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Activision Responds to American Indian Boycott
JorgeDeLaCancha writes "As previously reported, the American Indian Development has begun a boycott of Activisions game GUN. Activision has quickly responded. From the article: 'Activision does not condone or advocate any of the atrocities that occurred in the American West during the 1800s. GUN was designed to reflect the harshness of life on the American frontier at that time.'"
At least they're not threatening to start a fucking holy war over a fucking newspaper cartoon. There are boycotts for good reasons and then there are boycotts because people want to control what you do and say. I think the native american boycott on this has some good reason behind it. Compare that to the Muslim boycott, wanting UN action against an entire country because some guys engaged in political satire, and some of those assholes threatening to kill the people behind it.
It's pretty knee jerk to call every boycott PC fascism in this country, but really, we should reserve denigrating boycotts to things that are really fucking ridiculous. The complaints by the Native Americans really aren't ridiculous when you actually read them and compare them to the fascist assholes in the Middle East. At least they're not issuing Fatwa's and death threats.
Imagine a game where you play a member of a white lynch squad in the postbellum south. Clearly, such a game would be gravely offensive and inappropriate.
What's the difference between these games? White Americans killed off the Native Americans far more thoroughly than they managed to do so to the African Americans? And that makes the horrible racism better or more acceptable?
I will be boycotting Activision as well.
Come on, everyone knows you should *triangle the wagons.
Don't you remember geometry?
Of course, you should be able to firgure that out on your own.
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