Why does Disco Elysium let you be racist?

<p>These are, of course, fair questions, especially considering the video game industry&rsquo;s especially poor track record of handling important issues, both in game and out. For example: just as I began my second playthrough of&nbsp;<em>Disco Elysium,</em>&nbsp;a video game company sponsored an event where members of the media could pretend to shoot actors dressed in stereotypical depictions of muslims (yes, really). It&rsquo;s bad enough when games like this always choose brown people with muslim-sounding names for villains, but they don&rsquo;t stop there. The video game hegemony, especially the notorious and mammoth&nbsp;<em>Call of Duty</em>&nbsp;franchise, maintain that there&rsquo;s nothing political about this choice. Video games, on the whole, often contain some of entertainment&rsquo;s plainest examples of racism while using a misunderstood doctrine of &ldquo;apoliticism&rdquo; to try to avoid having to confront that racism and its implications.</p> <p><a href="https://barberza.medium.com/why-does-disco-elysium-let-you-be-racist-ca75a625666c"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
Tags: Disco Elysiums