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CommissarMega posted:But aren't the Irish all white in skin colour? I know it's dumb to apply logic to racism, but what manner of convoluted reason made the Irish not-white in the eyes of racists? http://theaporetic.com/?p=54 In the USA, for a long time, the Irish were considered "colored" and this blog has a scan of a marriage certificate between two Irish people in Virginia in 1884 wherein they were classified as "colored" when it came to their race. In fact, with regards to the one-drop rule, the system required that children with parents who are suspected to be negro would need to be marked early so they couldn't attempt to "pass," and the people the state hired to enforce these rules were often very motivated by their work:  Keep in mind, this was 1923: The child mentioned in Plecker's letter could still be alive. bassguitarhero fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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The big problem is that the voxophones from comstock and others say that the blacks have to be oppressed because they're bloodthirsty, violent animals, and only white people can run a society, and then the writers have Fitzroy and the Vox populi prove them right. As a black person playing this game, this is pretty much what racists have been complaining that blacks are like for years so it's a little bit of a slap in the face. I've bought and played through all the games in the series and this is the lowest point by far.
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Pidmon posted:Complaining that we don't see stuff outside the scope of the story is like that lovely Spoony Bard reviewer guy's complaint about Inception not having dragons and magic when it was a modern day heist dream movie. There's fan theories going around that the moment Elizabeth kills Songbird happens at the same moment that Sander Cohen kills Kyle Fitzpatrick on the piano in Bioshock 1, due to the fact you can hear some of the same (stock) sounds of Songbird dying in the background of Fitzpatrick's death. If that was the case then Jack would have already been through this part of Rapture by the time Booker & Elizabeth show up.
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