{"id":15370,"date":"2012-03-16T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2012-03-16T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:05:01","slug":"experienced-pointsthe-racism-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15370","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points:The Racism Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/brown_hair.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='brown_hair.jpg' title='brown_hair.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\nFrom this week&#8217;s article: &#8220;In the past I&#8217;ve argued that that we could use more diversity in games. We have a truly shocking, perhaps even an embarrassing number of white male protagonists in this hobby. I&#8217;m sure most of us have seen that one image floating around the internet, showing a grid of pasty, unshaven protagonists from the last few years. Note how this is a list of white guys with short brown hair and stubble. If we open it up to other hair colors the list gets bigger, and if we include the long-haired guys then we end up with an army of thirty-something white dudes. [&#8230;]This is not what&#8217;s pissing me off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I titled the article with &#8220;racism&#8221;, but it&#8217;s actually a more generalized rant about lack of diversity and who gets blamed for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/9489-The-Racism-Blame-Game\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this week&#8217;s article: &#8220;In the past I&#8217;ve argued that that we could use more diversity in games. We have a truly shocking, perhaps even an embarrassing number of white male protagonists in this hobby. I&#8217;m sure most of us have seen that one image floating around the internet, showing a grid of pasty, unshaven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}