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originally posted by: Dark Ghost
a reply to: Kali74
What about it?
Does a white person have to control a white character in a game to feel immersed? The most immerse games I have played were fantasy ones where my character was not even human...
originally posted by: Kali74
What about devs who want their protagonist to be a black female?
originally posted by: TrueBrit
Well, that was a very telling post.
The fact that you think the errors of the past are worth putting in sarcastic little quote marks, rather than being a matter of serious cogitation and meditation, show that you lack two very important things. One is a sense of honour connected to the actions of your ancestors, and another is an understanding that the errors of our ancestors are not simply matters of a bygone era, but that the things which drive migration are still being bloated by foreign interventionist strategy in this day and age.
But that is hardly the point.
The point is that in Britain, before Britain was even a unified nation of nations as it is today, we had visitors and migrants from all over the world come here to live. Vikings, Romans, persons from the Far East and Africa. Many of those who came from the Far East and Africa were wise persons, traveling to expand their knowledge for its own sake, and became advisors to nobles and the like of the time. They were generally well liked, because prejudice and the idea of a lack of personhood for anyone not white and native to the isle was a foreign concept to the proto-Britons living at the time.
It was only much later, by a great many hundreds of years that the slave traders propagandised so successfully, that people previously considered as wise and human as anyone else, were dehumanised to the point where the general population did not complain when those they had considered friends were shipped off as nothing but working animals to be used and abused at the whims of slave owners.
Propagandist twaddle made victims of entire demographics, just as it STILL does today. This is evidenced by the fact that there are those even now who refuse to accept the fact that every major terrorist organisation since the proxy war with Russia, fought in Afghanistan, has been funded, equipped, and supported by British, American, and European financial and political groups, as much as it has been funded by anything else. There are still those who refuse to accept, though it is a fact, not a suspicion, that the CIA sponsored Osama Bin Ladens mob, and continued to support separatist groups in the Middle East, even when it became obvious that their efforts were fueling more terror than they were solving, right up until the present day, where IS recieve material aid from western governments by the backdoor. In the same way the US intelligence infrastructure has its fingers in the illegal drug trade in South America, and in international arms smuggling, not to eliminate it, but to control and profit from it.
This is reality. Replace it with whatever lie you like, but the piper needs paying no matter what lies you tell yourself in the meantime.
originally posted by: Kali74
I'm glad you agree. So the point of your OP is what?
After you are done laughing your head off at me for this suggestion, can you not now see how hypocritical the constant push for diversity in predominately white countries/industries happens to be, when diversity is not expected or forced on any other group?
And it all stems from one fallacious argument: white people did bad things in the past, therefore white people living today should suffer the consequences.
originally posted by: Kali74
Or it stems from the fact that a more diverse market is emerging and people said hey why isn't there such and such... and dollar signs flashed in eyes.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
This is nothing to do with guilt. This is about being prepared to love and relate to your fellow human beings, no matter who they are, where they are from, what they look like, what gender they may be. This is about embracing people.
Your ancestors likely failed in that at some point. You can either learn from their error, or repeat it. We all get the same choices in that regard.