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Saturday, June 28, 2025
Europe is “too white”
In Europe, a number of smaller game studios have had good success in selling millions of copies of their games. These aren’t strictly “indie”, but often “AA”, instead of bigger companies “AAA” budgets and team sizes. It isn’t unusual for them to publish photos showing the whole team to celebrate a success, as it is obviously a lot easier to get 30 people on a team photo than 300. Now increasingly these photos have come under attack on social media, with comments that these teams are “too white”. First of all, of course, I must say that I find any phrase containing “too [skincolor]” extremely racist. I’m with Martin Luther King here, wishing that people shouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin.
But beyond that, it seems to me that these comments are mostly driven by complete ignorance. 14.4% of the US population is black, so on a photo of 30 people with a representative racial mix, you’d expect around 4 black people. But in Europe, less than 2% of the population is black. And half of the black population of Europe lives in France, while in many eastern European countries the percentage of black people is below 1%. It is completely possible to have a team of 30 Europeans that are fully inclusive and representative of the local population, and none of them is black.
Some European countries, like the UK, were heavily involved in the “triangle trade”, shipping black slaves from Africa to America, while not allowing black slaves in their home countries. Other European countries simply never dealt with slaves. No European country imported millions of black slaves from Africa. Accusing Europe of being “too white” is accusing them of not having committed that original sin of large scale slavery.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:28 AM Permanent Link
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Or of having highly restrictive immigration policies, perhaps? Also, I don't think the "I don't see color" argument has enjoyed much support anywhere this millennium, has it? I mean, the sixties were a long time ago...
A very large percentage of the population in most European countries is of migrant origin, for example 30% of Germans. They just aren't black, but mostly from Turkey, Syria, and other Middle East to North African countries.
And I can't understand why you would think that two wrongs make a right, and it would be okay to discriminate against people just because their skin is white. Frankly, the guilt trip that the elitist left of America has about people with black skin is somewhat ridiculous. People of all colors and religions have been discriminated against over the centuries. The idea that if we would just overly favor a black American minority, it would somehow make good on all the discrimination in the world is just silly. The only way to right discrimination is to totally abandon it.
And I can't understand why you would think that two wrongs make a right, and it would be okay to discriminate against people just because their skin is white. Frankly, the guilt trip that the elitist left of America has about people with black skin is somewhat ridiculous. People of all colors and religions have been discriminated against over the centuries. The idea that if we would just overly favor a black American minority, it would somehow make good on all the discrimination in the world is just silly. The only way to right discrimination is to totally abandon it.
Americans trying to pass off their baggage to other countries is always cringe inducing. You know I consider myself pretty left wing for an American but man there are times where I have to just concede some leftists in the US make us look dumb. Latinx comes to mind here.
One of my favorite recent game series, Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2, has faced criticism from morons on both the left and right. From the Left for not having diverse characters in the first game and from the Right for having a African character and an optional Gay romances in the second.
One of my favorite recent game series, Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2, has faced criticism from morons on both the left and right. From the Left for not having diverse characters in the first game and from the Right for having a African character and an optional Gay romances in the second.
It is not just based on demography of a country but also a cultural thing. Should we also call European football teams too black because some, like England and France, have more blacks than whites.
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