“Call of Duty”: Social Justice Warfare
Well its been a long time coming, but the latest, action
packed, non-absurdly futuristic instalment of “Call of Duty” has arrived and it
is indeed an amazing game. I, myself, have become more and disillusioned with
the “Call of Duty” franchise purely because it was becoming more and more
absurd with not only exposition but also the settings, especially with the
latest installation “Infinite Warfare” (cmon wtf is that) pitching two
interplanetary armed forces attempting to hold control of the Solar Systems
precious resources. But thankfully there is a new “Call of Duty” with a finally
recognisable setting, The Second World War.
......women?
... and African Americans?
Now, before you confuse me for being a racist and a male
chauvinist, I have absolutely no issue with women or people of colour serving their
country. I honour those even as far back as the first world war who, even not
on the front lines of combat gave the ultimate sacrifice to serve their
country. One of Australia’s deadliest snipers in the first world war, Billy
Singh, was of Chinese Descent and we had over 50 Aboriginal/Torres Strait
Islanders serving at Gallipoli Alone ( in a time where they weren’t even considered
anything above flora/fauna) and without a hesitation in the world I absolutely
honour their service. But to put it simply, Sledgehammer games’ depiction of
the US beachhead in Normandy in 1944 with a female quarter master and an African
American Major issuing orders is simply wrong. This is even baring in mind that
this is set 20 years before “Mississippi
Burning”, a movie about deep set racist anti-negro attitudes, was set.
But, the inclusion of the above mentioned characters in
poignant roles of the game is nothing short of pandering to Social Justice in
today’s world. This war was, in the nations involved in the story of the game, mostly
a White Man’s war, and in a story with a specific historical setting that is
nothing to be ashamed of. In other theatres of WW2, there were masses of troops
of Japanese, Indian, Chinese, eastern and western Russian ethnicity and it
would make more sense to include
soldiers, airmen and seamen of these nationalities into the game as opposed to inventing
rubbish.
In addition to these characters there is a range of obscure calling cards to help make
your online profile stand out. In my mind it would make sense to have flags of
the nations involved in the conflict or current national flags, but there isn’t,
instead there are a set of striped flags, one of which is the rainbow flag,
thee universal symbol for the Alphabet soup movement (LGBTIQ+).
Now although it may seem like a petty and minor thing to
complain about, but this is signifying what lengths major companies are willing
to go to in order to avoid mass triggering and twitter condemnation. In short,
its little ways of warping a perspective of an historical event as to appease
and fall in line with trashy left wing media outlets (cough* Buzzfeed and
Triple J *cough*) and not to offend.
In short, its re writing history claiming a falsification as
fact, as well as pushing a bullshit agenda on a specific demographic.
Am I saying that there weren’t women involved in the war
effort? No. Women were involved in code breaking, home front efforts, production
and manufacturing as well as in many resistance fronts in most Nazi occupied
territories where the men were either fighting on their own fronts, imprisoned
or executed. One particular woman of note involved in bringing down the Nazi
regime is code breaker and Cryptanalyst Joan Clarke who worked along side Alan
Turing in breaking the German Enigma code, a story recently envisioned by the
2014 film “The Imitation Game”. Of course women played a vital role in supporting
the men overseas but they certainly weren’t on the front line on the Omaha
Beach.
Am I saying that African Americans didn’t serve their
country in the second world war? No, not at all. In fact one of the most
decorated divisions of the second world war was the all African American 332nd
Fighter Group, colloquially known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Fantastic pilots,
many of which worked on farms crop dusting, but they had to fight the ACTUAL
institutional racism in 1940’s America to even fight for their country on the
front lines. Even then, many were not allowed to fight on the ground in
infantry roles with many turning to aircraft given their professional abilities
with aircraft. The racist situation within America is even highlighted within
the dialogue in the game stating “let us
fight? Yeah they even let us die”. However were they present in command
roles amongst infantry? I highly doubt it.
What I’m saying is stop pushing this agenda with well known
history and putting this crap in our faces because you don’t think I’m aware of
it. I went to school, I studied Modern History for my HSC and I am well versed that
it wasn’t just white men involved in the conflict. What shits me to tears is
that these institutions are parading this fact as if we are blinded to the fact.
You can tell a story involving other ethnicities but you don’t have to jump up
and down shouting “ look how inclusive we are” and ram it down our throats and
make us accept it as gospel. On top of this it shits me that its not only the
pushing of this shit in general but its the intrusion of history in this
newfound culture of ‘anglo demonization’ for the sake of a modern political
agenda which acts in the name of inclusion but thrives off division.
Stop acting that I don’t care about the efforts of women and
non- whites. Stop acting that I have a white privilege to be able to ignore
these facts. Stop changing history and feeding a falsified story to the next
generations.
If i were to 100% believe Call of Duty's representation of the second world war, there were black American officers, half the German Wehrmacht were women and that young men were crushed by falling lootcrates on Omaha Beach. Sorry, but Hogan's Heroes is looking like a better historical authority.
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