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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?