European redditor talking about the most racist depiction of a black person you've ever seen in a game from 1995: "the concept of blackface hadn't yet been imported from America"
European redditor talking about the most racist depiction of a black person you've ever seen in a game from 1995: "the concept of blackface hadn't yet been imported from America"
How could've the poor, innocent French possibly have known racist caricatures of black people were bad in 1995? Let me tell you all about le western European cultural standards
Ubisoft doing a lazy palette swap to make these dudes gray in the released build of Rayman was them being super progressive and forward thinking for the time according to this guy lmao
With Ubisoft being French I assume this pirate character is a reference to the huge-lipped black pirate from Asterix, or perhaps pirate golliwogs are just some kind of rich French cultural tradition I'm unaware of