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Pokemon Black and White-Racist?

~TransformerRobot Jan 14, 2013 General Artist

[link] <Lenora, one of the only black characters in the games looks like your stereotypical mammy character.

[link] <Ghetis is LITERALLY half black and half white.

[link] <This is Lilligant, a Pokemon exclusive to the White versions, and it looks like a Southern Belle. Cottonee (a cotton based Pokemon) is exclusive to the Black versions.

Is Pokemon Black and White racist, or are these just coincidences?

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$dxd Jan 31, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

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~rainbowkitty777 Jan 30, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Only if you make a crapload of assumptions.

~MonkeydanceGuy Jan 30, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I sincerely hope you're trolling, otherwise you could easily be the most overly-sensitive person ever to grace the internet. I'd just like to point out that since you made all these "connections" and posted them here, you've unwittingly made yourself the most racist thing ever. Congrats.

~CodePurpleyedrawings Jan 28, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

Pokemon is not at all racist, and while the Japanese can be really really racist, this is not one of those times.

~MonkeydanceGuy Jan 30, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

"while the Japanese can be really really racist"
Really? Really guy? Did you just post that on a forum talking about racism?
I guess that's indirectly referring to some ethnicities who are never ever racist or prejudiced, perhaps that other one who are constantly racist and have a language built on racial slur?

~CodePurpleyedrawings Jan 30, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

No. Anybody can be racist. I get the first half of your reply. It was a poor choice of words.
Have you ever seen Japanese textbooks for learning english?

I'm not going to pretend that the Japanese are never, ever discriminated against if that's what you are suggesting, and like I said, anybody and everybody's racist. Asia has remaining ethnocentrism from their isolation centuries before, it's a bit more accepted, and not all japanese are racist. I'm not talking about japanese ethnically. I'm talking about Japanese culture.

~MonkeydanceGuy Jan 30, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'd offer you a shovel, but you seem to be digging that hole jolly well on your own.

*Hanimetion Jan 28, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

*facepalm* how can you be that ignorant?

Pokemon Black and White are named as such because of the concept of yin and yang, aka Black and White morality, which has nothing to do with race.

~NOKAPIplz Jan 25, 2013

It's racist if you take it out of context.

~EliroX904 Jan 18, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

Oh puh-lease, this is about as racist as when my boss insisted on my African-American co-worker working on Black Friday.

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