Hmm.
I wondered whether to keep quiet because it’s not really the Resident Evil film that interests me, but no-one is going to see eye-to-eye on this subject unless the fundamental disagreement is broached upon, namely the subject of ethnicity.
It’s quite true that comic book heroes and the like don’t have a reason not to be another race, but the reason they have been white for decades is because they are a product of American culture – Which is a white-majority country. American culture is of much white culture as Europe is, so it only makes sense that a majority of characters in an American setting would be of European descent, mainly English. It’s just an unconscious choice you wouldn’t give much thought to, regardless of your own country of origin. Would you write an African setting with a majority Asian cast? Not unless you’re some kind of schizophrenic cultural colonizer.
Which I’m pretty sure is what some of these Left-wing writers are. Many of them engage in the most incoherent political babble I’ve ever witnessed, denouncing race as just a social construct where whites are represented, but race is suddenly important when talking about other races, especially blacks. They’re either completely insane or are deliberately gaslighting. My guess is on the latter, and I think it is part of a concerted effort to get white people to not view themselves racially, while at the same time getting everyone else to define themselves as a racial group “(People of Colour” is a catch-all term I see them use often, almost as to insinuate all non-whites have something in common when they don’t). It is a deliberate effort to create fractures in society and exploit racial division.
Comic books and video games are unimportant in the long-scheme of things – But they are part of the larger culture war. I would think it’s part of the Left’s strategy of demoralization: Claim that race is unimportant, take away a beloved icon, provoking the Right into offense and so they end up looking like bigots while in the same breath claiming race now is important. It’s an effective way to de-legitimize counter-arguments and get people to follow your lead.
Diversity in of itself might seem innocuous. But I do wonder… how exactly is diversity a strength, anyway? Human beings are very tribal creatures and have an innate in-group preference. It is quite natural for us to surround ourselves with those who look like ourselves.
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