No they weren’t “diversity characters”, none of their stories make sense if they were white.
Don’t let narrative congruence get in the way of open racism
So, what’s the measurement?
How are we to determine whether they were added for diversity’s sake rather than any other reason?
Does every non white person in gaming need to be justified? What does that justification look like?
Does every non white person in gaming need to be justified? What does that justification look like?
According to CHUDs, yes, because any non-white people existing is an affront to Gaming, and the justification is whether the game came out before the CHUD hit adulthood and the game is old enough to be nostalgic or not. So characters like Barret from FF7, fine, because he’s not “woke”, but a character from a modern game? You’d better believe they’re woke DEI commie propaganda!
hope that helps!
I wonder about more ancient chuds 🤔
I’m old enough to remember in the 90’s complaining about affirmative action, political correctness, and token minorities.
They’re getting nostalgic for pong or something.
Ah, no woke DEI bullshit, just two white and PERFECTLY STRAIGHT paddles hitting a nice WHITE ball back and forth. No politics, no political correctness, no cellphones, just two guys living in the moment.
Wdym there have never been non-white people in the americas, especially not before 1776
I remember reading somewhere that most or at least a lot of actual cowboys in the west were black, is that true?
I also read that so I think yes with the caveat that the conception of “cowboy” as some sort of gun-slinging mercenary or hero is a romanticized notion as part of revisionist history pushed by for example Hollywood. I’m sure there were gun-slinging black cowboys and Mexican ones as well. But most of them weren’t getting into Magnificent Seven or John Wayne or Randolph Scott stuff. They were just herding cattle and doing other farm stuff and fending off the occasional problem but not riding rough to genocide Indians or spending their time taking down outlaws or avenge their kin in a blood feud.
I think the detail is a majority were not white, many being black, First Nations or Mexican. Though White Cowboys were possibly a plurality in places
But most cowboy/outlaw stuff is just made up/exaggerated from books and films. Like a shopkeeper was more likely to have a revolver than a cowboy, because you want a rifle or shotgun when in the middle of nowhere.
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