Last week Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal had some rather interesting comments regarding his feelings towards the trailer for Resident Evil 5. In the week after, we have heard many takes on this, from those who adamantly stand behind Croal’s argument to those who are strongly opposed. Even our own Allison chimed in on the matter. Now it’s Adam Sessler’s turn, and much to what will surely be shock to some, Sessler agrees with N’Gai.

I’ve stayed out of this entire argument for a reason, but since it doesn’t look like it’s going away… what the hell — I don’t see it. I’ve watched that trailer more times than I should, and I don’t see the imagery of the Africans (it has been confirmed as Africa), pre-virus, as being portrayed as somehow inhuman, as N’Gai suggested. I saw a white man walking through an African villiage, while the locals went about their day around him.

I never finished reading N’Gai’s comments, to be truthful. Once the comparison of RE5’s trailer to the holocaust was made, I closed my browser window and dusted my hands of N’Gai Croal. It just astonishes me that someone so articulate and intelligent would allow himself to create such a miscomparison between the imaginary actions of a fictional protagonist and a very real event that millions died directly because of.

All I am going to allow myself to say is that I found it encouraging that seemingly so few people saw the imagery. It says, to me, that we are starting to move beyond seeing people for what color they are, and bringing these kinds of arguments up only breathe a small bit of life into a dying prejudice.

You can watch Adam’s comments in higher resolution below:

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