The way you know they really, really pulled their punches is that Micah isn’t an insanely huge racist. He would be.
That said, I’d say good call to all of it on account of I don’t think the rockstar writing department has the chops to tackle racism in depth without yucking it up entirely
He is a racist though. Right in the beginning of the game he grumbles about having to bunk with “Bill Williamson and a bunch of darkies.” He also has camp interactions with every non-white gang member where he antagonises each of them by saying something racist but he’s still not as horrible as you’d expect.
Micah is such a cartoonishly massive asshole it contrasts wildly with all the other gang members who are all pretty well-rounded characters and makes you wonder why someone hasn’t shot him in the back and left him in a ditch already
he is but the entire fact he calls them darkies instead of n-words kind of proves my point. I mean like what, the misanthropic serial killer has objections to saying the N-Word on some sort of moral ground?
The way you know they really, really pulled their punches is that Micah isn’t an insanely huge racist. He would be.
That said, I’d say good call to all of it on account of I don’t think the rockstar writing department has the chops to tackle racism in depth without yucking it up entirely
He is a racist though. Right in the beginning of the game he grumbles about having to bunk with “Bill Williamson and a bunch of darkies.” He also has camp interactions with every non-white gang member where he antagonises each of them by saying something racist but he’s still not as horrible as you’d expect.
Micah is such a cartoonishly massive asshole it contrasts wildly with all the other gang members who are all pretty well-rounded characters and makes you wonder why someone hasn’t shot him in the back and left him in a ditch already
he is but the entire fact he calls them darkies instead of n-words kind of proves my point. I mean like what, the misanthropic serial killer has objections to saying the N-Word on some sort of moral ground?
Yeah, like I said, you definitely get the feeling Rockstar didn’t want to put full-fat 1800’s racism into their game