Capcom changing Dead Rising Remaster. Censorship of key elements. Latest in a LONG line of decisions that are Anti-Art Anti consumer and anti business.
I wish to work with CAPCOM to fix what has been broken for a long time.
Of course this destructive affair is praised as something “good” when it is not. People downplay the bad of censorship because of social proof and pressure.
The game was meant to mock the media and its exploitation. Taking this out takes away from the over all message of the game.
If key elements of a game. have to be taken out of a remake, then why remake the game at all?
We’re taking out such elements that are seen as “bad” or “sexist” but not cleaning up the abuse in the industry. Such that anything remotely sexual in a certain way is bad but other such things are fine.
But at the end of the day IT’S A JUDGMENT VALUE.
It’s disgust by performance to pretend to be “for women”. And i’m not sure a lot of people really think such censorship is any good.
Such things don’t help women.
There’s been no shortage of spirious and fatious and out right dishonest claims about media and games from people having been found out as con artists. But such inaccurate claims have legs and have become a mass myth simply because it has created an ever present devil and attracted the selfishly-righteous or the ignorant.
Just like the Satanic Panic before.
i can understand if it was to prevent discomfort but it jeopardizes the message that the original had and makes something that was inoffensive as offensive.
To claim offense on behalf of others and censor is to take away the agency of one self or others to ever think or feel differently about something. I do not think that is productive or good. I think that insults the intelligence of people, limits the minds of the audience and the art.
Update. Apparently there’s even more censorship if the above report is anything to go on. I hope this isn’t the case but with the zeitgiest how it is and previous censorship by Capcom and other studios, i’m inclined to believe a key mechanic has been removed.
Now, think what you will of this person but he’s worth listening to even if you disagree. In fact, if you disagree you should listen to them MORE.
It’s a voice for the common person. It cuts through all the advertising, the social media consulting, the Public Relations people and the other people that think gaming is just consumption for consumption’s sake.
But people will still support the new release because of spirious claims of sexism and racism against the original. And if you bring up the fact and say the empress is naked then you’re a problem person that is litterally the worst.
But that’s the internet, that’s life. People will even go against what they personally believe to be true in order to parrot something that they think other people believe or to fit in or “not cause trouble”.
It’s bad for art, it’s bad for anything. It just doesn’t make sense because if they’re trying to sell the old game, appeal to old fans and try to bring back nostalgia… they’ll mess with it.
“times change” people will say. That may be but why do they change? For what reason? Do we just not question ourselves?
Why is this change any good? I ask these questions. the Socratic method is not well received on twitter or online spaces. simply because questioning what people know or believe sets them on the defensive. The brain cannot differentiate between a hard hitting question and a phsycial attack. The ego has one job, to preserve itself at all costs.
The removal of such content will not, in any meaningful way help address inequality or inequity. So why does it happen?
Does it happen because we’ve been swept up by rhetoric? I believe so. I can greatly
Update:
yet to be proven but with restrictions and this being in line with their other (unfortunate) decisions. I would not be surprised.
and of course the response to that was
“That’s pretty sad that you’re not going to buy a game over an NPC that shows less skin.”
This is just a baseless, anti intellectual insult… but it works very well in silencing others.
EVERY TIME it’s diminishing, dismissal and not liking any sort of something from the… original It’s a game that was creative. to comment on explotative practices of America, China. and “toxic masculinity”.
Some how taking a picture of erotica…. is bad?
it’s a joke. it’s to mock the media. it’s also… fun.
“the modern audience has gaslit themselves to think blood and gore are fine and rick and morty potty humor is ok (it is fine) but now we have… anything remotely dealing with certain topics then it must be removed.
And even normal people on twitter are not having it.
let’s hope it’s not true. but I fear it is.
I’m not sure about the modern audience maybe it is not. But it’s weird that even the “normal” people that love games and love art are not having it.
There’s a lot of people that dismiss all concerns. I don’t know. Twitter isn’t exactly a good metric of what is going on. And why is it we’re infering people of old or in 90s or 2000s humor are bad?
Why is it we have muder and sexuality but only in some ways and not others?
Who’s in charge here? and why pay more for this “remake” when it is censored? and there’s already cheaper version?
But people do buy the latest technology and the latest tech even when it has less features. It could be the case that people do just want instant gratification.
And here we are.
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I am not alt right, I do not support nazis and never will, the only nationalism i remotely like is civic and i abhor racism and sexism. That’s kind of why I write.
This is why i write this open letter.
i know it’s disjointed, well that will make it fun to read.
it’s disjointed, possibly insane. but please. give me a good chance. Hell, E-mail me at Petradisruption@aol.com
But i think it’s worth asking the “dumb” questions.
Why was this changed? It was fine in 2017 when they released the Remaster.
Someone tell me why? This is a genuine question. I know of horrible Racism in the past and Sinophobia from the 19th century. But… i’m not sure this is it. Are people offended because he’s ugly?
what harm is stopped? what discomfort is stopped?
Someone not liking someone who’s “too ugly” or what? I mean I look like the original.
Other “fatphobic” stuff is in there and that’s no problem.
But i think it can be summed up in tow pictures.
AS for the rest.
If one calls this racist, At what point does this suggest that races are inferior. It may be an impolite social commentary on meat production and the despoiling of other countries… now could it have been done better and the like? Well, maybe but who decides what is “better”?
In fact, i think the removal of such things is arguably contributing to MORE racism. Let’s say it is racist. it’s sure as hell unflattering and uses an individual instead of represent a stereotype… but the game is full of that and pretty unfair ones… so why was this one in particular singled out?
As much as i understand
Now if the excuse is that such depictions are impolite and make one feel squeamish and gross. well we take people’s heads off in the game. But at least that answer is FAR better than the claim that such depictions magically prime people to be racist or bigoted.
Capcom (you) has, sadly, taken the advice of such really vocal people that I do not think represent any community or even any part of the population exept a small part of it.
But size doesn’t matter. After all, even with the thousands of people that tried to tell you on twitter how such censorship of the past and present is wrong… we COULD be wrong.
https://youtu.be/Gq-VnEYX3Dg?si=_-i-SfVXdL3DjGW9
I could be just one individual with a very minority opinion but I hope i can make the case.
Ashley Marie Preston, The coordinator of the Netflix walk out and Stand in Solidarity protest, the one that was against Dave Chapelle and what some perceived as transphobic humor.
She has a history of being really bigoted toward those of Asian decent.
https://youtu.be/ZnciyhVCpqk
i mean really bad. to the point I can’t even print.
She claimed that they wouldn’t stand for bigotry and transphobia. Good ideas but Chapelle was threatened with violence. And their actions do not fit any such idea of “these people have less equity”. or the very flowery smoke and mirrors she gave as a performance.
Dave Chapelle’s friend, Daphnie Dorman, who was trans. said the following.
She was harassed to death by such activists.
What we have above may seem like sensitivity to Those of Asian origin. But you’re the same company that changed the flag of Hong Kong in their Remaster of street fighter.
i understand the want for sensitivity. I understand that Korea would not appreciate any such imperialist symbols when they were occupied and oppressed HARD by Japan. … But the world is not Korea. And it was censored everywhere.
The censoring and alteration of the hong kong flag just suggest outright Chinese Government imperialism. Possibly because of ESG or DEI investing that works a lot with China
That questions the whole sensitivity angle. Even then. i get it. i get that some people would call the original design offensive or racist or whatever… But why? And why is it we have some offensive stereotypes that are more allowed than others?
Why was something that was intact in 2017 suddenly wrong today? Either it was wrong this whole time or it isn’t wrong and that people and moral consensus is distorting us… arguably making us more racist.
Social engeneering and “social proof” means if everyone else is doing it I have to do it to fit in.
Let’s even take a look at the double standards.
There’s fatphobia. Cops are a protected class and they should be OPENLY mocked. No matter where society draws the line, it’s arbitrary. I’m a minority and i think that taking out gay stereotypes in games and calling it respectful is PATRONZING.
It’s telling us that we’re too weak to have free speech, after all, even the most disgusting of expression (so long as its not obscene of direct threats, slander, libel, ) are protected. And the right of free speech and expression are meaningless if one is deprived the right to hear it.
i could go on and on about Christopher hitchens’ speech and very well made an unassailable case to protect even the WORST of speech… but the stuff censored here is no where that kind of odious.
So it baffles me that ALL OF THIS is censored in the first place. We used to censor drugs, we don’t do that any more in the USA. We used to censor satanic symbols because of a moral panic. We don’t do that any more. We used to censor lgbt issues and characters, THANK GOODNESS we don't do that any more…. oh wait we do if they’re “offensive” when back in the day they weren’t and were the slim bits of representation we (well I) had even if it wasn’t flattering. and if someone has a criticism they’re lumped in with a bunch of other people… nuance goes to die.
Now we seem to be in the grips of yet another moral panic.
Let’s also take a look at the people in favor of censorship and such things. Orcs were never racist or ever were charachatures. they’re not even human but those that accuse orcs of racism PROJECT.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202004/no-orcs-arent-racist
cultural critics keep arguing about the wrong things.
So hard that we *now* have orcs that are mexican stereotypes in the new edition.
Wizards of the Coast made changes that easily make the orcs more racist.
and the kinds of people that endorsed it.
They’re anti sematic. They’re racist. as seen above.
They even give death threats.
but i think the kicker is that if these changes to numbers and art and lore of a fictional game is to make PoC more comfortable… because of the resemblance as implied by the one making the claim… ONE SHOULD REALLY RE THINK THAT POSTION.
And this..
Some of their ideas unassailable but only because those ideas are inline with a tolerant liberal society that would oppose censorship, oppose compelled speech and oppose bigotry. all well and good. … but there’s a lot of ideas that are not that.
They will call others Nazis, bigots and all the like… like myself. i some how must be bigoted against myself.
They are coordinated but only a very small group of mostly very very white people trying to play protector for me and other minorities and women… when we didn’t ask. and give me and others death threats and harassment when we don’t go along with their politically correct affair.
but Political correctness, when brought up in conversation is NEVER about where it goes right. It’s always about it’s over reach. It’s about how it is a more insidious form of totalitarianism.
That’s not a right wing opinion. That’s Zizek talking about that. I can give a link to his talk about that. It’s really fun it’s really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNbWGaaxWM
And people respond negatively to to censorship.
We have the Dr. Seuss case. The space jam 2 censorship. we have HBO max with gone with the wind. Even Splash mountain. Each one met with grand psychological reactance.
As offensive as these epsidoes are, we’re harming consumer’s right to access and judge for themselves and find out WHY such things are wrong.
I get that one’s boss should be respectful, I MORE than understand that people should not be discriminated against. But how is policing and changing fiction going to address the horrible inequalities in society?
It doesn’t help.
Minds.com and their CEO made a very good study and the like on how censorship does NOT make people less radical. Quite the opposite.
Aren’t we replacing one form of privilege for another when we say we can’t depict something in a certain way? In fact, now we have less diversity.
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We have less of an understanding of how far we’ve come or need to go. or what is bad or any way to find out.
This … although it BAFFLES people why this existed because, to over 90% of the population doesn’t agree with a very myopic view of this progress simply because they see the flaws.
So what can be done?
Well you, Capcom, have already did a really good job by adding a disclaimer.
While such content in the Battle network was not guilty of ANY such things. this is at least SOMEWHAT of a compromise. That's so much better. The game was not guilty of anything wrong and things are products of their time… even so this is a better solution.
What isn’t is the benevolent sexism. from blizzard and then censorhsip of women… that you do.
and dont’ get me started on the benevolent sexism
Liana K was harassed by Sarkeesian for years.
The put downs and the like are so common.
BENEVOLENT SEXISM is covering up women.
I’ve tried to write you about this for some time especially with the resident evil 4 VR butchiering and the Resident Evil 4 Remake that removes jokes and the like… because…
this same small group of weirdos have been enchanted by the anti semetic , abusive, “feminist” critic that didn’t believe how Eron Gonji was sexually abused… because the abuser was a cis-woman. in other words it was exactly like a case of Amber Heard but the victim loses, despite the victim having reciepts.
Other people praised the victim’s coming forward but then the media spun it in to something it wasn’t.
And so we have normalized censorship out of that panic of gamers being … white… male … misogynist. straight. bigots. whatever.
and the double standards are there too.
but those people did care about battle toads and even then.. why should that mean their valid criticism be less valid?
why the name calling of “horny”? and the projection.
It’s gross. it’s judging women if they have little clothes on. If you can’t respect a woman when she’s wearing nothing then you don’t respect her.
it’s … rediculous. these people are from called ResetEra (many of those people are on FBI watch lists).
NOt a single bit of Stellar Blade is at all anti woman, sexism or misogynist. but Reset Era is a strange, post-factual place. Rhetoric has replaced facts.
Yeah “uppity”. and “knew his place” as a black man. that’s some really gross stuff. it’s all there.
YEAAAAH these are the people find with the changes and “anti racism”.
Meanwhile. on the other side of the fence.
I hate to invoke this but … everyone else seems to. from an election. to shootings to anything. diging up the corpse of these abusive pro censorship people not getting their way in the past 30 years.
Heck they think they can protect children and women by censoring things. IN MEDIA. in fiction.
that is resources put to policing art instead of any real activism. IN fact, when people speak up and say the obvious… they are shot down.
He was shot down and put down. for stating the obvious.
The form of censorship known as Bowdlerization, expurgation of material in a work (typically already made) is a form of censorship.
And yet people say it “isn’t censorship”.
Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive,” happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional.
Even self censorship is insidious.
and it’s gotten insane where some people don’t even call it censorship. The idea that censorship is only censorship if the government does it is a sign of a poor education.
We’re more sensitive to scantily clad… oh the bullcrap of “desexualizing”.
the skirt measuring misogyny of the 21st century. this was rightly seen as misogynist. Now it’s coming back. Same bull even the same bull of treating women as fragile. Now with a slight twist that is just “feminist” but truly anti-feminist at its core.
Take back the night has become COVER UP, SL*T!
and you did that with Juri, R. Mika, and the like in street fighter. Ashley.
SOME HOW WE CAN HAVE EXPLODING HEADS AND FIRE ARMS BUT A SKIRT OR A PIECE OF FABRIC UNDER IT IS TOO MUCH.
it’s just nonsense. And even more nonsense when the preponderance of scientific evidence shows that objectification and such depictions DO NOT contribute to sexism in any way.
we were raging about it I was raging about it. prominent figures that are unfairly hated were raging about it.
i COMMENTED ON IT. everyone did, Censored gaming did, Everyone across the spectrum commented on it.
And with how King of Fighters was censored in China, and how all this censorship came out of the blue…
AND HOW THE REALLY CRAPPY JOURNALISTS ACCUSED RESIDENT EVIL 5 OF RACSISM IT DIDNT’ HAVE.
Why listen to these pro censorship assholes that pretend to have the moral high ground? They don’t.
in fairness, nor does the other side.
yet we still have that censorship. Books being burned and cooked. Publishers changing Roald Dhal (the back lash to that made the publisher offer the original works), Agatha Christie, Ian Flemming. And people know that’s wrong… Because we seem to see books as more precious than other forms of art because people are elitist like that.
People still see games as lesser or even harmful. The scientific evidence that shows they dont’ cause harm be damned. People wouldn’t call on governments to censor if they didn’t think that. . They don’t do this to books. at least… not as as much as they used to.
the ones that don’t say the writing is bad or any number of reasons… all of them ducking the question and issue like “the writing was bad” or “it’s not a big change” or they just go to baseless accusations and insults.
I’m not even sure THEY believe what they say. It’s manipulation tactics.
Perhaps most importantly, resorting to sensitivity reading and revisionism ignores the simplest solution to the problem of art you find offensive: If you don’t like it, don’t consume it — and don’t try to force your tastes and preferences onto others.
We are experiencing a concerning confluence of cynicism on the part of publishers, who want to avoid bad press and continue to sell reprints, and our rampantly censorial culture, where recreational outrage and perpetual offense pervade.Together,these phenomena sanitize0, flatten, and dull a world meant to be rich with creativity, experimentation, and growth — and that’s not good for anybody.
Attempting to create art that upsets no one will only create art that engages, entertains, and inspires no one. If we wish to promote and preserve free expression, interesting and provocative art, and the ability to change culture — and to recognize that cultural change has occurred — we will have to turn our current trend toward censorship and sensitivity reading in the other direction.
Even if that art is seen as wrong. there’s other ways to deal. we can have toggles. switches or just something more sustainable than the flights of fancy of what is or isn’t offensive that changes with the wind and the whims of someone possibly because of some ideology or something.
You’ll have an easier time being against censorship than for it. The consumers (at least me) have been trying to beg and beseech you. This censorship hurts in a way that I’m not sure I want to continue to be. But I don’t want you to worry about that.
The benefits of not censoring is to cut costs and not pay the sensitivity reader racket. To embrace diverse opinions and tastes, it’s ok not everything is for everyone and you’ll reach a broader audience by having options instead of straight obliteration or pretending the past didn’t happen.
And that’s assuming it was ever offensive to most people in the first place. You’ll make more money, Being against censorship is a better ESG score for Governance.
You can still be environmentally conscious, help the down trodden and the marginalized and have fair business practices for all identities, even marginalized ones. Even the United Nations, where a lot of these standards come from have Free expression as a human right in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Such anti bowdlerization practices will keep core fans and welcome new ones.
The idea and the corporate/invester push.
i’ll Quote a feminist video game critic and i think she’s got the right idea.
We’ve got that corporate push to make everything like milquetoast, safe, and then we have, on the other side, the extreme culture warriors from the right and the left saying it’s bad because it’s too far. When you’ve got both extremes saying the same thing about a product, chances are that product is probably somewhere in the middle.
That’s the thing about gaming, and that’s why I wanted to talk about the Saints Row reboot. This sort of wraps up the stuff I was talking about yesterday, so I guess this is part two of that. The things I just don’t like about the Saints Row reboot — my biggest thing is not necessarily the content, it’s that they took the soul of what the Saints Row games were and made them generic.
That’s what a lot of corporate overlords in gaming are trying to sell us: that modern young people want boring. They don’t. I don’t know a single modern young person that thinks, “Oh, I don’t want anything that’s funny or spicy or larger than life. I want everything to be as bland and safe and homogenized as possible.” Nobody thinks that way. They want interesting characters, they want interesting stories, they want stuff that pushes boundaries. Maybe it’s a little bit weird and not their thing, but they can go find something that is their thing. The idea that we’re going to limit what creators can do because we’re so worried about a small number of people getting offended is ridiculous.
Then you look at stuff like the Saints Row reboot, and it just makes you sad. It makes you sad because you look at what it was and what it is now, and you just think, “Who is this for? Who is this made for?” It’s certainly not for the fans of the original games. It’s not even for new fans, because new fans aren’t going to look at that and think, “Oh wow, that looks really cool and edgy and interesting.” They’re going to look at it and think, “Oh, that looks like everything else. That looks like every other game out there. Why would I play that?”
And that’s the problem. We’re just making everything the same, making everything safe and boring and uninteresting, and we’re losing what made games special. We’re losing what made games an art form.
This is where I want to tie in something that has been bugging me about what’s been happening with the Lollipop Chainsaw remake. Now, if you’re not familiar with Lollipop Chainsaw, it was this really weird, really funny, really edgy game that came out a while back. It was kind of a cult classic, right? It was made by Suda 51 and James Gunn, two guys who are known for their really unique, really out-there sense of humor and style.
And now they’re doing a remake, and there’s all this talk about how they’re going to tone it down, how they’re going to make it more appropriate for modern audiences. And it’s just depressing, because Lollipop Chainsaw was one of those games that was unapologetically itself. It was weird, it was funny, it was edgy, it was controversial, and it didn’t care. That’s what made it special.
Now they’re talking about making it more appropriate, and it’s like, no, don’t do that. Don’t take what made it special and unique and water it down for the sake of modern sensibilities. Modern sensibilities are killing creativity. They’re killing what makes things interesting and unique and special.
So, in conclusion, let’s stop trying to sanitize and homogenize everything. Let’s stop trying to make everything safe and boring and uninteresting. Let’s embrace what makes games special, what makes them unique, what makes them an art form. Let’s embrace the weird, the funny, the edgy, the controversial. Let’s embrace the creativity and the innovation and the uniqueness, because that’s what makes games great. That’s what makes games worth playing.
You can do all of what you’re doing corporately and also reconsider a better approach to the “global audience”.
People like options. Choice is better than restrictions. And Media preservation helps not alienate core fans like I feel I and SO MANY OTHERS have been alienated.
Having an anti censorship stance is also far easier than having to poll and go out or listen to some self proclaimed expert totally go against scientific knowledge.
No one wanted Juri censored. the fans who make VR models and spend live and those people give life and energy and money. and not rely on AI or people that have the best intentions are leading to a hot hot hell.
And then we get to the excuses.
Because “the times change”. according to some people. some people think that this was akin to blackface when it never was and never will be.
If you want examples of really bad racism. just look at the old rat poison advertising that had a Chinese person eating rats with the slogan “THEY MUST GO”.
What is being censored isn’t that. But i’m sure people will disagree. But that’s the thing, it’s an emotional appeal at that point.
But people have emotions, they have feelings. And Capcom, I get it, doesn’t want to upset. unfortunately this comes at the cost of free expression. and even respect. the idea of political correctness is that some how, these sterotypes are bad because it magically creates some sort of way to mask dangerous bigotry behind jokes and the like and normalize oppression.
Neat idea untill your realize that all those good intentions are just provable to science, maybe even flat out wrong. It’s not even falsifiable. it’s like how lgbt characters were “localized” in to being straight men or women. back in the day. all to avoid offense. Some people would call that a false equivalence. and i would have to disagree because we make fun of those who are seen as having less access to education and uneducated just fine.
APU from the Simpsons was bad but Scottish people and Rednecks are fair game? because of Privilege? nah… the whole “it’s about not punching down” thing just falls apart when you figure that.
Words can hurt, Even alienate. but the risk of that is far better than the more racist more totalitarian alternative. For some people, the human mind is keenly attuned to pointing out inconsistencies, lack of fairness and what they perceive as unjust limits on being free.
Slaves uprise. Peasants and serfs revolt if it gets bad enough. Even if they don’t, they know it to be wrong.
The identity politics at play just show some people that some people are more valuable than others while being told that the ideal is a world with equality… or that the circumstances of your birth make you a bad or good according to the Equitist. The Equitist either lies or truly believes that some people must be made unequal or less to atone for past inequality.
Such efforts to redistribute tangible assets have failed with grand amounts of oppression done in the name of justice. The idea that we can do this with intangible things and shrink privilege gaps so easily in this way is either misguided infantilizing, and vengeful cruelty, that only perpetuates the same sin it tries to fix.
Yes, even things as “small” as this.
If it was so small and of no consequence, all the more reason to not change or care.
Seriously, the game is over 20 years old and the edit was someone… FINALLY getting the plot?
“losing your shit”. What? I’m sick of the video where this was posted and criticized the use of the W word… but this doesn’t make sense.
People aren’t using their heads because… well, they’re just simply unversed.
The answer to eradicating and banishing the demons of sexism or racism will not come by invocations of its name and targeting “problematic” fiction be they large or small mobs.
But political correctness obscures power dynamics.
Another commenter said:
it doesnt make any sense to me, dead risings entire foundation was based on american stereotypes almost every single psycho was either white or fat/overweight, cop lady, cletus, slappy, adam the clown, steve, the buffet lady, gary, ted, randy, kenny, the military dude at the end of 3, evan the clown, etc all white and all fat or overweight, Larry and the one dude in 3 were the only asian psychopaths, tk was the only black psychopath and diego and carlito were the only hispanic while diego was simply having a mental breakdown and carlito was a major stereotype against the mexican community as a terrorist that wanted to kill americans for destroying his village/home which was understandable in his own way but why? You guessed it, the entire creation of the queen wasp that started the zombie infection was started from an experiment to increase the production of cattle because americans are too fat and consume way too much meat, the entire zombie apocalypse is based on an american stereotype and theyre gonna worry about one character? I never cared about any stereotypes and i thought thats what made dead rising comical, but changing larry to another white fat man just shows theyd rather worry about an asian stereotype and continue to focus on the american stereotypes, the irony is just hilarious
another says:
I just saw this through Reddit and one of them made a good point that I can kinda see why they changed Larry to a white man, it’s cause Carlito is finally done in by a fat American that he believed destroyed Santa Cabeza and this new guy is a butcher that was gonna make meat outta him. Tho another person made the point that it makes more sense that Larry stay Chinese cause for so long Carlito hated Americans for they did to his hometown but he’s killed off by an immigrant like him and was saved by said fat American! I can see the reason for the change but the left really aren’t smart enough to see the irony in the scene, crazies see a bad minority in the original game then swap ’em with a white person cause god forbid an individual minority is portrayed as evil. Even if an individual minority is portrayed as evil in these modern games, the villain is seen as the hero or “had a good point”, look at how the left keep reeeeing about Killmonger “being the hero”!
This kind of double think can lead to Cognitive dissonance. People that are not the target of protection my and do develop a resentment at the unfairness or maybe go overboard to patronize so they do not appear racist or bigoted. This then gives a dual idenitty to the very women and minorities that are “helped” in this way. This “help” causes a lot of problems.
Some internalize the Equitist model that minorities have no power and need the help [the performative, indulgent self-humiliations of the powerful and privileged class] breading in resentment. Some will have some what of an awareness and have an imposter syndrome all their lives.
That said, those who are
