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Does WoW teach children racism?
Vinzent
Member Posts: 161
Okay, so it's a bit inconceivable that playing WoW will turn you into a skinhead. But if you look at the gameplay mechanics, there is definately racism there.
Orcs, Trolls, Undead, and Tauren are evil if you're with the Alliance.
Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Gnomes are evil if you're with the Horde.
Good and evil is being determined by race, not by values. You have to admit that's pretty racist. I don't even have the option of playing an Orc that agrees with and supports the alliance's aims. If I did I would be a "traitor to the species" (sound familiar?).
Of course, if WoW did let species intermingle they might just end up with World of Peacecraft.
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But it's like that in real life
White people hate black people
and black people hate white people.
This will never change.
Why not get kids used to it in a game?
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I think that would be... Classisisim.... or Specisisim.... or something like that....
(now, if you were excluded because you weren't a NELF priest, that would be racism).....
No, I'd say the parallels are more in line with nationalism than racisim....
But seriously, aren't you reading a little too deeply into a game meant to provoke conflict/competition between opposing sides?
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Just a month ago my friend was wearing elf ears and I bashed him good, Heil Horde....
Seriously though, I agree with the second poster, that there are instances where cooperation between the factions happens. When you're playing a druid, both the horde and alliance share the same zone and there's no problems, in fact there's advice and help on the druid quests. As for the issue of racism, I think the faction vs faction struggle is emphasized more than race vs race.
This thread isn't a flame waiting to happen.
There's always good vs. evil, jebus man if you think like that uninstall and play Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
oh and by the way. I hate when I get shampoo in my eyes so I guess that makes me a shampoo racist
and why always black/white if u gonna go there add this too
mexicans hate japanese
japanese hate mexicans
russians hate europians
europians hate russians
add everyone in the mix not just white/black.
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currentlyplaying:
age of conan
Well look at PvP. You can't kill a member of your own side unless you "duel" him. But creatures from the opposite side are fair game. As long as race is the sole determining factor in which side you play on the game will continue to have racist undertones.
As an Orc, I cannot got to stormwind without being attacked. As a human I cannot go to the undercity without being ravaged. The only nuetral species (goblins) is unplayable.
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Final Fantasy 7
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currentlyplaying:
age of conan
Peoples reaction based on my spec, is the same as peoples reactions based on a race.
i think its funny in the end.
good god... it is navel gazing lint munchers like you that make this world a damn funny place! Thanks for sharing your uber sandbox mentality .... ugh...
pardon me while I go vomit... I have a nerfy chunk of PC caught in my gizzard...
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Well look at PvP. You can't kill a member of your own side unless you "duel" him. But creatures from the opposite side are fair game. As long as race is the sole determining factor in which side you play on the game will continue to have racist undertones.
As an Orc, I cannot got to stormwind without being attacked. As a human I cannot go to the undercity without being ravaged. The only nuetral species (goblins) is unplayable.
Yeah but that's due to factional disagreements. Do you think that the Blood Elves hate the Night Elves for racist reasons? Hard, because they are the same race, just two subparts of it. Still, they belong to different factions, and so they are at odds with each other. It's political more than it is racial.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Well look at PvP. You can't kill a member of your own side unless you "duel" him. But creatures from the opposite side are fair game. As long as race is the sole determining factor in which side you play on the game will continue to have racist undertones.
As an Orc, I cannot got to stormwind without being attacked. As a human I cannot go to the undercity without being ravaged. The only nuetral species (goblins) is unplayable.
doesn't everyone have a right to be racist? I mean if I don't want to higher a black person do I have to if it makes me work worse? I have a right to make a living in an honest way. Why can't I be honest and not impede my business's operations. Why do I have to higher the black/smelly/funnylooking/overweight/etc.etc. man.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Got the point
You are only a racist If you want to be or see it like that SO damn
get some freash air and take a break
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That's just the way they set it up, really. Because I see the cooperation between races of different factions at the higher levels of the game, I don't really see it as "racist", although the way the factions are organized is "racial". I mean, that's kind of a baseline design of the game -- races have their own capitals and the like, and there is lore about why the races that cooperate with each other do so -- based on history and lore and not racism.
And certainly not all NEs hate Orcs or vice-versa. I've been on RP "Peace Walks" through Ashenvale Forest with characters from all races who felt like RPing as Peaceniks. The game is what you make of it.
Just sayin'....
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