Ubisoft accused of 'terrorist treatment of black discrimination protest movement' in game



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TOM CLANCY'S ELITE SQUAD '' that appeared on August 27, 2020 from assassin's creed and watch dog series game development company Ubisoft , `` terrorist appeals to the elimination of black discrimination terrorists Black Lives Matter (BLM) There is a rush of criticism from users, saying, 'There is a description associated with.'

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The criticism was gathered in the scene where the terrorist organization 'UMBRA' appeared about 30 seconds after the opening movie of TOM CLANCY'S ELITE SQUAD below.

Tom Clancy's Elite Squad Intro Video-YouTube


The black fist mark is used as a symbol of 'UMBRA', which is a problem.



The act of 'raising a fist' has been known for decades as a

black power salutation , a protest against black discrimination mainly in the United States, and it has been active since 2020 after the killing of George Floyd. The symbol mark with a black fist is widely used even in BLM.


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In addition, the terrorist organization name 'UMBRA' that appears in the game of TOM CLANCY'S ELITE SQUAD means 'Yin', which is associated with 'Black', and the symbol mark with a black fist is associated with BLM, Ubisoft was inundated with criticism for 'treating black discrimination protests such as BLM as terrorists.'

In the tweet below, it is pointed out that doing something like Ubisoft that doesn't care is 'a thing in common with ignorant people.' The attached image is an example of an ignorant person, 'BLM pretends to be 'social good' evil,' and Chadwick Bozeman , the Avengers Black Panther, said to the obituary . A screenshot of an account tweet that says, 'Nobody cares.'



There is also an opinion that 'TOM CLANCY'S ELITE SQUAD is a fascist game that worships the military, and Ubisoft clearly positions BLM as a terrorist' against Ubisoft's movie.



Ubisoft has released an apology and acknowledged that the UMBRA symbol mark was ``insensitive and harmful'', Android version corrected the symbol mark with the update on September 1, 2020, iOS version as soon as possible We are announcing that we will correct it.



Ubisoft has announced that it will support BLM as of June 2020, and has announced that it has donated 100,000 dollars (about 10.6 million yen) to BLM and the American Association for the Advancement of Black People (NAACP). I will.

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