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If you have to say "i'm not racist" chances are you are
A trend that you can’t help but notice if you follow any sort of racial issues is that when white people do something racist, they almost always include in their apology, “I’m not a racist”. Most of you should know … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege, Racism, USA
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Luxury of Travel: Ariel's Trips to Canada & Nicaragua
I’m in Nicaragua right now and taking advantage of my American right to travel. I can move fairly freely in a country impoverished by my nation’s doing–and by extent my own. I certainly benefit from globalization and the United State’s … Continue reading
Posted in Classism, Gender issues, Personal, Privilege
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Racial issues in Resident Evil 5: Link Roundup
Since today’s my long day at school, for day four of International Blog Against Racism Week I’m going to do a link roundup of some of the discussion that’s been going on about Resident Evil 5. The primary reason for … Continue reading
Video games and the usual amount of racism
For day three of International Blog Against Racism Week, I want to look specifically why games, such as many of the prior Resident Evil ones, haven’t received as much criticism as, say, Resident Evil 5 has. So, why aren’t critiques … Continue reading
Who's the one arguing in bad faith?
This week is International Blog Against Racism Week (hat tip to Oyce for the icon). I actually contributed to day one without meaning to, posting a quick rebuttal to the claim that the no one complained about the previous games … Continue reading
Resident Evil: White people killing white people?
As a fan of the Resident Evil series one thing that’s been rather amusing about the race wank surrounding Resident Evil 5 is the claim that the rest of the series was all “white people killing white people”. I wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Multiculturalism, Racism, Video Games
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Resident Evil 5 Trailer
Can you spot what’s wrong with the trailer? Hint: it’s not the cg or the cinematography. Via Iris forums. ETA: For all the racist-apologist fanboys who are offended at the very thought of people engaging in criticism of their beloved … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege, Racism, Video Games
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That's some bizarre trolling
So over at Wonderland Alice has this post up about the (racist, sexist, sizeist, etc) limitations of a new website called Barbiegirls.com, which is apparently an online chat program aimed at girls: Most of the body type options are caucasian-stereotype, … Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, Racism
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When you can use offensive terms and not be offensive
If you’re part of a privileged group, when can you use offensive terms without being offensive? Watch the video to find out. Personally, I think the last example using the white person cuts through all the crap about bigoted humour … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege, Racism, Teh Funnay, The Evil -ism's
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Hollywood, please stop shitting on my childhood
While on vacation, I went to see the Fantastic Four movie (the only reason it was worth it was because it was the first move I had seen in theatres in over a year) and had the dubious pleasure to … Continue reading
Posted in Film and televison, Gender Caste, Gender issues, Racism, The Evil -ism's
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