I appreciate the thoughtful response
I've never sat down and defined racism for myself to be honest. And to be clear I'm not white,I'm Latino, Peruvian. And I moved to Canada when I was 6 for what it's worth. I grew up with literally people of every race and religion.
I agree the colin kaep thing IS hypocritical but in fairness there's no human being that isn't hypocritical.
Like I've said I disagree with his politics and a lot of his world views.
But I also understood where he was coming from intellectually,most of the time.
When he says diversity for diversity sake the way I've understood it is he is saying you shouldn't feel obligated or consigned to having every race and religion in your product just because. Do it because it makes sense for your story.
I've never heard him complain about diversity in games. I've heard lavish praise on guerilla and games like mafia 3 for doing it right.
I've never heard him say we'll I can't relate to this character,I've never heard him upset about someone being cast in a white role.
Now just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Like I've said,I only started listening to them a few months ago. I only started listening to their gaming stuff. I don't follow him on twitter. So there may be something I'm missing.
It's easy to label someone something. Everybody is a cac or a c00n in this forum for example.
I see a witch hunt on colin on neogaf for every single thing he says.
So sometimes it's hard to separate the truth from over reactions and faux out rage.
I'm all ears though. I have no longterm connection to him. If someone can show me the racism I'm right there with anybody hating him.