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Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
(www.theguardian.com)
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that was the first article that report on that game said. Anyway i find it already distopian enough tha a gouvernement try to shame you wause you dont agree with their immigration politics. I saw somewhere that the gouvernement had 10% popular opinion. Pretty sure it should have other priortity. Like rebuilding public trust
The game is from 2023. Not much to do with the current government. It was also an attempt to stop radicalisation, not shame people for having stupid views on immigration.
"Selecting the option to research the topic is also portrayed negatively." The character can also attend a protest against "the changes that Britain has been through in the last few years and the erosion of British values". Attending the protest nearly results in arrest East Yorkshire councils developed Pathways with Government support amid local "concerns" about immigration and tensions over migrant hotels.
yeah that look like a lot like gouvernement propaganda
Possibly propaganda, but a past government. The funder of that game, "Prevent", was a scheme started under the ill-fated Cameron government and by 2023, I think that was the Sunak government.
Then again, why shouldn't people who act as if they're being radicalised in the game not expect their character to be nearly arrested in the game? It's extremely twisted if someone from an immigrant nation like the UK starts protesting against immigration, it's not going to end well and it's probably better for the game to explain that reality than pretend those protests don't have a downside.
Mais non mdrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr So the game where they make the anti migrant sentiment force tied with white nationalism was so migrant can leanr to not be anti immigration. Omg my brain gonna explose.
More seriously how it s twisted ? Also how britain is an immigrant nation ? It s a 2000 year old country. Immigration wasnt even possible in scale 100 year ago because transportation wasnt good enough.
Well, someone descended from migrants hating later migrants is pretty twisted and a bit self-loathing, don't you think? There's got to be something wrong to want to change the rules so you wouldn't have existed if those rules had been in place years earlier.
The country of Great Britain is only just over 300 years old, but let's pretend you meant England, which is just under 1100 years old. Boats have existed for a long time, but you're right that they weren't readily available to everyone, so early mass immigration events were often linked to invasions, such as the famous Normans or less famous Dutch (most recently in 1688), or expulsions and exoduses from nearby countries, such as France (Huguenots, who were about 5% of London's population around 1700 = 30,000, with about as many in Kent) or Flanders (the Strangers). Before England was unified, there were Angles an Vikings from across the North Sea, Saxons and Romans from mainland Europe, Celts from Central Europe before them, and farmers from Spain and Turkey before that. Before that, it gets pretty hazy, but pretty much all "Brits" are descended from a mix of these immigrants.