[wordup] Virtual Ethnic Cleansing?

[Adam Shand]

What is interesting to me is that the "good guys" are represented in KKK
and skinhead costumes.  The fact that those are viewed as positive
images capable of luring in the youth is fascinating.  I obviously grew
up far to politically correct, even as a child I can't imagine being
lured by the "romance" of the KKK.

Adam.

Via: Morgan Likely <mrorange at spack.org>
From: http://www.adl.org/videogames/default.asp

Racist Groups Using Computer Gaming to Promote Violence Against Blacks,
Latinos and Jews. RULE

On Martin Luther King Day, Resistance Records, a distributor of racist,
The Title Screen of Ethnic Cleansing anti-Semitic "White Power" music
began to advertise Ethnic Cleansing, a CD-ROM based computer game whose
object is to kill "sub-humans" — i.e. Blacks and Latinos — and their
"masters," the Jews, who are portrayed as the personification of evil.
The ads said, "Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a virtual Race
War!" Resistance Records is owned by the National Alliance, the largest
and most active neo-Nazi organization in the United States

Patterned after popular mainstream video games such as Quake and Doom ,
the game turns racially motivated violence in "entertainment." Racists
and anti-Semites are clearly trying to spread their hate-filled vision
to a wider, computer-savvy, younger audience through the violent
body-strewn world of shoot-em-up computer games while hoping to make
some money along the way.

The premise of Ethnic Cleansing is that a city — clearly New York — has
been destroyed by gangs of "sub-humans" controlled by Jews who are lead
by the "end boss" lurking in the subterranean "Lair of the Beast." Plans
for world domination are seen in the subway, along with a map of
"problem" areas in the U.S. and a sign reading "Diversity, It's Good for
Jews."

The player (who can choose to dress Screen Shot of the game's
protagonist in KKK garb. Note: He is carrying a noose for lynching. in
KKK robes or as a Skinhead) roams the streets and subways murdering
"predatory sub-humans" and their Jewish "masters" thereby "saving" the
white world. During the game monkey and ape sounds are heard when Blacks
are killed, poncho-wearing Latinos say "I'll take a siesta now!" or "Ay
carumba!" while "Oy vey!" rings out when Jewish characters are killed.
The game has a high level of background detail and various National
Alliance signs and posters appear throughout while racist rock blares on
the soundtrack.

At the end, the player confronts the "end boss," a rocket
launcher-wielding Ariel Sharon, who hurls insults such as: "Oy vey! Can
you shoot no better than that?"; "We have destroyed your culture!"; and
"We silenced Henry Ford." When Sharon dies, he coughs out "Filthy White
dog, you have destroyed thousands of years of planning."

The National Alliance is advertising Ethnic Cleansing as the first in a
series of games to be produced by Resistance Records. The next release
will be Turner Diaries: The Game based on The Turner Diaries, by William
Pierce, the long time leader of the National Alliance. The Turner
Diaries describes a world wide race war in which white "Aryans" destroy
all non-whites and Jews with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
One of the most widely read and cited books on the far-right, it has
explicitly influenced, among others, The Order, the Aryan Republican
Army, The New Order and Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.

While the most sophisticated racist game available online, Ethnic
Cleansing is not unique.

Gary (Gerhard) Lauck , of Lincoln, Nebraska, (a.k.a. the "Farmbelt
Fuehrer,") has several anti-semitic "entertainment "video games on his
website under the heading "Nazi Computer-Spiele" or "Nazi Computer
Games. An image from the game SA-Mann from Gary Lauck's web site.

Most of these games are much simpler than Ethnic Cleansing but they
serve a similar purpose in that they allow players to interact in a
racist environment in which they can indulge their fantasies.

In addition, the "comedy" section of the Web site of the racist,
anti-Semitic World Church of the Creator includes racist jokes, comics
and media files, as well as downloadable racist games. Among these are
Aryan 3, Shoot the Blacks, NSDoom (NS is short for National Socialist),
and WPDoom (WP stands for White Power).