As an ABC (American born chinaman), I’d love to see a “chinopoly”. I can just see the guy leaning through the O, with a peasant hat, slanted eyes, and chopsticks. Maybe a bowl of rice, too.
OK, that would be too sterotypical for me, but I could just imagine the locations: Forbidden City instead of Boardwalk, Hong Kong instead of Madison Gardens…
Apparently, Parke Bros is very much pannign to sue. They are not pleased with the potential copyright infringement.
As a matter of fact, there was a fairly popular first-person-shooter computer game some years ago called * Redneck Rampage * that capitalized on demeaning stereotypes about poor and/or rural whites, i.e. violent, drunk, filthy, ignorant, etc. Nobody burned it in a church parking lot, and I don’t recall any hypersensitive liberals making a fuss about it on our behalf. The game still occasionally turns up in the bargain bins at software stores, but for the most part it’s forgotten today. I say making a huge fuss about Ghettopoly is a tactical error.
Political cartoonist Tom Toles has a game “For those who don’t want to play Ghettopoly”.
Oligopoly
(If you are trying to see the link and it’s not Oct 15, you may have to go look for it).
monopoly copiers…sheesh! How about “Minority trading cards”?
“My genocide is 30% greater than your genocide!”
“Yeah, but my discrimination factor is higher by 5!”
“THat’s nothing! My Whineyorg makes me immune to logic attacks!”
You don’t get it…
Redneck
*Leonard and Bubba gotta get back Bessie, their prize-winnin’ pig who’s been abducted by aliens in Redneck Rampage, a ruckus-raisin’ riot of a first person 3D shooter set in the fictional town of Hickston, Arkansas.
Armed with up to nine impractical and occasionally illegal weapons ranging from a crowbar to an alien arm gun (to pull the trigger, yank on the tendon), blast your way with the boys through country bars and trailer parks. The aliens have been busy conducting experiments, cloning local folks like Hickston’s resident drunkard, Billy Ray.
Now these ornery alien enemies lurk behind every outhouse and jukebox, scratching themselves and waitin’ to whoop yer butt. If you thought navigating through a melted-down Los Angeles or sneaking around ogres’ castles was tough, then just try your hand a-whompin’ and a-stompin’ the good ol’ boys at Stanky’s Bar & Grill. You’ll find there’s nothin’ more terrifyin’ than the deep chuckle of an inbred alien clone stalking you in the backwoods, with nobody to hear your teeth chattering but the fifty chickens milling around underfoot.
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The difference is the characters, although stereotypical are viewed as favorable characters. They all aren’t drawn as subhumans and you can tell whomever created the game actually likes the characters or at least has an understanding of them.
I don’t know the game…are there any pregnant and barefoot 12 year olds in it? Any farmers banging sheep? Any families with 12 or more kids…
c’mon eating pork by-products and shooting aliens is hardly on the same level as portraying blacks, as drug dealing , uneducated sub-humans.
Would you now? So you wouldn’t have a problem with my game Tojo’s Revenge? i know you’re Chinese, but why should I bother treating Asians as indivduals…right?
You’re not the whiny type…so i know you don’t care.
Let’s say for my game i create game pieces and cards using some of this material…Attack on a Caucasion Woman
Not exactly the cute little icon you described is it?Icon
But it’ll do.
And the goal is of course world domination, including the murder of white women and the maiming of captured soldiers. I mean, that’s how you win the game…by behaving inhuman.
Now I guess it wouldn’t bother you, if walking with your friends in the mall, seeing a Mickey Rooney like character, with buck teeth and a knife to the neck of a white woman on a poster or a window full of gameboxes…but it would bother me.
…and is should bother anyone who’s tired of this racist crap for profit.
Question for you, do you think it would bother your parents? Your Grandparents, who may have actually lived with these images of themselves?
If so, are they whinners, too?
:rolleyes: No, bub, you’re the one who doesn’t “get it.” It never fails to amaze me how blind, stupid, callous and just plain mean lefties can be when it comes to poor and working class whites.
Then explain it to me. I explained why I thought it wasn’t the same caliber as ghettopoly.
So explain it to me. Show me the difference between honest fun, which is what I think this game is and deliberately picking material that is historical offensive?
let’s try this.
Using “rednecks” in a game is fine, so is using “ghetto blacks”, what makes in offensive…I MY opinion, is what you have them doing.
Had the goal of Redneck Rampage had been to sleep with as many relatives has possible and all the characters were inbreed deformed sub-humans, then I would agree with you. Had they ALL been portrayed as Klansmen or Waco Wackoos, you would have a point.
They’re not. Are “rednecks” being poked fun at…? Sure, but they are also portrayed has people willing to protect what they love…even if it a pig.
My Granddad loved his pig…but that’s another story.
As I said, i am more than willing to read what you have to say explaining why Redneck Rampage is on the same level as Ghettopoly.
Ghetto Rampage:
Jackson works at a fried chicken joint, when suddenly space aliens attack. They kidnap his pitbull “Cateater” and Jackson must fight to retrive his dog.
Using dozens of strange weapons ranging from the watermelon seed firing gun and the ghetto-blaster of doom to the highest of assult rifles, Jackson enters the abandoned town of Simi Valley California to face his ememies.
Characters include, Mr. Rabinowiz, the brainwashed pawnshop owner, Fat Tony, the Pizza Owner, Shanwania and her ‘army’ of youthful offender freedom fighters and of course Cool Leroy and his ‘potions’ of power.
Extra points are awarded for finding “soul food”, including cornbread, fried chicken and of course peanuts in soda.
offensive…or parody?
That’s because it was a lame game, and we were ignoring it to make it go away faster. 
Actually, there were some complaints about “Redneck Rampage,” though they were mostly under the larget umbrella of video-game violence:
Why do you feel the need to have someone to make fun of?
All my grandparents were German. During WWI the standard charicature of the Hun was big, evil-looking guys who went around shooting nurses when they weren’t too busy raping nuns or walking around with babies on their bayonets.
**If so, are they whinners, too? **
Quite the contrary…they thought they were hilarious. Even collected a few of the postcards. Of course, they had actual lives and didn’t have time to join the Professionally Offended.
Right. Of course your Grandparents didn’t have 400 years of images telling them of their inferiority…either.
I’ll give you a real world example, I couldn’t think of a racist word for Germans, that applied for your Grandparents time WWI, i don’t know any, I mean any really ugly ones. Sure I can use the “N” word, but it’s kinda weak.
If I called today’s German a “Hun” would he be offended?
However I have a lifetime of slurs for Blacks, Jews, Asians, even Italians.
My point being, that it’s easy not to be professionally offended when you have a relatively short history of being offended…especially if you’re White and in America or the majority in your own country.
It’s easy to laugh, when you’re in charge again.
Let me ask you another question. Say we work together and I make no bones that I don’t like Germans.
You walk in my office and the walls are covered with WWI/WWII anti-German propaganda…posters/postcards etc. All the things, your Grandparents laughed at.
The office has a policy against racist material. You know that I have a hatred for all things German.
Do you call me on the posters or do you let go, knowing that everyone who walks in that office is being subjected to that material?
Let’s say you’re not professionalll offended, but are now noticing that people in the office are begining to treat you different.
Is there a connection to my “funny” posters and the way your co-workers are begining to treat you?
Oh come on. Do you really believe that Ghettopoly is equivalant to the “Magnitude doesn’t matter” examples? (As I say, I’m fine with peasant hats, slanted eyes, cheap chinese food joints that cause indigestion, study!, etc.) I agree that MLK is a bit out of place among the others (not that he can’t be parodied) but it still is no reason to get all whiney about it.
>Why do you feel the need to have someone to make fun of?
Because if we stifle parodies, the rest of free speech will soon follow. Once we lose the capacity to laugh at ourselves, something’s seriously wrong.
If you’re asking “who can we make fun of?”, you’re not looking to laugh at yourself. Why can’t we learn to better ourselves legitimately instead of putting down easy and popular targets for profit? How can anyone take pride in that?
Ridiculous. As an African-American, I am very offended by this game. It isn’t funny. It isn’t cute. Here, want to laugh, here’s a joke for you:
What’s the difference between a Jew and a loaf of bread?
The loaf of bread doesn’t scream when you put it in the oven.
Very funny right? Why aren’t you laughing? C’mon, laugh now. Remember, “. . . once we lose the capacity to laugh at ourselves, something’s seriously wrong.” Oh I get it. It’s only funny when you’re laughing at minorities right? Things haven’t change a damned bit since the early part of the 20th century.
Shameful.
- Honesty
The above quote was taken from a Chicago Sun-Times article about the reaction of some of it’s readers to Ghettopoly. I think this quote echoes some of the sentiments expressed in this thread.
Such a line of thought is absurd. It’s akin to asking ‘How can some white people be outraged over CBS’s plans for a real Beverly Hillbillies when some white celebrities and producers have gotten rich by promoting those same stereotypes?’ One can find something offensive even if one’s peers find it harmless fun.
There’s no black hive-like mentality. Case in point: I think the game is funny. Many of my fellow black dopers do not.
OMG! Why did you clip the quote? It’s even more horrendous when you see to what it responds!