Those charming fellows at YAF, who have nothing in common with the KKK or Nazis, are promoting a video game that is horrifyingly racist and violent.The game, Border Patrol, encourages the player to shoot Mexican immigrants dashing over the border. When the player shoots one of the immigrants, a blood splatter appears. The various targets for the player include a pregnant woman, a baby and man carrying a backpack.
If you don't kill enough of the illegal immigrants and the game greats you with a racist commentary "Alright Paco, got a green card?"
Emails to Michigan State University requesting comment have not been returned. Neither were emails to MSU Chicanos Y Latinos Unidos (CLU).
This is not the first time YAF has been involved in degrading immigrants. They first made headlines with a proposed "Catch An Illegal Immigrant" game in 2006. The game would have featured a person portraying an illegal immigrant, and encourage game players hunting the person down. The game was condemned by MSU officials, including President Lou Anna K Simon. It eventually was canceled.
**UPDATE** Kyle Bristow left a response to this post he said "My high score is 64/88."
88, the highest score possible in the game, is a Nazi slang for "Heil Hitler" H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. Source: Anti-Defamation League.
5 comments:
My high score is 64/88.
The best I could do was 54/88. They could make this game better by giving a choice of weapons.
They could also improve the game by registering the IP of anyone who plays it more than three times and adding it to the database the FBI keeps on domestic terrorists.
Unless, of course, this was a honeypot operation, much like certain child pornography sites that the government takes over and monitors in order to entrap molesters.
In that case, you naughty boys are both on candid camera ; )
The game isn't near as fun as the real thing...
Not that you'd know, or ever would.
Give up on the tough guy image, Kyle. It doesn't wash.
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