The Daily Background

Well, this is sick. Newsweek reports:

Links to a bloody new Flash videogame called Border Patrol, whose object is to kill as many illegal immigrants as possible, are making the rounds through e-mail forwards. The game, which comes at a time when U.S. leaders are working to revive a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate, encourages players to kill targets such as a “Mexican nationalist,” “drug smuggler” and “breeder” (a pregnant woman with two small children) “at any cost.” When a target is killed, blood splatters on the screen. “It’s violent and unnecessarily hurtful,” says Jack Thompson, a lobbyist against violence in videogames. “We should use public-nuisance laws to shut down this game because it poses a clear and present danger to an entire class of people. Illegal immigration is a real problem, but this game only coarsens that debate.”

Well, I know a thing or two about Jack Thompson, and he happens to be a hypocrite and an enemy of freedom of speech, I do agree that this little flash game is unnecessarily hurtful and violent. Does that mean that it should be illegal (like Thompson wants)? No, I don’t advocate that. I think the game is an absolutely disgusting display of racism though.

I guess if anything, the existance of the game shows that racist extreme-right-wingers can use the internet, and do. But I suppose we already knew that from conservative blogs like Little Green Footballs (Wikipedia).

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