Say the Wii comes out with a game called “Little Witch Hunter.” And in that game, you have a town where all of the pre-teen girls have turned into evil witches. But the transformation is not visible at all. To the naked eye, they just look like little anime girls.

To defeat the “witches” you must use the Wiimote to strip them naked, then insert a magic wand into their vaginas. Which, the game explains, on little witch girls is their “evil hole.” Each time you do this, the little “witch” moans with pleasure and says, “Thank you, mister!!! That was great!”

Now, I think it’s safe to say everyone in this thread would be made uncomfortable by that game.

But why? We’re not molesting girls! We’re defeating little witches! Context is everything!

And yet… that backstory doesn’t eliminate the creepiness of what we’re doing. Why? Because there is, in the real world, such a thing as child molestation. And there is such a thing as people who are aroused by fantasies that involve naked, violated children. You must take those social factors into account. The game was not made in a vaccuum. It was made in the real world.

This little clip of video game was not made in a vaccuum. It was made in a world where Africans, real Africans, are maimed and slaughtered by the tens of thousands. Sometimes by other Africans, too often by well-armed white men like the one portrayed in the trailer.

To let me play a computer simulation of a clean, muscular white man mowing down crowds of African savages CANNOT be dismissed with, “But they’re really ZOMBIES. It’s nothing!” any more than my aforementioned child molestation game can be written off as “but they’re WITCHES!”