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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You are the kind of person that won't let racism die. Instead of thinking of them as people, you think of them as "blacks", "asians", and so on. You are in fact the one who is racist by visually and mentally segregating that type of PERSON. Like all these stupid events like Trayvon and the like. He was some stupid kid who attacked someone, got killed in self defense, but since he was black there was a national uproar. Oh my f***ing god, just leave it to rest already. People are just that, PEOPLE. Leave it alone.

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He was being satirical, genius.

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I'd hate to say this, but even if we were all colorblind, racism will continue to exist until everyone in the world speaks fluent Imperial English.

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At which point everyone will call people that do not know Latin inferior for using a convoluted language as their universal translation mechanism.

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Actually the most spoken language is mandarin, and its spreading fast. Forget about english.

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I don't see people on steam, steamgifts, steamtrades, tf2outpost, youtube, etc. speak mandarian, they always speak English.

swag

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resident evil 5
You're right! How dare they use a caste other than caucasian 20-40 year old males! We need to protest this immediately!

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I don't recall supporting racism by accident, but I've supported it explicitly quite a few times.

For example, just yesterday I was playing King of Dragon Pass, and my clan encountered another clan of strange anthropomorphic ducks. Clan leadership was pretty much unanimous that we ought to raid them and take their land, because they were clearly subhuman. In this game, you do not want to go against the will of the clan just because their sensibilities don't match yours, so raid them we did. Of course it turns out the ducks were actually pretty good at defending themselves, but that's another chapter.

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From now on reading tiny black letters on a vast white background shall constitute my superior right as a white person to be literate.
And for obvious reasons I'll stay away from Limbo.

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you should watch the South Park's Episode "Cartman Silly Hate crimes":

Judge: I am making an example of you to send a message out to people everywhere: that if you want to hurt another human being, you'd better make damn sure they're the same color as you are.

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Ever wanna make love to a thread?

Cause I do.

Oh yeah Far Cry 3 is mad racist! SO RACIST, BURN IT ALIVE!

Also this!

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I agree with you OP, it's so retarded that if you have only white males in your game, you are a racist and a sexist. If you put in a female and she suffers just like the male protagonist (would), you are sexist. If you put in a black person and he gets hurt like the white protagonist would, you are racist.

Not choosing to have another group is racist/sexist, having it is even more racist/sexist.

Just like those femanons say they want to be treated with respect and then automatically assume they should have more rights than men.

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Have you ever read silly forums about silly things?

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i just did...

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I'm offended that people are offended by the image! I saw a kid being lit up not a black kid being lit up!
I suppose it's something to whine on about though!!!

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I have a friend who is black in real life. In games he is white (RE5) and he also kills black people (african). i guess even black people can be racist towards their own race!

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I don't know if the replies to this make me want to laugh or cry.

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definately LAUGH

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Big fucking deal I hate everyone equally so I could care less. And I fucking hate "social justice warriors". Personally I'd like to set all of them on fire. Seriously, unless you're actually one of the races being "exploited" or "demeaned", then you're cry of justice is pretty fucking worthless. They can cry for themselves, they don't need the nice white brother to hold their hand and cry for them.

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I think every one have some maturity to pass over it. Even if is there some racist joke, it's just like a joke about stereotypes.

I would be angry if it were a game for kids(including CoD cuz most players are kids :P)

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There's nothing wrong with it.

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I looked at the picture and the first thought that came to my mind was that the there is a moral statement: "giving a cigarette to a child is like burning him alive". I wouldn't even look for skin color differences untill you pointed it out.
For me, I always think that people who actually look at things as if they were racist ARE racist themselves! So shut about it and play the game as is.

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Where you see a white man setting a black kid on fire, I see a grown-up offering a cigarette to a minor, which is very wrong.

Pointing out the skin color is the first step to racism, there are just 2 people on the image - so why even bother to make a difference in their color, when the most obvious difference is their age.

For me the image would be the "same amount of fun" (which is not much in this case) if both where white/black.

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Wow, that logic is impenetrable. (Not). So I'm a hardcore racist, it seems!

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This thread is cancer.

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This is brilliant.

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I love the smell of troll in the morning...

Ok, now I can go back to killing zombies, they are white, I can :p

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I feel much more comfortable supporting misogyny in video games.

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I have a black friend, I'm not racist.

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