On the American side "it depicts a sensitive subject in a cartoonish trivialising manner! These people are racist fucks and should be hung like the pieces of shit they are!" It juxtaposes the absurd trivialization of human life against game mechanics that mirror tasks that we perform in our normal world (sorting, logistics, etc).Īs a result, it asks the people that play the game to consider what greater effects there are in the things we do, that could be harmful, but we might be blind to now, as the black slave traders in that era was blind (or at least apathetic) to the horror of what they did then. This game takes that notion to its extreme - making you do mundane tasks, but the obvious horror of what you're doing is staring you in the face the entire time. He set an example for the New World slaves by making Haiti independent. He was a prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
#SLAVE TETRIS FREE#
He got free from this system at the age of 33 but continued to work on the plantation. We get swept up and caught up in these dehumanizing tasks, we forget the fact that we deal with human beings. Toussaint Louverture was a slave since his birth on a plantation of Breda at Haut de Cap in Saint-Domingue. The idea is to understand that evil things happen from trivial mundane actions. Maybe there is just a lot of culturally differences in what you can discuss and express – and maybe just maybe there are larger issues at stake here then whether slave tetris was bad taste or not… and maybe as a lot of the tweeters say a stupid white dane like me don’t know anything, and shouldn’t be allowed to say a single word about the story of African-Americans.Īmericans really aren't a fan of empathizing are they. But maybe we are not the only ones not getting it. I know that people will then assume that mean that all Danish teachers are racist, and I guess on some level they would probably be in US based on some of the stories that travel to Europe, but hard to say as I don’t live there, and have limited insight into your society.Īnd would guess that a lot in the US would just think we didn’t get it, and that is probably very true. Its a game that is used by around 10% of Danish schools, and in general has been seen as doing a lot of things right. Here is a game that has been recognized with educational awards in Europe. I think it is interesting how big the divide apparently is between how Europe and United States in treating this sensitive subject.