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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
“How Did This Get Played?” Is normally a light-hearted podcast about bad/weird video games hosted by comedy writers Nick Wiger and Heather Anne Campbell. But when they invite Native-American Joey Clift on to discuss “Custer’s Revenge” things get serious.
If you don’t know the game it’s widely considered the worst ever made. It’s racist and grossly sexist. Joey calls out the hosts for their tokenism of inviting him to discuss the game. It results in a great discussion that is awkward but fruitful. I hope Joey comes back on to discuss a different game.
https://www.earwolf.com/episode/cust...-w-joey-clift/ |
Yeah it was awkward as hell but made for a really interesting discussion.
Joey said it was the fact that the first native person they brought on was for this awful game where you try and rape a native woman, AND it's the Thanksgiving episode to boot. Easy to see why he felt like he was being paraded out to speak for all native people about a game that doesn't really need any closer dissection.
You can tell they thought they were doing the "right" thing by getting a person with an inside perspective of how their racial minority is represented across media... but they clearly did a poor job of approaching it. Since they are evidently friends with Joey, they could have / should have brought him on for any generic game's episode and then use that as an opportunity to ask for his perspective on native representation.
Instead it certainly came across poorly.