Valve Responds to L4D Racism Accusations

[Fusion777]

Completely retarded. Or maybe it's racist because not ENOUGH zombies were african-american? (rolls eyes)

 

[gorehound]

Stupid PC World we now live in.

 

[Guest]

All of this liberal non-sense makes me sick, people need to stop looking for problems so we can solve the ones we have.

 

[compulsionnra]

This argument is bullshit. Same old song and dance for overly sensitive people. This was crap in RE5 and it's crap here. I do still plan to boycott L4D2 until it's $20-30 since they are trying to price-gouge everyone.

 

[Guest]

Considering that 97% of blacks that voted this time voted for Obama, maybe this video game got something right.

Jigs = zombies.

 

[demonhorde665]

actually if any thing they need two female chars to balance shit better , hell half the people i play l4d 1 with are girls and still they are only gonna give 1 token female cahr in the game ???

 

[demonhorde665]

as a texan i'd have to say this to the guy SCREW THE KATRINA PEOPLE , i'm tired of hearing aobut poor them (and thye wernet all black ) we gave them releife evac to hosuton ,a dn you nwo what they trashed the place , they came were extreemely disrespectiful , abnd on top of it they fucked up every thing they touched here , for seemingly no apprent reason , reagardless of their race , they are mostly a bunch of sorry POSes and i dotn give halfa rat's ass what racve they are , or if they are offendded by the video game i play.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]As a foreigner looking at this with interest, I was able to think up of only one thing.Americans need to band together and see themselves as Americans, not hyphenated Americans.We in Canada have adopted this mentality somewhat, and although hyphenation is still widely used (such as Chinese-Canadian) we treat each other more or less the same way as any other race. Perhaps this is why the average racial hatred crime rate in Canada is much lower than in the United States.I think it's time the public and every race in the US dropped the hyphenation identifying their original race. Having hyphenations like "African-American" just serves to increase the racial barrier among groups and incite racial hate. At the same time, laws have to be changed to take a more aggressive stand against racial groups such as the KKK.Special groups such as the NAACP don't help the cause either. All they do is praise achievements by African-Americans and advocate their policies no matter how unfeasible or unsuitable it may be. If anyone refuses then they would be labeled "racist". Hence the key to stopping all this unnecessary racial talk is for every group to work together to eliminate the trivial differences among us.I hope the US can one day become as diverse and united as others around the world.[/citation]


damn loo why is it foriegneers see our nes and toatlly drink this media image up like kool aid ???

seriously dude , no one but our media goes aroudn Hyphenating shit, i don't go arounda dn say i'm "white american" and my black, oriental , and hispanic friends dont go around sayign , I'm african american , or im Korean american. ONLY the dumb media does this because it get's viewers/reader's atttention.

if i jsut totally ate up your country's or my country's media news , i'd probably beleive that all canadisans ,are pussies or french guys or both . but you know what i dont , i don't make ASSumptions about other peoples nation's or culture. (and besides in the case of canada i know better than to take the face image that mdeia portays about canada). so please in the future don't make assumptions about US's cultures , because here we really do get along better than what you think , it's only our media that makes it look like thier is always trouble, because trouble sells more than writing news about peace and the like.

 

[matt87_50]

bah, if L4D was truly racist, Louis would start with 1 hit point, have no name, and be the only character visible by the hunter as long as he was alive.

 

[Dave_69]

matt87_50 - LOL!!!!

 

[wild9]

I find the hypocrisy of some people absolutely astounding. It seems that only NOW do they decide to crawl from their rocks, and raise the issue of race representation within the entertainment media.

I am disturbed by the growing trend of racist undertones that are cropping up in video games,

Says you.

One of the games that comes to mind is Left 4 Dead 2

You mean, ONE of the FEW straws you could CLUTCH, in order to make sweeping statements..or rather, opinions wrapped up as facts.

several of them who appear to be African-Americans

Quick off the mark, aren't you. According to the 200 census for New Orleans:

. Around 67% were African American
. Around 28% were white

Hence, 2/3 of the population is African American. Add to this the fact that "several" characters actually appears to number 2, with other races representing the rest.

I wonder what Willie Jefferson's views are on representing races in other media formats, such as TV and film. See, for several years now it seems that Hollywood is hell-bent on portraying it's own version of reality - with some races faring better than others; some races are over-represented as evil, whilst others are put on a pedestal or their evilness is passed of as some kind of temporary lapse of reason. In other words, played down.

But forget that..we have a catalyst here, it seems, allowing certain people to jump on the bandwagon and say the fashionable thing - not the right thing - the fashionable thing. Such idiocy extends to corporate policy, where again, certain groups are over-represented "in case" anyone is offended, and it basically makes me sick. I've witnessed it personally, where people who are incompetent get the position not because they're cut out to do the job, but because they are a demographic that MUST be employed in that position at ALL costs. You then come home to see the same kind of bile that this guy's spewing..be it news, entertainment or education.

By the way Willie, I don't know if you can read this. But I have several African American friends who just cannot wait to get their hands on that game. Seems they aren't the one's making an issue out of it. They have the intellect to realise that this is fiction, that the black people in the game are just as much prone to turning into zombies as the anyone else. I didn't see Willie complaing about most of the people in Res 4 being white - there's countless more examples but he might be be able to get the same kind of media reaction he's getting here, perhaps..

 

[wild9]

200 census for New Orleans..should read 2000.

 

[wild9]

Going by the 2000 census, and on confirmation that that African American's are a minority in this game..wound't that suggest African American's could actually be under-represented? Depends on the storyline I guess..maybe it will be edited soon just in case it offends certain people.

 

[10tacle]

I say no more black character representations on shooters, no African nations be cast in shooters, and no majority black cities in America be cast in shooters. Awe to hell with it. No black representation at ALL in shooters from this day moving forward. That should keep all the bedwetting white guilt liberals like this asshat happy. Of course, they'd probably b!tch about that too.

 

[ukgooey]

Who the fuck is Willie Jefferson? And why is the dumb prick trying to create racial problems where there are none? A lot of people have already described my feelings adequately so I'm just gonna call the half-wit names. If he can be that stupid then I don't see why I should waste my time trying to be smart. I don't have enough respect for the guy to think up anything clever.

And why in this day and age do we still have to talk about this? Why is race still an issue? It's only the older generations and the retarded youth of the world that are still causing this problem.

Well, at least I can still take the mickey out of gingers.

 

[wild9]

I'm gonna come out the closet and admit I'm zombist..

 

[axilon]

I lived through Katrina.. Hell I still have some walls in my house without paint! Him saying 'the aftermath'.. its dead and buried people, we rebuilt! And I live 10 miles west of New Orleans! I love the fact its near my home... I want to see how well valve represents the nuances of our local characteristics. If you want racism... have the police arrest the zombies!

 

[Guest]

Willie Jefferson is a racist because Stone Cold says so ...

 

[sceen311]

This Willie Guy is a Noob.

New Orleans is below sea level and directly next to the sea. In a gulf with an active hurricane season. And they thought a wall was going to hold back the ocean??? I should feel sorry for these people because???

 

[thearm]

How in the world have these racist black leaders gotten so much control over things?