cross-posted from: https://goblin.band/notes/a121dz47s3oi4dgd
[Documentary] The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
Quoted from the video description:
“The blood on our Controllers” is an amateur documentary made to denounce the role of the video game industry in the normalization of the Palestinian genocide, through its close relation with the military industrial complex and the representation of Arab communities in games. It is a collaborative work between developers, artists, animators, and academicians to show how our games are doing wrong or right, what the game industry could be and what needs to be done for it to happen.
It’s time for those who have been the loudest for so long to try and learn to listen.
Speakers (in order of appearance): Hippolyte Caubet, Rami Ismail, Younès Rabii, Florent Maurin, Meghna Jayanth, Holly Nielsen, Rasheed Abueideh, Elodie Roblain, Florence Nichols Smith
I might have a look at it with my fiancé who’s not at all into gaming, but really invested in fighting against the palestinian genocide
Representation of Arabs in games… let me check my notes how the terrorists of the last 30 years looked like… Ah yeah makes sense that terrorists in games looked like that.
Next the only black US president is going to complain that the presidents are almost always portrayed as white?
I mean… “the terrorists” of the last 30 years are mostly white guys with AR-15s so… (https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/ is an aggregator that looks somewhat legit). And a good percentage are kids using daddy’s gun to bust a cap in Little Timmy during storytime so… I guess we also should be bringing back kid killing from Fallout 1 and 2?
But hey, say what you REALLY mean since the people in the back didn’t quite see your ass after that last comment.
I’ll Gladly check it out when I’m home. Hopefully the reception here is mature.
