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There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

a.k.a. “Wah, wah, the brown girl is oppressing me because she dares talk about a serious issue that she noticed when she was 7″

This is going to be an entire breakdown of every racist piece of shit thing going on in botw and believe me, there’s a lot of it. In fact, my brain feels like it’s going to herniate through the base of my skull from how oblivious people are to this. Then again, what do I expect from a fandom that’s continually been exotifying the Gerudo and calling it “empowerment” for the last 2 years? This is the same fandom that jumped on Jim Sterling for giving botw a good score but not a good enough score, so apparently it’s littered with people who can’t stand anyone criticizing their favorite video game. 

Note, that the Gerudo have both “Middle Eastern/South Asian” and black coding, so the stereotypes for those two things will overlap in this analysis. (I am not black, so I won’t go too much into the anti-blackness here)

Also, I’m aware the creators of this game are Japanese, for those of you who come crying to me about how “they’re not white! they’re Japanese! they can’t be racist!!! *sad boner*” and if you honestly think that I’m as uneducated as you that I wouldn’t know the goddamn creators of the franchise I’ve been playing since I was seven, and you really think that Japanese people can’t be racist well…this conversation is entirely too advanced for you. 

And lastly, note that this is supposed to be a concise criticism (and it’s still so long, oops) so I will cover every topic, but I won’t go into every detail (ie. going into every line of dialogue from every NPC). 

It would probably be helpful to read this first, and perhaps go through my Gerudo tag.

Anyway, here we go.

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“People in power who see that there is a political advantage to disguising, or concealing, or massaging, or denying numbers, may choose to lie about it.

It’s happened before and it’s almost certainly happening now.

The influenza outbreak in Haskell County, KS was so severe that January, that the local doctor sent a telegram to Washington D.C. indicating the severity of the flu epidemic. That telegram was only a footnote in history and was ignored as the U.S. prepared to enter into WWI. Upon entering the war, we began recruiting troops from all over the country. Some of those troops came from Haskell County, KS and those troops were stationed in barracks at Fort Riley, KS. It was here that the Spring Wave of the Spanish Influenza began. Within a week, Fort Riley had hundreds of cases of influenza and the milder wave of the disease was moving along with the troops.

When the troops went to Europe to fight, people who had a milder form of the influenza continued to fight in the trenches and didn’t infect many people, while people with a more severe form of the disease were transported to troop hospitals where they had the chance to infect far more people. In this way, the wartime conditions rewarded the virus for making us sicker and killing more people. Over time, the virus mutated into a relentless killer.

After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested.

Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.

And 82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.

(Source here)

To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.

Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.