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by ryanobjc 4018 days ago
Don't deflect - lets talk only about civil war game. Forget documentaries they aren't part of the argument, they are just tossed in there for lazy argumentation sakes.

The issue is a game is trivially a propaganda piece and even if people are painting it as a historical thing, it is also a contemporary piece of art that speaks to people in different languages depending on who is listening.

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I was addressing the issue of dog whistle politics. Are you seriously saying that civil war games are being marketed intentionally to help people fantasize about successfully defending the institution of slavery? That seems a little like a paranoid conspiracy theory.