January 5, 2012 Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts Words Have Meaning Dammit I just read this post, a pretty well written one, talking about the trash lady from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He contends that the character in question is not racism. His is only correct on a technicality, but his reasoning has me boiling. See, he argues that racism requires intentionality. [These sentences have been removed until they can be corrected properly.] Then he goes too far. Several times he gives examples that show words have no meaning without intention, but he removes all context so that there could be no intention. | more
