A group is using a new video game to encourage white supremacy.
The game, “Ethnic Cleansing,” was created by the National Allianceand is currently being sold on the Web site of Resistance Records,owned by National Alliance Chairman William Pierce.
The object of the game is to kill all non-whites and Jews. Theplayers assume the roles of Ku Klux Klan members or part of a”skinhead” gang in an attempt to kill all minorities. The gameincludes repetitive derogatory comments and music with racist lyrics.It is intended for a young audience.
According to its Web site, the National Alliance wants to not onlymake a profit off of the game, but to “secure the existence for whitepeople.”
“The goal is, with most of the things we do with ResistanceRecords, is not necessarily to earn a profit,” National AllianceDeputy Membership Coordinator Billy Roper said to The Diamondback,the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park.
“Our primary goal is to get our message out there to young whitepeople who, for the most part, have been alienated by a culture thatdenies them a sense of identity, denies them a sense of culture.”
Student organizations on campus are outraged by the game.
“Anything that promotes hate and discrimination should not bepassed on the Internet where anyone can access it,” Tevia Schriebman,president of the Jewish Student Union, said.
Pierce said to ABC News that all video games contain violence.
“Our games are not for the purpose of sponsoring hatred,” he said.”They are to give white kids a sense of hope, a sense that they canfight back.”
The game costs $14.88 — the 14 represents the 14-word mantra ofwhite supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and afuture for white children,” and 88 is shorthand for “Heil Hitler,”Roper said to The Diamondback.
“I don’t think that such games and hate groups have a largefollowing, but as Sept. 11 showed us, it doesn’t take many people toinjure and kill multitudes of innocent victims,” Lawrence Baron,director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies, said.
Shirley Weber, professor of Africana studies on campus, saidsociety can’t ignore the forces of hate.
“They engulf young impressionable minds and they are recruitingyoung people,” she said. “Educators have a tremendous task to makesure students get the right knowledge on our history and are aware ofthe horror of the past and see the impact it had.”
