Nazis pissed that video-game about killing Nazis implicates that Nazis are bad people.

[DetlefK]

"Wolfenstein II" is a video-game about an alternative history where the Nazis have occupied the US. You play a resistance-fighter and it's your job to Make America Nazi-Free Again by killing lots of Nazis with all kinds of weapons.



https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/video-game-wolfenstein-ii-angers-neo-nazis-with-make-america-nazi-free-again-slogans/

Link to tweet

Apparently, a certain sub-group of folks got angry online with the game-maker, Bethesda Softworks, for its new product that thinks Nazis are bad. Many claimed they weren't angry about the anti-Nazi stance, per se, but rather that the game was tapping into liberal anger. And certainly it is political to co-opt President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, but Bethesda is hardly the first brand or person to play with the line made famous by the billionaire Republican.

But in the wake of the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia rally, where Nazis marched and chanted anti-Semitic slogans under the banner of "Uniting the Right," Nazism is now, apparently, a right vs. left debate.

So, people on Twitter got angry about a promo saying Nazis were bad. Here are a few collections of responses.

[NutmegYankee]

1. Rock on BJ Blazkowicz!

He's the protagonist of the series.

[Mime-Is-Money]

2. My wife and I were laughing about this yesterday...

she works in the video game industry and her office is buzzing about this....in that anyone in the US that is offended is beyond help.

I loved the 90's PC Wolfenstein game. I'll see if I can pick this one up. I'm gonna be doin one thing and one thing only.....killin Nazis.

[underpants]

10. Love the screen name

One of my favorite tiny little lines in a movie. So clever.

[NutmegYankee]

12. The prequel game, Wolfenstein: The New Order, I worth playing.

This game continues the timeline from that game.

[canetoad]

3. Rainy Saturday

Return to Castle Wolfenstein in god mode. Never get tired of blasting Nazi zombies.

I should act my age.

[Fred Sanders]

4. How many liberals would truly say they defend the hate speech of Nazis and all they

represent? A world war to get rid of them at one time as I recall so what is the big deal a ridding them their hate speech by law, now? Seems only logical.

[paulkienitz]

6. I do not defend Nazi speech

because it is not protected. The first amendment does not protect fraud, slander, threats, incitement to criminal acts, or sedition, and Nazi speech is pretty much impossible without including those things.

[freddyvh]

5. boo f-ing hoo

who cares if they are pissed?

[Baconator]

7. It's wolfenstein II...

I was slaughtering digital nazis years before the time of Trump and I think it goes back even farther.

[NutmegYankee]

13. Despite the name, it's like the 6th version to come out.

Been playing these games since before I could drive.

[Baconator]

15. 20ish years of games I think...

[yuiyoshida]

8. NAZI's are bad people?

Well, duh... (right? )

[Gothmog]

9. Boo Hoo

[underpants]

11. So sad for the sad Nazis.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. "Implies," not "implicates."

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[DetlefK]

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Hoisted, petard, etc.