Australian Game promotes killing indigenous people

With Australians you will find awesome people, as well the shitheads. Who in the right mind would come up with such a game, and sadly why is it even popular among-est some of Australian people ? the answer is plainly simple. Racism. The article gives details about this crappy game.

“Beware of Aborigines!” appeared on an image used to promote the game titled Survival Island 3 in the Apple store, The Guardian reports. For $4.49 AU, users could attempt to survive in a virtual Australian outback, fighting off dangerous animals and winning additional weapons after successfully killing an indigenous person. “This app makes us inhuman, it re-enforces racial violence, lack of punishment for white people taking black lives, it makes fun and sport of massacres and Frontier violence,” reads a Change.org petition started by Georgia Mantle of the group Students Support Aboriginal Communities. She also noted that the game treats the historical genocide of indigenous Australians as a source of entertainment. Between 1778 and 1900, Australia’s indigenous population was reduced by 90 percent as a result of British colonization. Today, indigenous people are one of the most marginalized groups in Australia, facing lower rates of employment and educational achievement. Nearly 20 percent of non-indigenous Australians admitted that they discriminate against the indigenous population, according to a 2014 survey conducted by mental health organization Beyond Blue. That includes telling jokes, refusing to hire an indigenous person, or changing seats if an indigenous person sits next to them. Even more respondents said indigenous people get unfair governmental assistance (42 percent) and are sometimes lazy (37 percent.) “Selling games that promote racism and negative stereotypes of Indigenous Australians is not acceptable,” Mantle wrote in the petition description. More than 80,000 people agreed and signed it. By Saturday, both the Apple App Store and Google Play had pulled the game from their lineup. Mantle considers the campaign a victory—although she’d still like an explanation as to why the game was available for purchase in the first place. http://news.yahoo.com/students-demand-answers-game-promotes-killing-indigenous-australians-184824692.html

Apple store and the game company has failed to comment on this, apparently it seems they are trying to ignore people in effort to downplay the game. Then again maybe the game is pointing out how Australians took Australia to begin with.. Through force and killing the original indigenous people.