The Seattle Times - Video-game industry not to blame for gun violence.
Just like any other form of entertainment, there are a vast number of video-game choices. Don’t throw the whole industry under the bus because of a few games that happen to be violent. And even with those games, there is no proof that violent video games lead to violent acts.
Quboid wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 14:27:Azusa wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 14:18:Quboid wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 14:05:
That is the context. He said black. I think he meant that sort of criminal rap culture, but he said black as if it's the same thing and that's racist.
How so? I agree that his words as written were a racist statement. But it seems you are suggesting here that even if he hadn't said 'black people', but had instead referred to a culture, he's still a racist?
Racism is a belief that a group of people are inferior because of the physically identifiable characteristics of their race. It has nothing to do with culture. Culture is a choice, race is not. The fact that race isn't a choice is the singular reason that racism is such an abhorrent idea. Applying that same level of stigma to someone because they addressed a perceived problem in a culture is dishonest.
Would it also be racist to suggest a culture of cannibal Asians was a 'bad' culture?
If he'd referred to a by-choice culture then it wouldn't have been racist. The reason he is racist is because he heavily implied that in general, black people are of this culture because of their race.
I'd suggest that a culture of cannibalism is bad regardless of race, much like a culture of criminality is bad regardless of race.
This is what he could have said:What's happened is that a substantial section of the Chavs that you wrote about have a culture of criminality. The looters are people who have come to see crime as normal. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion
That is, I believe, what he meant. However, he used a race to describe this culture and it is very clearly very racist to assume that black = criminal!
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Geez RollinThundr are you kidding me? That these rappers are most often black does NOT mean that black people are most often criminals. I am debating and the reason I'm talking about racism? BECAUSE OF ALL THE RACISM.
I am debating, you are playing the 'playing the X card' card.