Border Patrol Game

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Posted by Laszlo on April 22, 2006 at 15:10:02

Wow, there's a whole lot of idiots all of a sudden wigging out about this "Border Patrol" Flash-based video game, calling it "racist", and even using the term "racist" in an attempt to get a court to supress it.

Well, I went and checked it out. I found it here. I don't know whether that's its actual home, or whether it's also hosted on other sites.

I'm looking at it, and so far I see very little, if anything, "racist" about it. I consider myself extremely sensitive to racism. And I don't see it here. On the contrary, I'm laughing my ass off through the entire 15 or so seconds of the rather poor-quality "game".

It's clearly just a satire of the entire subject matter around the illegal alien problem between Mexico and the U.S.. If anything, the objective is satire of people such as myself. The objective stated on the opening page of the game says:

"There is one simple objective to this game. Keep them out...at any cost!"

If this isn't a rather flagrant jab at folks like me, who believe this is a situation of Mexico invading the United States, then what is it?

The only thing "racist" about this game might be the skin tone of the characters in the game. But even that is rather obviously just in keeping with the majority ethnicity that happens to be in Mexico. At most, that's another jab at we U.S. folks who might see illegals as a particular race.

It's satire. It's poking fun at all sides of an extremely serious topic of debate. And it's fucking hilarious!

Get over it, morons!!!


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