It's ridiculous how much subtle politicalization filters into every little thing.
I got Call of Duty WW2. I'm killing Nazis that clearly want to kill me. The graphics, the story... it's all absolutely amazing when I think back to less than 30 years ago and the way Madden 1 was essentially some scrambled X's and O's on a 40 lb computer monitor. But I digress.
In the middle of that, during one of the transition story screens there's this little rant about how the Nazis are just regular guys and there are a lot of good Germans in the world. I don't remember all of it, but it threw me out of the narrative because it was just so out of place.
Then I'm reading a John Grisham book and the government employees (ICE, Homeland, etc.) are morons and the poor illegal immigrants who are being harassed by these mean old morons are the sympathetic figures.
Then I'm reading a story in some magazine where a Muslim immigrant felt bad about buying a stolen computer and returned it to the guy it originally belonged to. Cam buys a stolen laptop and he's a pariah. Random Islamic dude does and he's a symbol of everlasting peace.
I don't want all that nonsense.
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