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Originally Posted by mercedesjin
Salvanas:
MMM: Yet they're using an image that portrays the idea that one race is superior to the other. The child was ignorant of the fact that he/she had racist ideals. The Japanese that used this image are ignorant of the fact that portrays one race as superior to the other. Both still use racist ideas, whether they're aware of it or not.
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If this child believes that one race is superior to another, then the child is racist.
Many racists wear this term as a badge of honor. The child may also be ignorant, but that is beyond the point.
We have no reason to think the programmers of the game are racist, despite the poor choice of images they chose, because we know about the history of Lil Sambo type imagery in Japan.
That image itself doesn't portray one race as superior to another in Japanese eyes, and that is the intended target.
Just as the word "Caucasian" may be based in a system of thinking where one race is more beautiful than the others, it doesn't make users of that word today racist or the use of the word racist because there is no racist intention behind the usage. I can agree there may be a racist history to the word, but that doesn't make the usage of the word racist.
The n-word has been dropped dozens of times in this thread. That doesn't mean the person who used it or the usage is racist.