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You can say the same thing about video games. We had a moral panic over those, too.



What video games can you name that promote White Supremacy like 8chan does?


Maybe those games where you control a Western European country in the middle ages and have to defend your civilization against religious, cultural and ethnic rivals?


Well there's always the 1971 HP 2100 minicomputer version of Oregon Trail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_g...

>Prior to the start of Rawitsch's history unit, Heinemann and Dillenberger let some students at their school play it to test; the students were enthusiastic about the game, staying late at school to play. The other teachers were not as interested, but did recommend changes to the game, particularly removing negative depictions of Native Americans as they were based more on Western movies and television than history, and could be problematic towards the several students with Native American ancestry at the schools.

But they partially addressed that in the 1974 MECC version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_g...

>He also added in more positive depictions of Native Americans, as his research indicated that many settlers received assistance from them along the trail. He placed The Oregon Trail into the organization's time-sharing network in 1975, where it could be accessed by schools across Minnesota.

Now the developer, Don Rawitsch, would like to create a version of the game from the Native American perspective.

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/it-s-a-white...

>But developers still field questions about the game’s stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans. During a recent gaming conference, Don Rawitsch, one of three aspiring teachers who developed The Oregon Trail, said he has dreams of reimagining the game with a Native American perspective.

>“If I were to create something like Oregon Trail today, I would create the Native American version,” he said during a panel discussion at the Game Developers Conference in March. “What would it be like on the other side of the wall, so to speak?”

But even the cowboys-and-indians-movie 1971 version of Oregon Trail was a far cry from 8chan.


Speaking of cowboys-and-indians, Custer's Revenge is a videogame that is closer to the way 8chan views the world.


GTA would fall into the league. Just a different team.

Of course no sane person takes it literally.


Sadly that leaves quite some, who do take it literally.




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