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Offline White Israelite

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Anti-semitism in video games?
« on: July 09, 2011, 07:00:58 PM »
I was playing LA Noire for the XBOX 360 which is a detective game based in the 40's and there seems to be a lot of plot on Jewish crime in the game, there are at least 3 Jewish criminals in the game and the hatred for Jews is very prevalent for this era in America. The game focuses on one Jewish man that runs a jewelery shop and shoots a competing store owner and you act as detective and the comments made are definitely anti Jewish. There is also the focus on the gangster Mickey Cohen who is also featured in the game and is involved in the morphine trade, here is a video to show some of the comments, do you think this is becoming an issue in video games?



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Re: Anti-semitism in video games?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2011, 07:03:24 PM »
No big deal Italians had to put up with Mafia movies for yrs
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Re: Anti-semitism in video games?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2011, 12:31:21 AM »
I at first agreed with mord...

But when I watched it and saw how Jewishness was brought up in the interrogation, and the use of yiddish words like goy, putz, etc... Then I think it started to enter some questionable territory. It does seem that antisemitism is a part of the game...

I don't play these types of games... It is partly because of this kind of stuff that I only play FPS (1st Person Shooters) games.

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Re: Anti-semitism in video games?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2011, 08:36:08 AM »
Organized Crime in the '40's like it or not included Jews. ie Meyer Lansky, Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, Meyer (Mickey) Cohen...... You have to remember these were immigrants if not 1st generation Americans and they spoke Yiddish. At least Mickey Cohen didn't play the victim and fold under pressure from that interrogator. THAT would've [censored] me off!  Also, a little off topic, but it seems that around the time of the interrogation, this game took lines directly out of the film "LA Confidential".
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Re: Anti-semitism in video games?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2011, 03:13:43 PM »
the game is also clearly anti Irish due to the fact there is an Irish police officer actually using the word "boyo"...or it's just a video game.
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Re: Anti-semitism in video games?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2011, 07:55:45 PM »
This is Islam's way of getting children and teens to dislike Jews!
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Re: Anti-semitism in video games?
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2011, 08:23:48 PM »
You are absolutely right, WI. Try and see any video game maker portraying Muslims as gangsters (even though most of them are).
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