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- From: petitc@nuge104.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
- Subject: Re: Racism in SF2?
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
- References: <1992Nov15.235400.19644@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov16.133216.5884@oz.plymouth.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:36:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.133216.5884@oz.plymouth.edu>, j_herlih@oz.plymouth.edu (Axl) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov15.235400.19644@midway.uchicago.edu>
- |> alee@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- |> >Hmmm, could there be perhaps a bit of racism in SF2? On the CE version,
- |> >when it goes the demo version, it will show a blond white guy facing
- |> >a black guy (who can only be seen by his back). The blond guy then
- |> >punches out the black guy, and then "Street Fighter II" appears on the
- |> >screen... Could this be a bit of racism?
- |>
- |> The last thing we need to see in a video game is 'political
- |> correctness.' geez, i play SFII to get away from all that shit. The
- |> chars are stereotypes (albeit majorly exaggerated ones) of where
- |> they're from. The blond hair/blue eye American, the big dumb Russian,
- |> the Spanish femme, the mystical Indian, etc...
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- Yeah. This is SUCH bulls**t! I mean, the problem is the THOUGHTS
- underlying the 'nasty bad words' that PCness tries to get rid of, but PC only
- gets rid of some of the 'bad words' NOT the thoughts that these words come from.
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- And as for SF2, I really COULDN'T CARE LESS about racism present in it or
- not. I mean, really, we all play it to get out frustrations with people, and
- just for fun, so why bother worrying if racism is present or not? It's present
- in the world, stupid as it is, so I don't think a kid's gonna learn about racism
- and join the KKK because SF2 has a hint of racism in it.
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- Lighten up---hold a big helium balloon. :&)
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