Is BSN biased against black characters?

 

Ah, but here is the question, are bsn posters being racist when they refer to her as a different ethnicity than the one she is?

Ultimately, this is a silly thread. Neither Bioware nor BSN are racist.

Jacob is somewhat dull, but that doesn't make his inclusion racist, it just means he has a dull persona. I actually like the character, if he was in ME1 he'd have been a lot better received, but he first appeared in a game featuring a genetically modified woman, insanely powerful biotics, reptilian assassins, perfect krogan specimens and a geth! No wonder he didn't stand out. Also, a lot of bsn posters seem to play femShep, so their view of him is skewed to the romance where I play maleShep where he is just a guy on the ship. Sure, he's dull, doesn't mean he isn't likeable. He has daddy issues, sure... but so you realise, that's not just for black people. That is something that is worldwide, all cultural groups have shit dads in their midst. Oh, and Jacob's dad wasn't even the worst of the lot (though he was pretty horrendous, its a horrible mission), Miranda's dad was worse by far; he genetically engineered children discarding those that didn't match up, kidnapped his own daughter, lured thousands to a camp to be tortured, experimented on and turned into husks. Was giving his family Australian accents racist against Australians?

Liam is... confusing. He was poorly written, as he seems almost like two separate characters. Does that make it racist? No. It means they wrote him poorly, he seemed to be unbelievable as a former crisis response operative when he can't handle a crisis. When he is being chilled out, he's fine, but he seems to drift from being chilled, to snide, to bitchy, to panicky. They just handled the character badly, I expect if there is a sequel, he'll be a side character but will probably turn out the better for it.

Anderson was a brilliant character, well written, well acted. He wasn't perfect, he was deeply flawed but gracious enough to accept when he was wrong. He gets to be Councillor but admits his inexperience with it and his struggles to deal politically with the other councillors. Bioware doesn't get praised for what a great character he was. In fact, they never seem to get praised by people, at least I never seem to see it.

At the moment, through the media and through overuse of the internet, we are ingrained to look for controversy. The next big thing to get up in arms about, but its just silly. The original trilogy had some truly outstanding characters, and it doesn't really matter whether they are genetically engineered, former corsairs, former spectre candidates, or kleptomaniacs. In fact, ethnicity doesn't come into it at all, and shouldn't.

If that were true no one would like Cora or Miranda. Arguably though Miranda became more human and less shallow by ME3, but point still stands in ME2 she was as shallow and as boring as you could get. 

it's totally not racist when people constantly keep comparing Liam to Jacob (such as "do you like Jacob or Liam"), solely on the criteria that they're black squadmates.

Yeah, well, everyone has a preference for one black person over another if your comparing the two in an objective scenario...which is what that is.

That is not racist. That is reality. Get over it. You don't see people complaining about comparing Cora VS Miranda as racist.

Why the double standard? Because society/government/media and a whole lot of people in-between love to hate on white people and be hypocritical about the whole "racist" thing.

Nah that's racist. If race/gender wasn't so important, why do white folks make it a constant subconscious to compare Liam to Jacob just because they're both black and male?

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"You don't see people complaining about comparing Cora VS Miranda as racist.
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Cora and Miranda are both white...

Am I being trolled...?  

"I don't like character x as a person, therefore they are terribly written."

The world according to BSN.

This is all I see from every single post in this thread.

It's a pretty lazy attempt at looking at your internal biases.

"I'm not racist, the characthers are just terribly written!"


As though they know the internal constrcuts of writing a characther.



Me disliking certain charathers doesn't mean they're inherently badly written or that the author failed.



I  HATE Miranda and   but that's solely because I don't like her as a person, not because of Bioware's writing capabilities.

Nah that's racist. If race/gender wasn't so important, why do white folks make it a constant subconscious to compare Liam to Jacob just because they're both black and male?

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"You don't see people complaining about comparing Cora VS Miranda as racist.
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Cora and Miranda are both white...

Am I being trolled...?  

Yeah, well, everyone has a preference for one black person over another if your comparing the two in an objective scenario...which is what that is.

That is not racist. That is reality. Get over it. You don't see people complaining about comparing Cora VS Miranda as racist.

Why the double standard? Because society/government/media and a whole lot of people in-between love to hate on white people and be hypocritical about the whole "racist" thing.

People dislike Jacob because of his writing, rapist father on loyalty mission (black man as rapist has unfortunate implications) and the cheating on a romanced FemShep and knocking up another woman (another unfortunate implicate because there's a stereotype that black men are cheaters)