“I had a very disturbing day where somehow I ended up on a white supremacist website,” he told me. This moment in BioShock Infinite can’t possibly help Levine’s standing with racists. I decapitated one man, tore open the chest of another, and clamped straight down on the jugular of a third. The giant emblem proclaiming “Protecting our Race” seems to be in the right place.ĭuring my battle with these racial purists, I took advantage of the brutal finishing moves available with the skyline hook (which is normally used for riding solo on the public transit rail). Where would you find such a statue? Unsurprisingly, it’s Columbia’s local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan … who dress in navy blue and have an occult flair. A painting in the dining room depicts Booth shooting a devil version of Lincoln. Later, while on the run from the authorities, an overhead speaker announces that the false shepherd is either a “Mulatto dwarf or a Frenchman with a missing left eye.” The voice also warns of the shame of letting your wives and daughters near this anarchist.ĭewitt eventually arrives at a safe house that has posters hanging up advertising a sermon with the message, “Until the Negro is equal, none of us are equal.” A painting of President Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery in the United States, sits in the other room.Ī nearby building has something different: A giant statue of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, stands in the lobby. I chose the racist, the police came and identified me (or Dewitt, rather) as the false prophet, I grabbed one of the men in blue’s special skyline hook weapons, and then killed the lot of them. The player is given the choice of whether to throw the ball at the couple or the asshole running the raffle. Oh, and also on the stage are cutouts of black people - caricatures made to look like monkeys stealing a diamond ring. They were presumably caught being an intimate couple, and the man pleads for people to spare the woman, claiming responsibility for the ordeal. It turns out the “prize” is a chance to throw the first pitch at a tied up black woman and white man. The unsavory man running the contest asks the crowd if his assistant “is not the prettiest young white woman you’ve ever seen?” She then lifts the curtain on stage. Some of those cutouts don’t look white, but it’s hard to tell.Īt one point Dewitt enters a raffle and has the winning ticket (which is actually a baseball). One challenge involves shooting cardboard cutouts of the “dirty, violent” Vox Populi resistance group as they slide across a model of the city. I make my way to a carnival that cleverly introduces the mechanics for shooting and special abilities (called vigors) as games of chance. The fact that everyone in the city is Caucasian is not a coincidence. Columbia appears to be quite the utopia in the sky … well, for white people, that is. The families, couples, and everyone else all seem quite happy. The city is majestic and beautiful, with all kinds of nooks and crannies to explore. The group weaves between buildings as the structures connect and disconnect from one another stores advertise their arrival on the hour. A barbershop quartet on a small airship tours the city singing a cover of “God Only Knows” from The Beach Boys (this musical time warp is supposedly explained later in the game). The sun is shining on Columbia, as it floats above the rain clouds pouring on the surface below.
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