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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus > General Discussions > Topic Details SLUSTER. At least in Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus, I couldn't find a single character that wasn't cishet.

Like Loading Leave a comment Cancel reply. Another hint of the shared fate is that Billy shares his name with the young black girl he grows up with — also Billie. From what I can see, the treatment of black people was really irregular. Sign me up. There are no good answers.

The link above notes that some German commanders would immediately execute black prisoners upon capture. Wolfenstein never comes out and delivers a direct criticism of s race relations. Log in now. Edit 2. Already have a WordPress. And even that is about criticising the enemy with vague slogans, rather than identifying the subject position of the black individual in s America.

In gameplay terms, they are identical, but for the sake of lore, the article has been split into two: Jessie "Jess" Blazkowicz Zofia "Soph" Blazkowicz. As part of that whole white supremacist thing, the game explores Nazi antisemitism alongside the racial intolerance of s America, as well as invoking modern day race relations.

One reading is that New Colossus is finding parallels between this fictional Nazi America and our contemporary situation today. Like Like. And everyone was like oh shit and there was a massive ruckus. It stops the game from tripping over a terrifying cultural boundary.

There should be gay or trans people in the resistance. I have no expertise in these areas, but various Wikipedia pages suggest that gay communities were targeted by the Nazis, which included arrest, forced sterilization, and imprisonment in concentration camps — which are different to the death camps, mind.

Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. I mentioned last week that Grace never raises an ideological challenge against BJ, suggesting that perhaps the reason is that in New Colossus , black people are put to death alongside the Jews.

It only makes sense for there to be lgbt people fighting back. Her blackness is never a part of the conversation. Horton gets a platform to complain about capitalism, but Grace just talks about the horrors of the bomb. They are the main protagonists of Wolfenstein: Youngblood as the next generation of Resistance fighters against the Nazis.

Comment Reblog Subscribe Subscribed. Similarly, Wolfenstein never clarifies exactly what happens to the black and gay communities that get rounded up. I thought y'all hate nazis and fascists. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. Which just doesn't make sense to me.

Black people , on the other hand, were treated as an inferior race, and some mixed-race children were sterilized in the Rhineland, but they were not all arrested or sent to death camps. Wolfenstein II never really takes that next step in any meaningful way, but it also subsequently never has to deal with the problems of depicting a black Holocaust.

And nazis and fascists hate lgbt folk. Stop using our oppression as a metaphor for your own. Death is a Whale. They're also good friends with Abby, daughter of Grace Walker. There is only a minefield of offensiveness. Edit 1: I don't understand why I'm getting downvoted. June 19, December 8, James Tregonning.

Nobody wants to have an argument about weighing up the relative awfulnesses of the Holocaust and the slave trade, or deciding if one is an appropriate metaphor for exploring the other.