After all, it is South Park…

Following the success of 2014 South Park: The Stick of Truth, The newly released South Park: The Fractured But Whole (you get the joke) is under fire due to its dark humor (no pun intended).

The problem comes from the character creation segment where you can adjust your difficulty where the easiest difficulty makes your character to have a lighter skin, and the hardest difficulty makes your character to have a darker skin

The in-game character Cartman will say “This will not affect combat, just every other aspect of your whole life”

This joke speaks true to the reality that we live in. Where people with darker skin tone tend to receive unequal treatment than those with lighter skin tone.

People are already responding to this humor with a sensitive sentiment saying that it worsens the harsh reality that we live in.

But i think that people are missing the point. Its essentially a joke.

South Park are known for its standing-near-a-cliff joke, insensitive remarks about an individual, race, etc.

And this joke is just that. its trying to show that we do have this problem about race, but we can still laugh about it. We shouldn’t take all things too seriously.

This isn’t the first time where people are using race as a joke, we’ve seen it in movies, tv shows, and any other media. It all ends up to how we see it.

and after all, its a South Park game. You know what you’ve signed up for.

What do you think? let me know in the comments

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