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At 1/10/10 10:53 AM, Detached wrote: OP needs to learn to live a little, jesus. It's just a game maan.

If they made a game with racial slurs against black people, everyone would be all over their asses about how horrible they are. As it is, it's written off as a harmless joke. I think this is one of the problems in America: we only think of ethnic equality in terms of black or white, maybe because that's the most common division represented in popular movies. We forget that we need to treat anybody else as an equal when we think like this. Even in games, ethnic backgrounds should not be mentioned in insults.

Two words: Unbeatable Banzuke.

/stupid.

Ehh i think in this game, its a tongue in cheek commentary on stereotypes. The whole game is built on exaggerated stereotypes, why are stereotypes bad anyway? Why is it so taboo to just have fun with how dumb stereotypes are.

Humans naturally stereotype things by nature anyway, its easier for human brains to catalogue something unfamiliar to them, it makes mental placeholders based on information it does have and puts things in vague storage bins until it receives more specific information to catalogue. When you first get acquainted with Pico and friends, its like oh yea the red haired kid, or oh the ginger. Or if you dont know who Darnell is, you classify him oh the black kid. Then as you process more information you start personalizing that profile on that person. Oh its pico, the middle school kid who is violent. Or oh Darnell, the guy who only 4 more years to live and is obsessed with fire. etc.

I should also mention that this heated debate is over a petty flash game on a website with 200000000 other games you could be wasting your time on.

Stereotypes are only bad because people make it personal. The game's american main character is stereotyped just the same if youre going to split hairs about it.

Butthurt asian alert, stay clear.

At 1/8/10 09:30 PM, HecticCircleCrap wrote:

At 1/8/10 09:26 PM, immigrantsong wrote: Hmmm. That I didn't know. Do you know any examples by any chance?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/

This just so happened to make my day.

Boy, I sure can't wait until "Negro Paradise" is released!

I agree that it is a little sterotypical, BUT THAT IS WHY IT IS FUNNY!!!!!
When I played, after figuring out that it takes place in Asia, and saw boxes everywhere like it was in a packaging plant or factory I thought that it was really funny.
It is humor, and if you dion't like humor like that, then get the hell off of newgrounds.

Is it just me or is OP's username slightly ironic?

I think these people agree with you.

At 1/10/10 04:48 PM, ThePortalGuru wrote: I think these people agree with you.

Somehow, I believe you.

At 1/8/10 09:01 PM, immigrantsong wrote: I do want to argue that I am not one of those guys who think it's totally okay to make fun of white people for their racial identity as well. But unfortunately, any racial slurs for white people do not carry the same negative weight in comparison to racial slurs against people of color.

Until I read this paragraph, I found your argument to be interesting and thought you had a chance.

But you just lost me after this. I'm not saying so because I'm white or whatnot, it's just the fact that you say that racial slurs for whites are not as negative as for coloured. Whether or not that has any truth to it, it still contradics with your entire argument. you had a sense of equality until here. A racial slur is a racial slur. It has the same effect, but us "whates" just have a different take on it. However you look at it, the word has the same amount of negativity as any other. So...

You win nothing! Good DAY sir.

At 1/10/10 05:40 PM, Los-Illuminados wrote: ...us "whites" just...

Typo fix'd.

I would like to see the emails and PM's that you sent before I say that JohnnyUtah is being inordinately dickish. I wouldn't find it hard to believe if JU was in part reacting to an angry rant.

Also, the fact that we're telling you to stop being so sensitive doesn't mean that we are "shooting your opinion down" or that we can't see your viewpoint. I've read your opinion (and two pages of posts along with it) and I comprehend what you're saying. I understand why you would be offended, but that doesn't change the fact that I think you need to realize that this is not meant to be taken seriously. I'm not claiming that your opinion isn't valid; I'm simply countering yours with mine.\

It seems like the only people who can "see it your way" are the people who are agreeing with you. Curious.

At 1/10/10 11:28 AM, ohbombuh wrote: If they made a game with racial slurs against black people, everyone would be all over their asses about how horrible they are. As it is, it's written off as a harmless joke.

You say that like it shouldn't be written off as a joke. It is a joke, like a lot of things are. Whether or not people react to it doesn't change its status as simple humor. Whether or not the masses think it's horrible does not make it so. It is what it was meant to be, not what it's interpreted as being.

At 1/10/10 04:48 PM, ThePortalGuru wrote: I think these people agree with you.

I think these people showed why everyone should agree with him.

OP are you telling me that all asians dont look like this?
I refuse to believe it.

I totally get where you're coming from, OP.
After the Abercrombie & Fitch protests at Stanford University in 2002, I don't think it's safe to use any stereotypes in a pop culture setting that would anger the Asian community.

At 1/10/10 04:48 PM, ThePortalGuru wrote: I think these people agree with you.

This atricle states that saying "ching chong" is as bad as saying the N word?
Seriously?Ok, it makes fun of the japanese language, but it's not nearly as bad as that...can someone explain to me wtf are they talking about?

ChingChong-o-bots, roll out!

At 1/10/10 10:39 PM, ohbombuh wrote: I think these people showed why everyone should agree with him.

The thing that angers me most about these people is that they claim that anyone who tells them that they're overreacting is trying to "silence their voice against racism." But they don't take into consideration that they're making this big of a deal over a stupid flash game that they themselves admitted had fun gameplay. They don't seem to consider that maybe they are making a mountain out of a molehill. Inordinate overreaction and the act of claiming something is unacceptable due to racism are not mutually exclusive. It's social commentary, not white supremacy propaganda. All of the media and art that makes fun of the dumb American or redneck white stereotype is no different.

lol JohnnyUtah is fukin hilarious. great e-mail

also u should take it easy like many others have said before me. u shouldnt be gettin worked up over the name of a game or its contents which arent blatantly racist. have u been on the adult section? cause thats the real fuked up shit like the Rebecca video (but that shits so cash)

You're really stupid.

At 1/15/10 06:17 AM, The-Swain wrote: You're really stupid.

I love this thread.

What I kinda surprised me: Ching Chong sounds chinese but what has that to do with a japanese gameshow?
I don´t get it...