Milquetoast Racism

* See also Faux-American-Society
* See also Faux-Economy
* See also Levines_Faux-Religion
* See also The_Untermenschen
* See also Infinite BS
* See also Quantum_Hokem
== Milquetoast - Weak, suitable for invalids ( feeble, insipid, bland ) ==
Does this imply that some Minorities were defacto Slaves in Columbia ?
And the "Cattle" Workers of Fink's ( the other Untermenschen ) don't seem to have much say in Columbia either.
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Racism Being 'Normal' In Columbia ...
Think of having a game where the setting's society is NOT so obscured within the 'Slaughter Everyone on that Side' circumstances ( Where they are dead too fast to have much of any 'Exchange of Views' ). Have it be one with actions overtly expressing racism - it being normal and commonplace. 
Have Booker be shown a thorough Racist ( exposed via all those quips he spouts ) ?? No ?? He IS 'a man of his times', isn't he ? AND Elizabeth, with her 'Book Learning' ( particularly with 'books' supplied by Comstock and his racist minions ... ) the same ??? No ??? She too should have been steeped in common period mannerisms and opinions, which today are called 'Racist'. 
Imagine, the outcry if they mouthed even minorly-realistic racist comments and epithets in the Game ( Es ist Verboten !!! Declares the Political Correctness' god !!! ).
In some places/times in the World, it was perfectly acceptable to kill members of 'that other tribe' or any dangerous ethnic group/historic enemy ( is that 'racism' when you are killing them because they are 'The Enemy' ? ) Also, the Religionism ( Sectarianism ) similarly causing murderous conflict. Politics and Culturism and Philosophy ? - ~100 million people were murdered who resisting being made "Communist" last century.
Lord of The Rings -- The Heroes there could probably all say "The only good Orc is a dead Orc" - "Racism", No ? ( and "Goblins ? They ain't really People - They must not be allowed to multiply ..." )
Now the whole outside goals of a conflict may originate in 'racism' ( "We are the Superior race, and we deserve to rule them. Any who don't like it and resist we shall kill ..." etc ...). But Players are not given a chance to modify the whole setting of this game to change that - No chance to really pick their opponents ( Infinite BS was particularly bad with the Player not being able to selectively AVOID combat ).
Booker HAS TO KILL/MURDER - No Choice is given to You the Player - Kenny Levine made it so. (( Talk about 'social relevancy' ... That is actually as sick as those "racists", ain't it ? ))
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Hey !!! : Levine's Authentic Diversity ... THAT SHOULD mean 'Authentic Racism Within All That Diversity' - Despite what is taught these days : White People are NOT the only People who are Racist -- and to ignore that Fact is as big a fantasy as a floating city.
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WITNESS :
: A Ready-Made/Default disorderly Shanty Town ( Existing in a flying Eden/Ark ? ) "Very Realistic ..." NOT. ( It is utterly absurd - goes against the Anal Retentive Orderliness Fink generally shows ). Proper 'Era' Worker Housing is missing - The Whole Company Town type setup.
: What is the Logic of having detested Minorities/Foreigner types in a 'Clean' Sanctified Flying Ark Place ... ( except as some contrived caricature game props ? )
: Public Racially-based Execution as a popular Fair stunt ( the #77 lottery )
: Miscegenation (race mixing) Punishment is Stoning ? Historical 'Lynching' is in the game turned into an Extravaganza and being an Institutionalized Routine ( writer trivialization, weak tea )..
: 'Social Relevancy' to that Era's issues -- Yeah, But here this is done within a inept/nonsense Fantasyland. Tokenized/Lip-serviced for 'Show'/Pretend at a sixth-grade public school level ...
: Intellectual Fluff ( ex- pinky god cosmology ), whizzbang wrapper for selling to the ignorant masses (the Players) for a mediocre Shooter Game.
: Daisy Fitzroy mouths more racist language than any White person is allowed.
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Milque-Toast Racism :
How can Columbia possibly be racist/bigoted 'America' without you hearing the usual racists terms like : "Kr*ut", "C*lored", "W*p", "Fr*g", "H*be", "N*gger", "P*lock", "Inj*n", "Cr*cker", "J*p", "Sp*ck", "Ch*nk", "G*ok", "P*ckerwood" or "M*ck" 'flung about' even once ??? 
Oh yeah Kenny, your game is very real*stic ( and histor*c ) in its rac*sm !!! C*wardly.
Authentic Bullshittery"Authentic Bullshittery" - Reference to Levine's later gig spiel about using "Authentic Diversity" in games - which he kinda botched with all his constant use of stereotypes..
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So many Players no doubt yawned at Kennyboi's milque-toast (feeble) presentation of supposedly 'historic' social ills.
It seemed they were mere props you just ran past to get to the next firefight while listening to more of Elizabeth's prattling - THE PRIMARY GOAL FOR SO MANY PLAYERS BECAME : 'TO JUST GET THRU' THE GAME, AND 'BE DONE WITH IT'.
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Why Wasn't There More Anti-Semitism in Columbia ??? : 
It was, in that time's real world, a key issue for the Racist/Reactionary KKK types which Levine & Co used constantly as the model to represent their 'evil' Americanisms. ( KKK was also Anti-Catholic )
Wasn't it strange that many other cliche bigotries were present when that one was NOT ? It was as pervasive in that era as all the other bigotries implied in-game. Sorry, a vandalized 'Jewish Tailor' machine ( a rather minor slight, compared to having much more Overt evidence for other bigotries/oppression ) did not really serve ( not a proper blatant postured Dog & Pony show 'pointing it out' in-game ). That weak-tea token representation barely registered. ( How many Players these days know what "yid" is ? )
Did we even see ONE obvious 'Jew' in Columbia to potentially BE a target of the overt bigotry ? "Ethnic Diversity" was mouthed by Levine later when he was looking for a new job ( after Infinite BS and Irational was finished ). The overall general omission of even Milquetoast Bigotry against THIS ethnic group itself rebukes Levine loudly touting his previous games as supposedly containing that aspect.
Funny Thing : You find one of these machines IN the 'Fraternal Order of The Raven' building. ( The Biggest Bigoty-est Bigots in Columbia ... )
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Detested Minorities in The Holy Ark :
The Biblical "Ark" was meant to preserve 'what was good' :
It is Strange that with all the negative attitudes/beliefs given power in the Columbia Failtopian Society, that it is somehow logical to have present IN Columbia all those members of the era's white-racist-detested groups ( Blacks, Irish, Chinese, etc ... ). You would think those would all be EXCLUDED as contamination of the pureness intended for the Comstock White Paradise. 
(( Simple reason : If they weren't there, then the game's "Milquetoast Racism" Milquetoast : a term implying weakly made ( like for food ), and intended for invalids - for sickly people who have weak stomachs. could not easily be pointed out. Nobody could get 'stoned' for miscegenation, nobody could be shown as servile, no downtrodden immigrant-class people would be there to be exploited, no 'good' rebellious liberal people who didn't like the status quo would need to exist - ONLY ASSERTIVE WHITES who would have simply killed the tyrannical Comstock, and built a bland genteel/confrontationless/strifeless paradise . ))
New Term - Infinitely Contrived ( A weak Milquetoast writing : which seems done simply to make a buck. $$$ )
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Allegation Seen Somewhere About Infinite BS :
The release of "BioShock Infinite" had to be delayed ( the last delay of an Announced Release Date ? ) due to various people seeing it as being racist because it was set in a fictional old-fashioned world where slavery existed, and the majority of the slaves/serfs/servants/under-class happened to originally be black. Even though the protagonist was fighting to help the 'slave' people, this was still seen to be "racist". That caused the game to be delayed, in order to decide if the company wanted it to appear to be discrimination, or to make modifications. The 'racism' portrayed generally was what is called 'milque-toast' - weak, hardly justifying the fanfare of the game denouncing 'ebil' American culture circa 1900.
(( Possibly just one of many things which caused "delay"?? ))
The presentation and treatment of the 'under-class' are rather tepid. It had little potential for 'outrage', which might have distracted the Player from their 'WHERES THE NEXT THING TO KILL" playing mode.
Instances where the Player had the option to directly intervene in any 'racist' situations were largely removed. Things like 'You don't want your daughter to marry an Irish' was just SOOOO 'risqué', No ? Laughable.
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Would have been nice to have a few alternate Options in those canned plot sequences ( but then they already had enough trouble keeping together the linear plot ).
Boy, didn't someone go to alot of trouble there in Columbia to create those stage props for this ? - Like a whole 2nd grade class worked for a whole month on it -- I suppose These Miscegenation Punishment things happen all the time there in Columbia, so they are ready to trot out this particular stage setting when needed (at the Fair) ??? 
What else ? Imagine what they might have as props there IF they had caught a 'homosexual' or a 'jew' ... ( Missed opportunities of having such appropriate Props seen sitting back behind the current stage 'setup'. )
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Where's the Hanging Tree ? ( For mid-week casual racialism executions ... )
(( Again, this is part of the dim 'historic' world put together by these gamewriters, who had to come up with a safe 'Shocking' scene to illustrate their bizarre take on past American society. If you are going to show the implied racism/violence, then don't warp it out of resemblance to what really happened. Such "punishments" were really done in the middle of the night, often by hooded figures so that the participants could pretend that they were civilized people the rest of the time publicly.
To have such done in public, and in front of women, that is a DEMENTEDLY IGNORANT departure from anything at that time. It makes one wholly question all the 'historic' claims/knowledge/sincerity of the writers/developers seen in all those endless promotional interviews. Such alluding "it had to be exaggerated to make a point to Players of today" is only weak and ethically impoverished, as this imagery is no more than feeble watered-down distortions about the times the game claims it allegedly portrays. (( It is really quite Sad and Shameful to see this kind of lazy historic perversion written into a game ))
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Kinetoscope - "A Fun Day At A Lynching" :
If they have regular 'Public Stonings' at Fairs in Columbia, then certainly Lynching would be another popular offering ( Remember that Police States have to terrorize the lower classes into obedience ).
To continue the milque-toast qualities of Kenny's 'realism', it probably would have to be made obvious it was an IrishmanHistorically, there were many Lynchings of Whites in the US. being lynched to make it 'less offensive' to the Player's sensibilities (( So it would not be so off-putting from the popular activities of disemboweling, shooting, and blowing up humans which are done in the 'rest of the game'. *irony mode off* )).
Instructive ...
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IDEA : You might also have Public Executions Roman-style with Songbird tearing ordinary criminals apart in an Arena. ( Turn that into a lottery game (with PRIZES !!!) - Maybe with all those Tickets they had millions of in the game. )
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Columbia has virtually nothing to do with American ANYTHING - THIS FACT is so easily demonstrated.
AND Sorry Levine, Exaggeration to 'make a point' is basically called LYING ( and patting yourself on the back for it, THAT is even worse )..
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OF THE WHITES, BY THE WHITE, FOR THE WHITES :
OMG!!! EXCLUSION. HATEFUL RACISM !!!! -- Then Why The Hell Are All Those Minorities There In Holy Columbia ?????
Such a SteamPunky Fantasy Place Coulda done 'The Robot Thing' element far more. ( No Need for those detested Minorities )
But then, the gamemakers don't THEN have the opportunity to portray all those trendy 'Social Ill Denunciations' to make believe they offered some kind of 'Relevancy' in the game story (( AND even then it is so Weak and Obscured by the dozen other 'oh how terrible' issues they crammed into the game. 'Relevancy' - One hopes the next game is not poisoned with how the mentality has warped since ~2013. ))
All this strange over-overt Racism-Implying stuff in the game. ( Besides the Hugification so the hustled through Players have a chance to notice the posturings. )
But WHY WOULD IMPURE UNTERMENSCHEN IMMIGRANTS AND SUCH LOWER BEINGS *THEN* BE ALLOWED TO CONTAMINATE THE HOLY FLOATING EDEN/ARK ????
'Out of Sight' serfs/slaves might've made sense IF 'The Elect' folk did not have to even see them.
The whole early concept 'class warfare' (dat evil america) bullshit theme is now in the published game globbed together with half a dozen other themes -- churned together until NONE of them make sense any more.
It is NOT Clever, just a half-assed un-clever hacked-together mess. ( Sub-Par for anything called "BioShock" ) 
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Early game Prop - to prove that Columbia (and America) are full of 'Evil Racists' and 'Bigots' ( This was before the writers changed the game to prove that Columbia and America was all full of Religious Crazies and Cultists - as well as Racists ).
What I don't understand is : If these WASP "WASP" - White Anglo Saxon Protestant racist/bigots didn't like immigrants/minorities/lower-class Then why even need this >>> - Just have a sign : "No Blacks, Dogs or Irish need Apply" for applicants to populate their "New Eden/Ark' . (( Were the gamewriters too cowardly to portray something as REAL as That ??????? Might Offend in their HISTORICAL Representation in today's 'Easily Offended' Culture ??? ))
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Funny thought, that during the Progressive Roosevelt Depression, there was a similar sentiment in America.
Isn't it rather ludicrous that Racist Columbia 'could even consider' allowing any such 'Open Immigration' ???
Strange thought also : That you see in the game All the types of supposedly 'hated' and detested people there BEING IN HOLY PURE COLUMBIA !!!
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Why is a Detested and Untrusted minority allowed to run such an important business ?
Later, after the games First Dimension FlipSeen in a Kinetoscope, Non-White Chen Lin is now NOT KILLED (and "Released "). Reason : Chen Lin supposedly now Married the Fink Security Chief's WHITE Sister. This after THAT blatant Stoning Scene which demonstrates Columbia society being against Interracial Marriage/Relations. 
(( Makes you wonder who oversaw the plot/story for this game, and if they were lax in 'putting out memos' to the gamewriters about keeping the various themes straight. ))
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== NOT Highlighted IN GAME ==
OMG OMG, Anti-Semitism !!!!
This ( used in-game modified into an O M G !!! defaced/vandalized state - "yid" scrawled on it) is a rather token representative of that actual widespread prejudice in America ( and a predjudice not just by 'White' people ). The term for this kind of weak token presentation is 'Paying it Lip Service' ( And no, for you younguns, that is not a reference to something you saw in a 'Prince' Music Video ).
Actually, WHY would the 'White People' running Columbia build such a vending machine, when it expressed an identity they detested ?? "Fritz the Mechanical Tailor" might've been better appropriate ( Much of America had a high regard for Germany in the early part of the 20th century ).
This is just some attempt to hint at actual social issues WITHOUT the balls to show what real anti-semitism was like in that time -- Like having a 'Beat the Jew' (Pop-a-Mole) game at the Fair ( or 'Pogrom-Fest' as a yearly holiday expounding driving out of "the detested jew" ). See, THAT would be TOO NOTICEABLE/OVERT/CONTRTOVERSIAL. 
General lack of Anti-semitism in Infinite BS : Perhaps was "Too Close To Home" for Senor Levine ? Perhaps : that by including it, it may lead to the Discussion about Jews being as Racist as anyone else(?), AND pointing out that THEY were also not considered White ??? It just seems odd, when Levine's strange vision of America 'ragged on' every other cliche 'evil' trait 1900 American Whites supposedly had, but THAT ONE gets strangely omitted. 
Flawed Selective Denunciation. Cowardly. Seriously, leaving out Antisemitism ? Which was as historic as any of the other 'issues' ... ( The time period is 'right in the middle of' massive jewish immigration from Eastern Europe. ) IT Being TOO CONTROVERSIAL ??? An untouchable subject ??? "Out of sight, out of mind" ???? - That is VERY Cowardly. Hypocritical ? And NO, what little shit was there (OMG "Yid" !!!!!!! ) was miniscule when compared to the 'IN YOUR FACE' applied/shoveled_on of the other selected racisms. 
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Absurd measures by the "Socially-Ills Aware Progressives", as if it could be kept secret from the Police State, and these Un-mutuals then (long previously) facing the Baseballs at the Fair Raffle.
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Why is Chen Lin Green ? Those soldiers we had killed immediately before the Dimension Jump were dead too, but when we see them writhing with nosebleedsNosebleeds supposedly indicating BRAIN DAMAGE from 'merging' with their dead selves in another dimension., THEY are not Green. Is this some strange Racist Twist ? Chen Lin was dead and now is alive ( but is seeing things which aren't there ). 
All rather strange, this Quantumz Stuff.
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Just because they made it outa That Columbia Fair Stoning Scene, They are now somehow SAFE ???
This is the kind of bizarre stuff you find in some of these games and in the brains of ditzy writers.
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Faux Shantytown (ClicheVille)
BigGraffiti.jpg|Seems Untidyness/Defacement Fink would not allow
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HowTouching.jpg|But with All that Mega-Production ??? ( all the 'seconds' could be knee deep in )
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BigSignz.jpg
Cominwitagun.jpg|SORRY THIS SIGN JUST ISNT *BIG* ENUF !!!!
CottonCandyRation.jpg
ThisIsFire_Right.jpg|The Burning Barrel To Keep Warm
AutismMuch66.jpg|Elizabeth Says : "They Must Be Poor, Because they Live With Shit All Around Them" 
PoorPeople1.jpg|White Kid : Must Be A Racist ...
Infestation77.jpg
ImbecileScene.jpg|Denied growing their own food ...
DinnerTime.jpg|Forced to eat vermin
LookinAgain.jpg|Sewage Everwhere
NeedSewers.jpg|Open Sewers
JailCells.jpg|Jail is the future of so many
ClicheMuch2.jpg|Chaingangs were Finks Solution for "The Lazy"
PraizDeLawd.jpg|If you are going to represent Blacks in your portrayal of Racism, at least do the skin pigmentation properly
SinclairVisited.jpg|Awful good supply of 'poor persons' Booze left unprotected. 
ClicheTown.jpg|I guess poor people like gianourmous oversized signs too.
ShantyTown779.jpg|Drunkenness, the resort ...
Yummmm.jpg|Roasting rats - a bit overcooked is no problem ...
Cannibalism : The Answer ?? ( For Whom ?? )
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Yes, Ryan had his little Museum in Ryan Amusements, but those were small displays.
Big displays of Positive Things (The Great Chain, etc ...) was the way it was done in Rapture.
Comstock must have been really insecure. (( Was Levine & Co insecure about Players even looking to see the story stuff, that it had to be this blatantly Pushed in the Players Face ?? ))
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Of course, in the Police State of Columbia, the minorities would NEVER have their Lockers inspected - RIGHT ?????
There is a SERIOUS Disconnect of logic between the story world and so many of the game's writers.
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Chili Peppers might make sense for Servile Crowd Disbursement (Short of Cattle Damage ...) 
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