Editor's Note: The Daily Lobo does not endorse either "Ethnic Cleansing" the video game, or any of the values promoted within. It is important to inform the reader of some of the alarmingly successful propaganda being passed off as common entertainment.
These games are becoming more successful. According to www.albertweb.com, last year the video game industry generated $9.4 billion in sales, delivering more revenue than movies at the box office which grossed $8.4 billion. Ninety-two percent of those under 18 play electronic games.
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Attempting to capitalize on the vast popularity of computer video games - especially among youth - various special interest groups are coming up with games that promote their mode of thinking.
"Ethnic Cleansing," is one such game, released by the white-power record label Resistance Records in conjunction with The National Alliance, a white power organization. Advertised on their Web site, www.resistance.com, as the "most politically incorrect video game ever made," the game transforms racially-motivated violence into entertainment.
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The premise of "Ethnic Cleansing" is that gangs of so-called 'sub-humans' controlled by people of Jewish decent have destroyed a city. The player is then called upon by the formerly great-white nation to seize back power with lethal force.
The game is conducted in the first-person mode with the player having the option of acting as a militant skinhead or a Ku Klux Klan member adorned in white robes.
The player wanders around a highly detailed environment modeled after New York City and lays waste to whatever minority is standing in the way.
Built into the environment is a white-power soundtrack along with advertisements for The National Alliance.
The first level is largely filled with blacks and Hispanics. When the Hispanics are shot, they yell out, "Aye, Carumba!" and when they die they sigh, "I'll take a siesta now!"
When blacks are killed, sounds of screeching monkeys and apes are heard. After you kill the boss of the first level, you move to the subway to hunt the minorities' Jewish masters.
Plans for world domination are seen in the subway, along with a map of problem areas in the United States and a sign reading "Diversity, It's Good for Jews."
When people of Jewish decent are killed they let out an "Oy Vey!" that echoes through the subway. At the end, the leader of the Jewish people, found in the "Lair of the Beast," turns out to Ariel Sharon, who hurls such insults as "Oy Vey! Can you shoot no better than that?"
When the player eventually vanquishes Sharon he coughs out "Filthy white dog! You have destroyed thousands of years of planning!"
Resistance Records describes "Ethnic Cleansing" as "the first in a series," followed by the forthcoming, "Turner Diaries: The Game." The Turner Diaries, an apocalyptic white-power novel, describes a white underground resistance army that destroys the U.S. government and takes control of the world. Among others, the book is believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Both "Ethnic Cleansing" and "The Turner Diaries" were created by William Pierce.
"It's a violent game. . . But it's not atypical of video games generally, which tend to involve a lot of combat situations, a lot of shooting," Pierce said in an article appearing in The Diamondback on May 7.
The game is available on CD ROM, mailed from Resistance Records, or can be bought directly off the Web.
"The goal is, with most of the things we do with Resistance Records, is not necessarily to earn a profit," said Billy Roper, National Alliance Deputy Membership Coordinator. "Our primary goal is to get our message out there . . . to young white people who, for the most part, have been alienated by a culture that denies them a sense of identity, denies them a sense of culture."
