Kill Some Patriots in Battlefield Hardline

You can’t kill the bad guys, because terrorists and criminals have an overwhelming tendency to belong to religious and racial groups regarded as sacred by the liberal establishment. So who are you going to go after in video games if not the good guys? Tea Party patriots make excellent villains.

Gamers got their first look at Battlefield Hardline’s singleplayer campaign, from developer Visceral Games and publisher Electronic Arts, at the Gamescom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday…

The heroes of the game, Nick Mendoza and Marcus Boone, are of course not white guys — that would be politically incorrect. Their adversaries are white, conservative, and racist.

[Top villain Tony] Alpert can be heard ranting over the complex’s PA system, proclaiming himself a “one man island of armed sovereignty” and complaining about how “bilge… is pumped into young minds” by educators across “these once-united states” that has led to the “denigration, the humbling, the tearing down of everything that made this country great.”

Guards can also be heard complaining about how the gang used to associate with “scumbags” like Marcus, who is black, as well as “Mexicans” and “hippies.” While discussing the bounty placed on Mendoza’s head … one enemy remarks, “A quarter-million bucks for a Mexican? Sh**, man, I didn’t know they got so expensive.”

All of this could be interpreted as simply painting the enemies as a white-power criminal gang, the kind of hard-right boogeymen that progressives like to use as analogues for all conservatives, but a sequence later in the demonstration makes it clear the developer has a much more specific group in mind.

When finding evidence in a trailer that your captors are connected to the construction or sale of a missile, the player character remarks, “Looks like your old friends have gone way past bank robbery.” Marcus replies, “One black president and Tony completely lost his sh**,” as a Gadsden flag, a symbol of the Tea Party movement, is displayed prominently on the wall.

The game comes out of Sweden, not a land known for swarthy skin. But the whiter people are, the more politically correct brownie points they get for demonizing white people. Hating liberty doubles the brownie points: that’s what the Gadsden flag represents.

On a tip from Stormfax.