![]() ![]() In fact, the release of Bioshock: Infinite could not have come at a better time for the politically aware, as "neo-confederates" were still in the politicos' mindset from the "incident" at CPAC. In fact, there is a scene where Booker DeWitt, the player's character, walks past two blacks chatting normally while they go about their work only to revert back to stereotypical "slave" talk the minute they see a white face. ![]() There are posters and murals that suggest the idea. #BIOSHOCK INFINITE RACISM MOVIE#In one of the many short videos (done in the style of movie newsreels) in the game, Comstock makes exactly the same argument in defense of slavery and Columbia's treatment of its black population. Lets remind ourselves that at CPAC, a Southern white man (one of a pair) at an event on race wondered aloud why Frederick Douglas would have to forgive his slave masters when they "gave him food and shelter." Don’t believe me? Go watch this video and see it with your own eyes. They believed their Prophet had led them away from "sodom" of America below. They wanted to keep the old ways where blacks were non-citizens meant to serve their white masters. You see Columbia's citizens and "Prophet Comstock" are neo-confederates who broke away from the US into the clouds to get away from post-Civil War Reconstruction America. And then it hit me: I had heard some of the words of the game's antagonist Father Comstock, said in a web video about a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) panel gone wrong last month. The Blaze article rang in my head during some of the more galling parts of the plot reveals. I was beginning my trek to the wonderous world of the flying city Columbia, the setting of Bioshock: Infinite, not soon after I read the piece. Of course, under my nom de’ musique Marty Dodge, I write game reviews. From what I had read about the plot I found this to be an odd conclusion and contrary to logic. It was news to me when I heard from a friend and author of this excellent piece that there was some worry on the American right that Bioshock: Infinite was anti-conservative. ![]()
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