The Hutchinson Report: Resident Evil Racism
*The well-worn script reads like this. A protest group blasts a video game manufacturer, its designers, actors, and writers for dumping a game on the market loaded with racially insulting and demeaning stereotypes.
The video game team yelps that the game is pure entertainment, has some blacks or Latinos in on the design and production, and gets high marks from the industry.
That script is trotted out so often that it can be recited while counting sleep.
So it was no surprise that Jun Takeuchi yanked out that script to defend his video game brainchild Resident Evil 5 from the charge that it's racist.
But what else could one call it? It features a white male (modern day Bawana) mowing down a pack of poor, primitive disease challenged Africans.
The video game team yelps that the game is pure entertainment, has some blacks or Latinos in on the design and production, and gets high marks from the industry.
That script is trotted out so often that it can be recited while counting sleep.
So it was no surprise that Jun Takeuchi yanked out that script to defend his video game brainchild Resident Evil 5 from the charge that it's racist.
But what else could one call it? It features a white male (modern day Bawana) mowing down a pack of poor, primitive disease challenged Africans.
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