Is it me or are the imperials getting darker?RACE AND THE ELDER SCROLLS: SKYRIM

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Games and Culture are the same thing

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Social Progres

s is difficult to see

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Is there another? ........way?

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White researchers will have to admit

something about

themselves

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Ok, ok, wait

Epistemologies of Ignorance We’re ok with racism being somewhere else White Nationalists are not an “Other”

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The Aryans: Study of Indo-European Origins

“This is the truth underlying the panegyrics of the Germanists: the Nordics' superiority in physique fitted them to be the vehicles of a superior language.”

~Gordon Childe (1926)

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Skyrim – Origin

“Indeed, the history of the Nords is the history of humans in Tamriel; all the human races, with the exception of the Redguards, are descended from Nordic stock.”

~Imperial Geographical Society

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The Redguard

“When I started writing Redguard I really thought about how unique the black people of Tamriel were.”

~Michael Kirkbride

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Stormfront on The Redguard

“Even though TES has its own version, the Redguard,…When was the last time you saw Negroes creating self-sufficient communities in the wild?...The only creatures in Skyrim that resemble Negroes are the trolls.”

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On Redguard Features

“In previous games they looked African...Now they look like dark-skinned Europeans…with maybe an Arab Twist.”

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The Empire

“The Imperial Race's presets are a mix of mestizo's and mulattoes, with few whites. The empire opposes racism.”

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On Criticism of the Game Itself “there is already complaining that the Stormcloaks... Rebels under the command of the new High King fighting for an independent Skyrim.... Are racist and Nord Supremacist. :rofl Considering you can join them with any character race... That is idiotic.”

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ZOG and the Aldmeri Dominion

“Now these Thalmor....do they sound like a certain group of supremacists who want to undermine a certain other group, attempted to cheapen their God and want to set themselves up as the most powerful by having this other group destroy themselves......”

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The Coming Culture War “A Redguard in a questline…hinting that a possible future alliance between Nords and Redguards is strongly hinted. This parallels with real world politics in that blacks (Redguards) should ally with White Nationalists (Nords) to defeat the zionist/jewish stranglehold (Altmer)”

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What’s the Point?We have never resolved the social hierarchy

that created racism in the first place. If we can re-assemble whiteness, we can

engage that foundation again.Not from the inclusion of minority groups,

but how the majority group is changing.

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