{"id":3171,"date":"2009-03-09T22:27:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:27:20","slug":"the-non-racist-resident-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-non-racist-resident-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"The non-racist Resident Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purveyors of game 5 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090306.wgtresident0306\/BNStory\/PersonalTech\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil<\/a> series want to clear something up: the game does contain violence, blood, gore, dismemberment, and the cooking of an impaled police officer, but absolutely no racism whatsoever; none. Odd, that; after all, it is called <em>Resident Evil<\/em>, racism is evil, so why not throw in some racism to provide a little variety to the routine dismemberment. Answer: dismemberment is Politically Correct, racism isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Resident Evil 5 not racist, producer says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Takeuchi also said the game&#8217;s story line is not meant as a metaphor for AIDS or real-world terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, I think the problem that we had with this game was a lack in communication,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s where this whole issue comes from. When the game is released and when the public gets to play the finished product, I think people will see the whole racism issue was just a misunderstanding.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purveyors of game 5 in the Resident Evil series want to clear something up: the game does contain violence, blood, gore, dismemberment, and the cooking of an impaled police officer, but absolutely no racism whatsoever; none. Odd, that; after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-non-racist-resident-evil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[2225],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}