste? yes (If you're a old and weak person).
Racism? no, open your eyes!

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Well, I never had Jacob Taylor in my squad in Mass Effect 2. Does that count?

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Yeah, this is great. Nobody has problem with promoting smoking among kids. Nobody has problem with burning kids. Only problem - kid is black.

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I think OP is not being serious here. Why so much hate in the comments?

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Yeah, it's so racist to kill black ppl in Africa! There should be Asians for sure...

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XD

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The amount of sarcasm is glorious.

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couldn't get past first paragraph. OP is either a marxist freak or epic troll. Right away you start with RE5 as an example meanwhile N'Gai Croal the blogger who first noticed that fact has said it was blown out of proportion and not ill intented like people like you would make it out to be. He discussed this a lot publicly with Shawn Elliot and reasoned it out, it never took away from the game for them as critics or fans.

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"couldn't get past first paragraph" then you should have stayed quiet.

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This is for you.

Nice job.

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No, I have never supported racism in videogames by accident.

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It was hilarious how racist was Call Of Juarez The Cartel. it even had achievement to kill as many black as possible in specific time lapse.

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Only against you.

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tl;dr
Never by accident, always on purpose.

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As a white straight male I am offended. :P

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I guess i'm a racist, oh well.

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wow, if ur reading this, stop, u think u know xarabas? u think he actually cares about racism in video games?

please look at this screenshot http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=127800566 , sry i dnt know how to hyperweblink it, but he clearly is a hypocrit as he is racist in video games just as much as borderlands 2 or RE5 is

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yeah, setting fire to black children is racist: burn all white kids, now that's right! >_>

ps: some people should really get a real life..
pps: f**k censorship..

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I support ban russians and south americans from US Dota2 Servers, they can't speak english and ruin every game, JUST THAT

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Closed 10 years ago by xarabas.