RE5, racist?

[A Black Falcon]

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.

That is precisely what I was thinking after reading that post of his... the idea that somehow racism against black people isn't real but discrimination against fat people is is just stupid. Racism against black people is unquestionably worse and goes back far longer... all kinds of discrimination are real, not just the kind that personally affects someone.

Of course there is persecution of fat people, more so against people who are very overweight (given that a third of the American population is overweight and another third obese...), but comparing it to anti-black racism... absolutely not.

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.

Without the history it definitely wouldn't be the same, but that history matters greatly... you can't look at it without that in mind. The same would apply to anti-semitism, sexism, etc. The historical context is extremely important, as that defines how people will see the imagery.