It appears that some people just can’t help it but make mountains out of molehills. Recently, a blog post on the Houston Chronicle stated that Left 4 Dead 2 had ‘racist undertones’ for including several black people among the walking dead. Perhaps he did not see the main characters yet, 2 of which are black. But whatever the case, Valve’s L4D writer Chet Faliszek has responded, giving a lot of reasons why L4D wasn’t racist. I’ll not elaborate on those obvious reasons but it can be summarized in 2 words:
“Utter insanity,” says Faliszek.
Yep, it is utterly insane to insinuate that a game is racist just because of a few black zombies. It is utterly insane that shooting black zombies among a sea of white zombies when 2 of the main characters are also black could also constitute racism. In fact, I wouldn’t even consider it a controversy at all if someone hadn’t decided to blow things up. Seriously, just layoff the racist nonsense please.
[via Destructoid]
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