22nd February 2009, 10:10 AM
It's interesting that the biggotry everywhere else is not real but when it hits close to home, suddenly it's the biggest discrimination in the world today. Question: Do you consider the Boomers in Left 4 Dead to be just another symptom of fat aggression, or do you interpret it the same way you interpret RE4? Question: Why can't all races realize they are all equally inferior to robots?
Again, this isn't an issue as to the motives of the character. Within the confines of RE4, the character Chris is an upstanding guy who's killing them only because they are zombies, and he hasn't got any racist motivations for that. It's an issue of interpretation. You might see that as something worthy of condemning people at large, all I'm saying is that it's there. It might not even be an issue if there wasn't that history to deal with. Imagine if you will a zombie movie set in a fat camp where a skinny guy was shooting up all the zombified fatties, and you get close to the thing.
I've never read anything by Lovecraft to justify the notion that he was ironically poking fun at racism in his books, and to read them it seems more than apparent that he's genuinely racist when he talks about a "repulsively large negroid" in Herbert West, Reanimator. He was no Mark Twain. Other letters seem to justify it, and it was also well known he would make casual remarks against jewish people while walking with his wife, who herself was jewish and she would point that out to him.
Sometimes "reading deeper" is code for "reinterpret it until it fits with what you want to think".
Again, this isn't an issue as to the motives of the character. Within the confines of RE4, the character Chris is an upstanding guy who's killing them only because they are zombies, and he hasn't got any racist motivations for that. It's an issue of interpretation. You might see that as something worthy of condemning people at large, all I'm saying is that it's there. It might not even be an issue if there wasn't that history to deal with. Imagine if you will a zombie movie set in a fat camp where a skinny guy was shooting up all the zombified fatties, and you get close to the thing.
I've never read anything by Lovecraft to justify the notion that he was ironically poking fun at racism in his books, and to read them it seems more than apparent that he's genuinely racist when he talks about a "repulsively large negroid" in Herbert West, Reanimator. He was no Mark Twain. Other letters seem to justify it, and it was also well known he would make casual remarks against jewish people while walking with his wife, who herself was jewish and she would point that out to him.
Sometimes "reading deeper" is code for "reinterpret it until it fits with what you want to think".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)