The "progressives" seeing Jews whenever there's a goblin will never cease to be funny to me. Same goes for seeing Blacks from orcs, or Blacks/"natives" from savage barbarians, etc. They just can't help themselves!
It's especially funny - but also frustrating - that they're the ones who wanted this. They want the politics in games/entertainment, they want everything to be an analogy for racial or class oppression. So even if you have a game that has some native faction that is oppressed and is an obvious and intentional real-world analogy for how bad Hwitey is, if that analog isn't straight up Wakanda-levels of Kang, the white-bashing is racist against blacks because the latter weren't portrayed as perfect 200 IQ beings.
It gets weirder. I've seen people complain about the axe guy in soul caliber because he's obviously white washed native. He's a traditional German warrior from the point of view from a crazy Japanese point of view.
Oh, Rock. Yeah, I'm a latecomer to the series (started with 2 or 3, really), to the point that when Rock came back, he was a giant mace guy rather than an axe guy, with a very slightly different moveset to Astaroth.
The "progressives" seeing Jews whenever there's a goblin will never cease to be funny to me. Same goes for seeing Blacks from orcs, or Blacks/"natives" from savage barbarians, etc. They just can't help themselves!
It's especially funny - but also frustrating - that they're the ones who wanted this. They want the politics in games/entertainment, they want everything to be an analogy for racial or class oppression. So even if you have a game that has some native faction that is oppressed and is an obvious and intentional real-world analogy for how bad Hwitey is, if that analog isn't straight up Wakanda-levels of Kang, the white-bashing is racist against blacks because the latter weren't portrayed as perfect 200 IQ beings.
It gets weirder. I've seen people complain about the axe guy in soul caliber because he's obviously white washed native. He's a traditional German warrior from the point of view from a crazy Japanese point of view.
The axe guy? Astaroth? He's a fucking GOLEM.
Not astaroth. The one with the bear or buffalo head as a helmet.
Oh, Rock. Yeah, I'm a latecomer to the series (started with 2 or 3, really), to the point that when Rock came back, he was a giant mace guy rather than an axe guy, with a very slightly different moveset to Astaroth.