Does anyone else find Bioshock Infinite's propaganda posters offensive?

[AngelicSven]

You definitely missed the point of what they're doing. It's suppose to be offensive.

 

[Dustin Crump]

Is this thread a joke? The U.S. still is, these days, one of the most nationalistic countries on Earth! The whole "proud to be an American" thing, coupled with the absolute disinterest in foreign cultures is a trademark of the U.S. in this day and age, and back then, when the U.S. was still miles behind most of the civilized world in terms of human rights, that poster was quite suitable for the overblown, caricature context it's supposed to represent.

So, no. It's not offensive. If anything, it accurately portrays the POV of a vast portion of the American public, then and even somewhat now.

there are many Americans who are proud to live here, aren't most people proud of their country, and second we do not have an absolute disinterest in foreign cultures, America has people from all over the world living here we study different country cultures through school and college. Okay so the humans rights one you got me their, but they improved throughout the years, then they started to decline when Woodstock hit.

There's kind of a difference. Other countries are interested in their country doing well and having a good country, while the in the US you either think the USA is the "Greatest nation in the world anointed by God," or you're some kind of self-hating pinko (only exaggerating a little bit.) The whole point of Columbia is to zoom in and reflect this certain strain of political thought that has been oddly pervasive since 2009-ish in certain circles that America was designed perfect until "those people" came by filtering it through the lens of late 19th- early 20th century US politics. The racism pervasive in Columbia is supposed to represent this whole idea of "Real Amurika" and this stupid ideological purity that has been such a focus lately.
And none of this is surprising because Bioshock was a takedown of Objectivism and Libertarianism where Ayn Rand gets taken down by a man who goes by monikers reflecting the titles of her two objectivist screeds using the power of unrestrained capitalism she thought was a force purely for good. This Galt/Roark was then destroyed by a mixture of his own hubris and the self-sacrifice Rand so loathed.