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Mar 16 2009 9:29am EDT

Controversy! Must We Only Kill White Zombies?

New York Times video game critic Seth Schiesel tackles the important question of whether it's racist to set a dark-future first-person shooter game in Africa. His verdict: It's okay, because under our skin we're all just zombies who haven't been infected yet:

Resident Evil 5 exposes the perhaps uncomfortable truth that blacks and Arabs can become zombies too, just like anyone else. Blacks and Arabs do not have a secret anti-zombie gene. And just like all the thousands of white, Asian and Hispanic zombies that have been dispatched in innumerable other games before them, the African zombies must also be destroyed, or at least neutralized.
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