Is DKC secretly racist?

[Anonymous No.3286893]

Let me preface this by admitting this topic is about 60% joke, ok?

Consider the name, DKC. There's three parts to it. First, "Donkey." What is a donkey? It's a pack animal, a work horse, a mule. I think most people today would view donkeys as subhuman beasts, just like western society used to view black people centuries ago.

Next, "Kong." This one should be obvious. It could easily be seen as a reference to the racist meme which compares black people to primates. It could be that the literal apes and monkeys you play as in the games are metaphorical black people.

So, what do you call a black person 300 years ago who works all the time for no compensation? A slave, of course. And where did slaves used to live? In the "country" -- the South. Specifically (as per the lyrics of the confederate anthem), "way down South, in Dixie."

That's right: Dixie. As in, Dixie Land, and not Dixie Kong, although that is quite an odd coincidence, isn't it? Both of the titles, "Donkey Kong Country," and "Dixie Land" have something in common: they both contain the names of a DKC-universe character, and they both refer to some land -- some place, some location.

America was built on slavery; in a sense, the US might rightly be labeled, "Slave Labor Country," which bears a similarity to DKC's own title in a way, doesn't it? If you're following me so far, perhaps you would agree that that's basically the hidden, real name of the game.

But that's just a theory. A racist theory.

But wait, there's more!

[Anonymous No.3286902]

YES

[Anonymous No.3286907]

[Anonymous No.3286910]

[Anonymous No.3286915]

>>3286907
Heh.

Neat.

[Anonymous No.3286916]

[Anonymous No.3286971]

>>3286893
In DKC1, the villain, K. Rool, stole Donkey's entire banana hoard. This is akin to the way white people essentially stole their own wealth from the hard work of slaves in America in the distant past.

In the even more distant past, when the white man initially arrived in Africa, he came by boat. Indeed, sea-faring beings of a different race invaded a foreign, uncivilized land and rounded up its assets for their own profits. That's exactly what happens in DKC.

Thus explains the rather odd association these games have with piratery, and why the main enemies are crocodile pirates. The crocodiles are a metaphor for white people and the pirate ships represent slave ships used by white people to ship slaves out of Africa, to America, in the mid-to-late first millennium, which is the time period in which the DKC franchise seems to be set.

That's all I got. If you liked this post be sure to like, favorite, comment, and subscribe for more questionably on-topic material and bad jokes (like this one).

[Anonymous No.3286975]

>America was built on slavery
You're a retard if you believe that at all.

[Anonymous No.3286986]

Slaves were a small fraction of the labor force. If by built on slavery you meant that slaves made a small handful of southern plantation families crazy rich then you'd be spot on.

[Anonymous No.3286990]

Posting just so someone else won't have to do it.

[Anonymous No.3287002]

>>3286986
A slave was about the cost of a car, on top of the price of feeding and housing one. Can you imagine how expensive it would be to afford a workforce strong enough to make a profit? It seems absurd that people think slavery was basically white people sitting around while black people did all the work.

[Anonymous No.3287026]

>>3286893
get a job

[Anonymous No.3287034]

>>3287026
Huh?

[Anonymous No.3287282]

The 40% of you that's not joking is an idiot.

[Anonymous No.3287335]

Summer has begun. Prepare for every board to be filled with people like OP who look for things that aren't really there in anything and everything. Every time someone you know comes back from university after taking liberal arts courses they become the most pretentious annoying motherfuckers.
OP basically put himself in debt taking those courses just so he could shitpost on /vr/ about how DKC is about slavery.

[Anonymous No.3287346]

>>3287335
The Summer 4chan post myth has been debunked for years, Moot has posted analytics showing there is no increase in traffic to 4chan or any of the boards within that time period.

[Anonymous No.3287353]

>>3287346
I know. They're people who came here anyway, but in the summer they have a lot more free time to stick around all day and be annoying.

[Anonymous No.3287376]

Trying to hard and streaching things to far, Op.

[Anonymous No.3287421]

>>3287335
The fact that you apparently believe I have, at any time in my life, even so much as attended college, let alone graduated from it -- I'll take that as a compliment.

That you seem to think my focus was on some SJW/gender studies nonsense and not English is disappointing, though.

Anyway for the rest of you guys I hope you have enjoyed reading this thread. If not, well then I hope it hasn't annoyed you too much. I'm not that big a history buff so maybe I over emphasized the impact that slavery had on forming the U.S.

[Anonymous No.3287435]

I want BuzzFeed to leave.