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"Wolfenstein II" is a video-game about an alternative history where the Nazis have occupied the US. You play a resistance-fighter and it's your job to Make America Nazi-Free Again by killing lots of Nazis with all kinds of weapons.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/video-game-wolfenstein-ii-angers-neo-nazis-with-make-america-nazi-free-again-slogans/
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Apparently, a certain sub-group of folks got angry online with the game-maker, Bethesda Softworks, for its new product that thinks Nazis are bad. Many claimed they weren't angry about the anti-Nazi stance, per se, but rather that the game was tapping into liberal anger. And certainly it is political to co-opt President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, but Bethesda is hardly the first brand or person to play with the line made famous by the billionaire Republican.
But in the wake of the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia rally, where Nazis marched and chanted anti-Semitic slogans under the banner of "Uniting the Right," Nazism is now, apparently, a right vs. left debate.
So, people on Twitter got angry about a promo saying Nazis were bad. Here are a few collections of responses.
NutmegYankee
(16,200 posts)He's the protagonist of the series.
Mime-Is-Money
(34 posts)she works in the video game industry and her office is buzzing about this....in that anyone in the US that is offended is beyond help.
I loved the 90's PC Wolfenstein game. I'll see if I can pick this one up. I'm gonna be doin one thing and one thing only.....killin Nazis.
underpants
(182,844 posts)One of my favorite tiny little lines in a movie. So clever.
NutmegYankee
(16,200 posts)This game continues the timeline from that game.
canetoad
(17,171 posts)Return to Castle Wolfenstein in god mode. Never get tired of blasting Nazi zombies.
I should act my age.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)represent? A world war to get rid of them at one time as I recall so what is the big deal a ridding them their hate speech by law, now? Seems only logical.
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)because it is not protected. The first amendment does not protect fraud, slander, threats, incitement to criminal acts, or sedition, and Nazi speech is pretty much impossible without including those things.
freddyvh
(276 posts)who cares if they are pissed?
Baconator
(1,459 posts)I was slaughtering digital nazis years before the time of Trump and I think it goes back even farther.
NutmegYankee
(16,200 posts)Been playing these games since before I could drive.
Baconator
(1,459 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)Well, duh... (right? )
Gothmog
(145,374 posts)underpants
(182,844 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
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