So there's this book called the Turner Diaries. It's from 1978 and it's about a bizarre alternate reality in which the American government takes all of the guns away from its citizens (never mind the legal issues here, the logistics alone would be insane) and so a bunch of militant white supremacists somehow take over California and then nuke all of the people who aren't white out of existence even though that's not really how nukes work. It's awful and it's been described as the "bible of the racist right" by the Southern Poverty Law Center which, yeah, speaking of terrible stereotypes sounds about right. It's been pretty influential in the White Power Movement and it's a clear influence on games like Ethnic Cleansing, in which you can play as as either a neo-nazi or a klansman and shoot a whole bunch of people that don't look just like you do until make your way to the - and this is honestly in the game - "Yiddish Control Center" and murder Ariel Sharon. Wow. As you can imagine, it is very popular among people who regularly require the services of the Southern Poverty Law Center. But if you're the more thoughtful sort of cartoonishly over-the-top racist, then maybe you'd prefer something that involves some strategy...
Eric Day co-hosts the Murderville Podcast at www.welcometomurderville.com
Give it a listen. Five minutes. Maybe you'll dig it. Maybe you'll hate it. But at least you'll have tried something new.
