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» Water Pulse: white people in denial about blatant racism on online games
At the beginning of the current WoW expansion, monkeys were added to the classes of animals the Hunter class could tame and use for combat pets. I am not exaggerating when I say that I was putting in report tickets near daily, I saw so many Hunters running around with…
okay, i have a slight bit of contention with this.
you NEED to remove your thoughts about the particular game or setting from the picture.
Racism runs rampant on the internet. It doesn’t matter what game, what function, what area. You’ll find racism in even neopets and Habbo hotel if you keep an eye out.
it’s not that the internet promotes, allows, or has any tie to racism. People are racist as fuck. that’s the bottom line. Whether it’s a terrible sense of humor or meant sincerely racism is everywhere, video games are just another media that it comes out and is established.
Please, if you’re going to start a dialogue about racism in video games talk about what the games themselves have any control over. Talk about how the orcs and their removal from slavery under the humans represents slavery and it’s unfair and wrong status, not how some 14 year old kid in arizona is a racist fuck,
i could tell you that any day.
Yes, racism is everywhere. But, the medium is always important too. To me, I think this is also a discussion about racism among players of the game, not written into the game itself. Sure, have discussions on racism in missions, quests, NPC names and whatnot, but the players are also important.
It’s totally plausible to look at how people who play MMOs might be racist in that setting. A lot of people like studying MMOs to see how people interact and present in online environments. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you are saying?
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Yes, racism is everywhere. But, the medium is always important too. To me, I think this is also a discussion about...
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okay, i have a slight bit...contention with this. you NEED to remove your thoughts...
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Reblogged for the commentary. And ye gods, have I had those conversations with so many of those of my acquaintances...
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I’m sorry if I made it sound like I was singling out WoW. I wasn’t. It’s a quality game, but as the most popular MMO it...
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Yyyyep. It’s gross. And that’s not even getting into the Pygmies.
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