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Apparently, Medieval-Themed Video Games ‘Legitimize’ ‘White Supremacy’
National Review Online ^
| July 22, 2015
| Katherine Tempf
Posted on 07/23/2015 7:24:05 AM PDT by C19fan
If you like playing medieval-themed video games, you might not be just some harmless nerd you might be a nerd who is also kind of a white supremacist. At least thats the opinion of Victoria Cooper, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leeds in England, who presented a paper titled Playing Politics: Exploring Nationalism and Conservatism in Fantasy Video Games at the International Medieval Congress earlier this month. The Middle Ages is a space where white supremacy is legitimized, Cooper said, according to an article on Medievalists.net. The maintenance of white privilege. The gamer community use historical facts to legitimize this kind of literacy.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: games; godsgravesglyphs; hypersensitivity; medieval; middleages; renaissance; video; videogames
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To: C19fan
I bow down to her supremacy!
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07/23/2015 11:20:41 AM PDT
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xp38
To: BitWielder1
Maybe because no one wants to see video games of various tribes hunting each other with pointy things. Depictions of the really primitive folks would likely have been deemed "racist".
Actually, though, there was a version of Age of Empires which had North American Native culture in it.
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07/23/2015 11:23:58 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Skooz
Like Risk? You’ll love Kingmaker..................
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07/23/2015 11:48:52 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Conan the Librarian; Red Badger; LonePalm; Skooz
If you can't find anyone to play against, you can download the PC version for free ...
http://www.old-games.com/download/5355/kingmaker
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07/23/2015 11:57:56 AM PDT
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BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
To: BlueLancer
Games on computers? What will they think of next?.....................
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07/23/2015 12:00:37 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
Note: this topic is from . Thanks C19fan.
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05/17/2019 10:24:50 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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