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3''Ethnic Cleansing'' is a 2002 FirstPersonShooter developed and published by Resistance Records, a record label owned by the white supremacist/neo-Nazi group National Alliance. Without even seeing it, one can probably make an educated guess as to its content just from that description, and not be that far off.
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5In this game, you play as a Nazi skinhead or a Klansman who goes on a rampage through the ghetto and the subway, murdering black GangBangers (who [[RefugeInAudacity make monkey and ape noises]]), Latinos (who are dressed like {{bandito}}s and say "I need to take a siesta" when shot), and Jews (who are dressed like Hasidim incarnate and shout "oy vey!" when shot). Boss battles include fights against the "Big Nig" (yes, he's actually called that) and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon Ariel Sharon]], who leads a plot for Jewish world domination.
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7[[SincerityMode Yeah. It's that kind of game.]] It indulges in [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]] racial stereotypes as a means of spreading the message of its developers... which is really the only thing noteworthy about it, as much of its gameplay content is rather rough around the edges, to say the least.
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9In 2003, Resistance Records released a SpiritualSuccessor called ''White Law'', in which one plays as a white cop who [[GoingPostal goes postal]] after multiculturalism turns his city into a {{Gangsterland}}. They followed this up with ''ZOG's Nightmare 1'' and ''2'' [[note]]For those of you unfamiliar with racist slang, "ZOG" is short for "Zionist Occupied Government", i.e. a country that antisemites believe is overrun or controlled by Jews.[[/note]], in which you "take America back" from Jewish domination.
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11For the tabletop equivalent (in terms of both content and quality), see ''TabletopGame/RacialHolyWar''. For other games created by White supremacists and Neo-Nazis where you must exterminate the "lesser races", albeit in a [[FinalSolution greater scale]], see ''VideoGame/KZManager''. There is also ''VideoGame/MemberTheAlamo'', a game with similar far right themes but tries to hide them in a...bizarre manner.
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16* ArtificialStupidity: The AI for enemies isn't programmed beyond "just stand out in the open, move very slightly and shoot". The enemies make almost no effort to avoid your shots at all.
17* AuthorTract: [[MightyWhitey Whites good]], [[AlwaysChaoticEvil non-whites and Jews evil]], [[ThoseWackyNazis Heil Hitler]].
18* BigBad: Ariel Sharon is the closest thing the game has to one.
19* BlatantLies: The stock audio of apes in the first game is advertised as having been "recorded live using real negroes."
20* CaptainErsatz[=/=]HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Or their version of it--one of the selectable player characters is White Will, who resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing Oklahoma City Bomber.]]
21* DamnYouMuscleMemory: While pretty much every other first person shooter on PC uses the standard WASD keys for movement by the early 2000s, ''Ethnic Cleansing'' inexplicably use the SZXC keys for movement by default. And the keyboard configuration menu often fails to work.
22* EasterEgg: A speech by National Alliance founder William Luther Pierce is hidden in the first level.
23* EqualOpportunityEvil: This being a white supremacist game, being equal opportunity is what makes them evil in the first place; a poster seen in the second level reads "Diversity -- it's good for Jews!" The developers then made ''White Law'', which is an AuthorTract railing against multiculturalism and race-mixing.
24* EvilPlan: Ariel Sharon has one. [[NoodleImplements It involves diversity]].
25* ExcusePlot: Due to the ambiguity of the only major plot element, it pretty much comes off as one.
26* FailedFutureForecast: Whatever the EvilPlan of the first game was, it was set to be executed in 2010.
27* GameBreakingBug: So many of them.
28** The most notorious one: in the first game, the second level pretty much works or doesn't work at the game's mercy.
29** ''ZOG's Nightmare'' has one that prevents you from changing your weapon. Your first gun has tens of thousands of bullets, so it's no big deal, but if you were holding another weapon, run out of ammo, and have picked up every single ammo box in the level, [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable you're in trouble since you need to kill all enemies to progress past the second level]].
30* GangBangers: Fought in the first level of ''Ethnic Cleansing''.
31* {{Gangsterland}}: Kapitol City in ''White Law'' is portrayed as a city corrupted by diversity stuffed full of violent gangsters.
32* GreedyJew: This game is made by white nationalists, so it's no surprise that Jews are portrayed as malevolent manipulators with goals of world domination.
33* HumiliationConga: Allegedly, the plans wrecked by Sharon's death date back at least two millennia.
34* InvincibleMinorMinion: The Mexican enemies aren't kidding when they say "I need to take a siesta." They are actually sleeping, not dead, and will come back to life shortly after. Somehow, they are still considered an "inferior" race despite being [[NighInvulnerability literally immortal]].
35* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: In ''ZOG's Nightmare''.
36* TheMoralSubstitute: As seen in Creator/LouisTheroux's documentary "Louis and the Nazis", the white supremacist family he interviewed only allows their kids to play ''Ethnic Cleansing'' and other racist games.
37* NoodleImplements: Diversity is frequently used as a tool of evil through means the game never explains it.
38* NoodleIncident: Ariel Sharon's plan, the game's main plot point. All they ever tell us is that it involves diversity and took thousands of years to set up.
39* NWordPrivileges: Flagrantly averted. The N-word is thrown around very freely and by anyone--it's even the chorus of the BGM.
40%% * OfficerOHara: Michael Riley, the protagonist of ''White Law''.
41* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Seeing that the game was created by white nationalists, playing as a skinhead or Klansman mass murdering non-whites is depicted as a good thing.
42%%* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter
43* SensoryAbuse: The fourth level of ''ZOG's Nightmare'' consists entirely of white Stars of David on a black background. The walls, floors, ceilings, and enemies are all covered with the same texture, making it painful to look at.
44* StrawCharacter: Every ethnic group. If the game considers it an enemy, then it'll no doubt be nothing more than a violent racial/religious stereotype existing only for the player to gun down.
45* AWinnerIsYou: Defeating Ariel Sharon causes him to utter a five-second line about how you have destroyed "[[EvilPlan thousands of years of work]]." Then you enter a room in which you can choose to restart the game or go back to the main menu.
46* WishFulfillment: Better believe it. Gunning down minorities and being seen as heroic for it is the wet dream of every Neo-Nazi ever.
47* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Of the "admitting it proudly" variety. At no point is the player's bloody rampage against minorities treated as anything other than glorious and heroic.
48* XtremeKoolLetterz: The setting of ''White Law'' is called "Kapitol City".

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