
Another example would be boarder patrol, this game is just a person shooting a shotgun gun at mexican characters running across the boarder to what is portrayed as America. You see fat mexicans and i think the most controversial a pregnant mexican women. These images of the mexican people are portraying the stereotypes that the white nationalists have depicted as typical mexicans.
When you google "most racist video games" the top hit list is huge and many games ive grown up playing on there and it surprises me to what i find i used to play. Such as Pokemon, this game was created in japan and though most of it has no racial intention there are a Pokemon (characters) that are depicted in a racial way for example Jynx was based on a fashion style called yamanba from Japan. A decade ago a handful of Japanese girls started trying to emulate the looks of Hollywood starlets with blonde hair, light makeup, and even fake tans. This style, called Ganguro, further evolved into another style called yamanba. Yamanba ditches the semi-realistic coloring for an even more distorted look with brown skin, stark white makeup on the eyes and lips – problem is some yamanba sort of look like they are wearing blackface make-up ala Little Black Sambo, a series of books popular many years ago. Jynx has been re-colored purple for most of her (his?) Western appearances, but stays black in Japan. )(http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/87729/top-ten-unintentionally-racist-videogames/). This is somewhat minor to some of the video games that are available now but the fact that a game intended for young children have the consequences of starting the acceptability of racial thoughts. Though this game has no killing or genocide thoughts in it, the game still portrays the white nationalist ideology.
The very most disturbing game made that promotes genocide is a game called "Super Columbine Masssacure RPG! This game is a recreation of the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. The goal of this game is to kill students and teachers. The connection of this game and the white nationalist ideology is the lone wolf approach where individuals go out and create terror on their own for the good of whites. The shootings at Columbine was a national tragedy but it was created into a game.
Though video games can have a lot of educational purposes and also great enjoyment, they can also have many hidden ideologies behind them, or in even more rare cases have a down right obvious message of racial genocide

Do you think video games truly alter the way kids think? It may bring up a point they never thought of, that "Hey, why do I keep killing these people? Should I not like them?" Or do you think that they play with the intention to kill but only because that is how you win the game?
ReplyDeleteIt is sick that some of these games exist. As you have stated these are obviously racist games, but the question is how much are these games affecting today’s youth? If it is causing some problems with kids then the government or someone else needs try and stop this as much as they can.
ReplyDeleteAlso Pokemon is a game I am very familiar with since I played it a lot in my youth. Is the problem with Jynx intentional? Since this game was made by the Japanese, are they purposely trying to be racist? Because I don’t think they are. It wouldn’t make sense for them to cause a racial stir with their own race. I can see how it would be deemed racist, but I just don’t know if the creators of Pokemon would want to make fun of the Japanese. Also this problem is so subtle I doubt many would know about this racial problem. I would have had no idea Jynx was racist if it wasn’t for this informative blog post.