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Ethnic Hate Video Games |
As
everybody knows, anything can be found on the Internet. We have
encyclopedias, dictionaries, up to the minute news, quizzes, cartoons and
so on. Though there are many good sources that are available on the
Internet, there are still many websites out there that promote hate and
violence. Lately there has been a steady rise in the number of ethnic hate
video games to be found on the web.
One of the most notorious ones that can be found on the net is called Ethnic Cleansing, a video game whose founders brag that they have created the most politically incorrect video game. The person who is playing the game can play a member of the Ku Klux Klan and they are able to run through a ghetto while shooting and killing African-Americans. Along the way there are many other minorities whom they are supposed to kill. They try to get into a subway system where Jews are hiding and kill them also. Their ultimate goal is to kill Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel. All while doing this, there is white supremacist music playing in the background. The site that is selling the software is a distributor of white supremacist music and the game is reaching a moderate audience; they claim a yearly sale of $1.5 million.
Also
while playing the game there is information available about the National
Alliance, a group that believes that for racial survival whites must live
in an exclusive white living space. The founder of the National Alliance,
William Pierce, defends the game also. The people who created this game
are relishing the spotlight that they are getting right now. The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) say that there isn’t a lot that can be done
to stop this terrible web site from reaching more viewers. The people who
created this software are exercising their first amendment right; this is
also the same reason that the government can’t ban the KKK or any other
supremacist group. The game is sold directly through the resistance web
site, so there is even less power left in the hands of people who want to
take it away. Even the software company doesn’t have direct involvement
in the game and they don’t support it but nothing can be done to take
this game away. The question here is, has our first amendment right gone
too far? People should not be allowed to create games attacking people of
different races, but hate laws aren’t even applicable to this heinous
game. The reason hate laws can’t be applied is because clicking a mouse
isn’t actually killing a person; it’s only a satire.
Another
example of ethnic hate games that are reaching a wide audience are the
Osama bin laden games and contests that have been splattered all over the
Internet since September 11. Since then, wherever you look there are games
in which the player is able to look for Osama bin laden and kill him.
these games that are available online are very violent games and now
people of the Islamic faith are being targeted. These people are being
discriminated against and these games have contributed to the violence
that has been inflicted on them.
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