Sunday, February 24, 2008

racisim in Second Life


today while camping, I received the following message:


sheitanor Aichi: Ce soir valerie fais un exposer sur la supériorité de la race blanche ..... pour les curieux ca se passe ici http://slurl.com/secondlife/Adrift/21/129/35


(tonght valerie will do an exposition on the superiority of the white race... for the ones curious, th address is http://slurl.com/secondlife/Adrift/21/129/35)


I went there and the place is call "La France aux Francais" - France for the French, there were a bunch of people who have already gathered in protest, several admins were there as well. Voice chat was also going on but malbeureusement je comprend pas trop.


in the picture you see two things, first the sign of dumping nazi in the trash, second the group, france en couleur ( france in color). I think this event is a reminder that second life is not just a game, there is a person behind every avatar and there is little room for insult and hatred even in the virtual sphere.

1 comment:

Jim Morey said...

I guess racism is everywhere. Why would things be different in Second Life? Maybe we fool ourselves by projecting ourselves onto others we see in second life because we have much less information to go on when all we see are low detail avatars.... I'm glad you stumbled on this.