Hey, @faderifthunter. I am indeed calling the franchise that has…
Whitewashed nearly every major character of colour at some point
Pulled all the shit Gaider did with Isabela in the comics
Shown less and less respect for all their religions except the Christian-coded one
Has used actual real life slurs like “savage” and “half-breed” to describe Indigenous-coded characters
Inserted tone-deaf inter-community division without any understanding, message or thought besides using it as a back-drop for their fantasy worldbuilding
Inserted tone-deaf “grey morality” into slavery using an Indian man as a megaphone, though thankfully we had Feketekuty’s damage control in Tevinter Nights
Inserted tone-deaf colourism without any understanding, message or thought besides using it as a back-drop for their fantasy worldbuilding
Actually, tone deaf really sums up at lot of how they co-opt IRL issues and don’t do anything with it besides letting white players play tourist
Wrote an entire story about an elven and human man being “freed” from his elven heritage as a positive thing
Has sexualized and/or embodied the “Latin Lover” stereotype with nearly every brown Antivan character seen (sans Josephine), and also Isabela could fall under this as well
Has continuously pushed colonial messages of the oppressed needing to forgive their oppressors because #Reconciliation amirite?
Has filled their games with the same amount of overhwelmingly white NPCs since 2009
Has given players more options for eyelash colours than skin colours
Has placed in their games NPCs that can only be labelled as racist caricatures in design, especially in DA:O
Has the tendency to design villains with the same certain features
And need I say again, decided that the race they have fully acknowledged to be developed from Indigenous, Jewish and Romani sources of inspiration will always have multiracial children who are 100% whatever race their non-elven parent is because “magic”, was an acceptable and not at all an insulting writing choice
You know, just to name a few things that come to mind right away…
Them throwing us some Strong Female Characters does not excuse racism. Them throwing us some LGBT characters does not excuse racism. Them even including characters of colour does not excuse racism, when all of the above is what they do with these characters.
I’m also not going to bother answering your pseudo question about why it’s not okay if it’s just fantasy racism, when you couldn’t even be bothered to click on the links provided in my response to your post that already do just that. But because I am a kind and benevolent blogger, it’s also included in the list above. Have at it if you actually care to learn something, instead of plugging your ears and refusing to acknowledge that your fave corporation isn’t squeaky clean.
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