Not far fetched at all considering the Twitter backlash from certain people over the most recent game. Apparently they managed to miss the 30-year history of this series and how it was always about killing Nazis.
Wait, really? People got mad that the objective of the latest Wolfenstein game is to kill Nazis?! That’s like… basically all Wolfenstein ever was! Except, y’know, when the first one came out, a majority of Americans thought the Nazis were bad, that has shifted, I can believe if the Wolfenstein universe didn’t exist yet, and the original Wolfenstein came out today, it’d trigger a social media meltdown by mask-off “conservative” fascists and “marketplace of ideas” libs alike. The point of a “kill Nazis” game is to have a bad guy that absolutely everyone can agree is irredeemably evil and therefore not offensive to depict as such…
Yeep. Getting off Twitter when You-Know-Who bought it was a good decision on my part. By all accounts, that place is crank central.
Oh, wow, that is older than I thought. Assumed there’d been another new Wolfenstein game and new outrage, I don’t follow gaming news much. Also, it’s a bit alarming that in 2017 we were already seeing Americans stop believing that, y’know, Nazis are bad.
I haven’t really kept up with the Wolfenstein games, but that’s still the most recent one other than a couple of spinoffs in 2019.
That was around the time you started seeing the talking point that ackshually, we need to let the fascists speak because of and even just straight up whitewashing fascism (Richard Spencer on CNN, articles saying the new kind of fascist was far nicer than the old kind, etc.).
Yeah… looking back, we really should have known then that the US was starting down the path to fascism. And us tankies did. But all the liberals, in and out of the US, called us crazy fearmongerers calling anyone we don’t like a Nazi.
Not far fetched at all considering the Twitter backlash from certain people over the most recent game. Apparently they managed to miss the 30-year history of this series and how it was always about killing Nazis.
Wait, really? People got mad that the objective of the latest Wolfenstein game is to kill Nazis?! That’s like… basically all Wolfenstein ever was! Except, y’know, when the first one came out, a majority of Americans thought the Nazis were bad, that has shifted, I can believe if the Wolfenstein universe didn’t exist yet, and the original Wolfenstein came out today, it’d trigger a social media meltdown by mask-off “conservative” fascists and “marketplace of ideas” libs alike. The point of a “kill Nazis” game is to have a bad guy that absolutely everyone can agree is irredeemably evil and therefore not offensive to depict as such…
Yeep. Getting off Twitter when You-Know-Who bought it was a good decision on my part. By all accounts, that place is crank central.
I found this article documenting some examples of the response their #NoMoreNazis tweet got: https://www.mic.com/articles/185045/wolfenstein-ii-nazi-killing-backlash-reddit-twitter-kotakuinaction
Oh, wow, that is older than I thought. Assumed there’d been another new Wolfenstein game and new outrage, I don’t follow gaming news much. Also, it’s a bit alarming that in 2017 we were already seeing Americans stop believing that, y’know, Nazis are bad.
I haven’t really kept up with the Wolfenstein games, but that’s still the most recent one other than a couple of spinoffs in 2019.
That was around the time you started seeing the talking point that ackshually, we need to let the fascists speak because of
and even just straight up whitewashing fascism (Richard Spencer on CNN, articles saying the new kind of fascist was far nicer than the old kind, etc.).
Yeah… looking back, we really should have known then that the US was starting down the path to fascism. And us tankies did. But all the liberals, in and out of the US, called us crazy fearmongerers calling anyone we don’t like a Nazi.