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honorman
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Posted 10/9/2003 9:47 AM (GMT -6)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031009/ap_on_re_us/ghettopoly

Blood Washed Heretic
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Posted 10/9/2003 10:12 AM (GMT -6)

It may be a bit overboard, especially if it really does degrade X and King...

That being said, I can't wait for Redneckopoly Flame2

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Hmmm...

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One Love
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Posted 10/9/2003 11:22 AM (GMT -6)

Oh, this is easy to fix.

Just email Mr. Chang suggesting the creation of a game called "Chinatown-opoly", complete with every stereotype of Chinese and Chinese American culture that you can think of. You know, drawing people of Chinese descent with exaggerated features and all that. With board pieces of ricshas, chopsticks, rice bowls, and the like.

...and then ask him to show that game to his parents and grandparents.

Perhaps maybe he'd think about some things.

Heh.

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honorman
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Posted 10/9/2003 12:00 PM (GMT -6)

M: I don't think that would stop someone like him...it would probably just give him new ideas. This is a lot like that new show on the "Spike" channel (channel for men) where they take Japanese game shows and have american announcers make fun of them. I guess it depends upon which side of the PC aisle you are on.
BUt it is his right to do such things. I mean, if you eliminate all making fun of people there would be no comics. I would be interested in how well it sells. Ten to one it sells well, particularly in the black community.

DLW
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Posted 10/9/2003 4:03 PM (GMT -6)

Seen the movie "Bamboozled" by Spike Lee?

Yes, I think it is wrong to take fun out of mocking other cultures, now I do make jokes about Mexicans here in Mexico, but that is with friends and I also make fun of Gringos a lot.

dlw

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Tigress
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Posted 10/10/2003 10:19 AM (GMT -6)

Something about this game seems really Satanic to me. The whole degradation of people living in the ghetto is so inhuman. I mean, maybe there's some truth to it, but mockery is a sin and Christians, at least, should be careful not to commit it. I don't like the idea of promoting something like this, especially to kids, who'd be the most likely to play with a game like this. I really think it only serves to increase the resentment people living in the ghetto might have towards those who don't. And it perpetuates stereotypes about people in the ghetto to those who don't live there. This just really does not sit well with me. I mean, I'm all for having a good sense of humor, and if a person from the ghetto can have a laugh about themselves with someone who's not from the ghetto, they have every right to do that. But, for anyone who's not a part of that particular culture, it's seems very out of line and cruel.

I mean, here in Minnesota people make fun of stereotypical Minnesotan ideosyncracies, and even if people from other states did that, it's fine. But, when you start making fun of a certain racial, socio-economic class of people in the way that this game seems to be doing, it doesn't seem like a very good idea. It's certainly not edifying.

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