Iran’s Basij paramilitary force created a video game to troll America about George Floyd's murder

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Sick George Floyd video game sparks outrage online

Sick George Floyd video game sparks outrage online
By Ben Cost

November 25, 2021 | 11:26am

Iranian game developers are facing the music online over a tasteless video game in which the objective is to save the life of George Floyd. Twitter/@Seamus_Malek; Ben Crump Law
It was a grotesque attempt to cash in on tragedy.

Iranian game developers are facing the music online over a tasteless video game in which the objective is to save the life of George Floyd.

Dubbed “Save The Freedom,” the mobile game is based on the killing of Floyd, who was black, by white police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota in May 2020, an incident that prompted protests around the world.

It was developed over the past year by Iran’s Basij paramilitary force — a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — at the behest of IRGC General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the Sun reported. He’d expressed the idea at a Basij digital conference in September 2020, proposing a game where players save “this black citizen from American police,” reported Kayhan Life.

The product sees gamers work their way through 30 levels of ascending difficulty, facing enemies who are presumably trying to kill George Floyd, per a tweet by journalist Séamus Malekafzali.


“Save the Freedom” was developed over the past year by Iran’s Basij paramilitary force — a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — at the behest of IRGC general Mohammad Reza Naghd.
Twitter/@Seamus_Malek
Suffice to say, “Save the Freedom” sparked a fierce backlash on social media, with critics dubbing the game “sick” and “disgusting.”

“This is a joke right,” wrote one aghast commenter of the tone-deaf pixelated pursuit. “Can someone confirm that for me?”

“This is so sick,” seconded another.

One critic lamented: “Is there anything people won’t try and profit from?”


George Floyd was murdered by Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020.
Ben Crump Law
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time someone has attempted to cash in on George Floyd’s murder. In June 2020, Amazon pulled a posting for a controversial children’s T-shirt that depicted Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd.


Demonstrators hold a banner during the “I Can’t Breathe — Silent March for Justice” in front of the Hennepin County Government Center on March 7, 2021, where Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin stood trial.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

I need to see the footage before I judge, because a game where you save George Floyd doesn't sound bad necessarily

 

[The Fade]

Reminds me when the gaming community was mad when Jax had an alternate ending that stopped slavery

opened my eyes up like TerraFormars did

 

[L&HH]

I mean America imposes it’s culture and media and news on the world. This is going to be a result.

 

[Knowledge]

Reminds me when the gaming community was mad when Jax had an alternate ending that stopped slavery

opened my eyes up like TerraFormars did

We talking about the show where the cockroaches look like swole nikkas with line ups and gold chains? And on of the strongest characters is a cac whose supposed to be the pinnacle of the human race?

 

[Smashius Clay]

TerraFormars

Bro a clip of this shyt popped up in my yt feed and I watched it with the face

The racism is blatant af.

 

[I Really Mean It]

What’s wrong with this?

 

[ChatGPT-5]

so they are saving george floyd and americans are calling it trolling?

 

[beenz]

.

 

[The Fade]

We talking about the show where the cockroaches look like swole nikkas with line ups and gold chains? And on of the strongest characters is a cac whose supposed to be the pinnacle of the human race?

They even had one of them inside of the egypt pyramids . Some people even say Attack on Titan on that

cac anime fans get mad when another race in the manga beats German weaponry but say nothing about energy beams flying out of fingers

After that I really started seeing more racist depictions and German worship on Japanese video games and Manga. I don’t watch much of that shyt anymore and get super picky if I want to read that shyt.

And when it comes to video games I only play Tekken usually now because Harada is the only video game producer with swaggy Black representation. Meanwhile Street Fighter

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i'm genuinely curious to see this.
it's obviously propaganda but it's also an interesting concept.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

They even had one of them inside of the egypt pyramids . Some people even say Attack on Titan on that

cac anime fans get mad when another race in the manga beats German weaponry but say nothing about energy beams flying out of fingers

After that I really started seeing more racist depictions and German worship on Japanese video games and Manga. I don’t watch much of that shyt anymore and get super picky if I want to read that shyt.

And when it comes to video games I only play Tekken usually now because Harada is the only video game producer with swaggy Black representation. Meanwhile Street Fighter

Chill on the SF slander. SFIII had the goat black representation of black characters.

SFV was a disappointment tho ill give you that.

With the original post: as long as the cac majority continues to treat us as second class citizens the govt has zero right to talk to other countries about human rights. They can always clap back with "your hands aint clean either"

 

[Uitomy]

They even had one of them inside of the egypt pyramids . Some people even say Attack on Titan on that

cac anime fans get mad when another race in the manga beats German weaponry but say nothing about energy beams flying out of fingers

After that I really started seeing more racist depictions and German worship on Japanese video games and Manga. I don’t watch much of that shyt anymore and get super picky if I want to read that shyt.

And when it comes to video games I only play Tekken usually now because Harada is the only video game producer with swaggy Black representation. Meanwhile Street Fighter

I stick to anime that's as homegenous as possible and if the black character don't have realistic hair I tend to stay away from those. Those people just naive to most things still so as soon as they say anything about anyone that isn't Barack obama or a dumb blonde bimbo it's sooo fukking cringey

 

[Problematic Pat]

Reminds me when the gaming community was mad when Jax had an alternate ending that stopped slavery

opened my eyes up like TerraFormars did

You didn't know those nerdy cacs are hard-core racists???

 

[The Fade]

You didn't know those nerdy cacs are hard-core racists???

Is that what I said

I’m saying I saw another level to it