Hmmmmm?
 

Here is a screen shot from the NBA Street series video game. Hmmm, tall skinny black guy playing basketball with an afro. Is this offensive, in poor taste, racist, bigoted, hate filled, prejudiced, politically incorrect, etc. etc. etc. I'm sure the creators of the game were a bunch of Japanese computer nerds.....Starang21, are these game creators all the second coming of David Duke? I don't know about you but I think they should be SERIOUSLY reprimanded.

http://www.absolute-playstation.com/...treet_hr_3.jpg

Re: Hmmmmm?
 

LOL, hot damn is that all your insignificant mind can conjure up??


bwahahahaha, you probably weren't even able to use the rest of your brain to breathe while you thought of this lame ass post.

How is this different than a thread about a design on a shoe? Man, you were pretty damned involved in that one.

And that is the second time you have mentioned something about brain cells and breathing. You can do better than that.

how about blinkin and typing at the same time?

:cool:

Its hard somtimes, but usually I manage.

Why don't you both stop your internet pissing match?

Do you have an opinion on the topic at hand, or are you just the self-appointed mediator?

Video games have a lot of potentially offensive material in them. They tend to be the manifestation of racial and gender stereotypes. There is a film entitled "Game Over" that discusses this in detail.

There are much more offensive video game images than the one you chose to reference. In my opinion, this particular image is not a racial caricature. Racial caricatures exaggerate certain features of a particular racial group (as opposed to play-up a seemingly 70's inspired black basketball player). Racial caricatures can be found in some of the art of the 60s and 70s, such as the paintings featured in the sitcom "Good Times." Those were arguably not meant to be offensive and are rarely taken as offensive because of who the creators are and what the art was generally used to depict. However, racial caricatures are also featured in racist propaganda of hate groups as well as Warner Bros cartoons. Those are either meant to be offensive or the creators were too insensitive to consider the offense.

We can't determine the intent of this stuff because that would require asking the creator (including the Addidas shoe caricature creator, who is supposedly half Asian) if she or he knew it could be offensive or intended to be offensive. What we look at is the social outcome. If the social outcome is that there are people who are offended, then END OF STORY. Why is this even up for debate?

I don't know. Comments about this little boy's pissing match seems pretty on-topic to me.;)

;)

Actually if you've read any of the other threads that these two have been arguing in, you'd see it was a pissing match. But then, it's not like I have to justify my comments to you anyhow.

chill

It's a stereotype to insinuate that Asians have different physical features than other races and to put caricatures of real people out there!

-Rudey

Thanks for attempting to do so, anyway. ;)

Do you have an opinion on the topic at hand?