Yesterday, the European Fee and members of the European Parliament met in Strasbourg, France, for a plenary session: a four-day-long, month-to-month session wherein members of the European Union collect to debate and vote on subjects proposed by the Convention of Presidents. One of many subjects up for debate this time round was the Cease Destroying Videogames initiative, a proposal from the motion extra generally recognized on-line as Cease Killing Video games.
The talk part of a plenary session permits for any member of the European Parliament to have their say, which, sadly, signifies that members and viewers of the livestream had been subjected to an off-topic screed in opposition to Murderer’s Creed Shadows‘ that includes of an African samurai from a person named Milan Uhrík, who’s the chief of the far-right Slovakian occasion Republic Motion. “Wokeness and aggressive monetization is destroying video video games,” started Uhrík’s unhinged rant. “You wished to speak about what’s destroying video video games right here within the European Parliament? All proper, I’ll say it loud: one factor that’s positively destroying video video games is the loopy, woke ideology and political correctness, which is being compelled into the video games.”
Uhrík, who described himself as a “laptop recreation participant,” talked about two examples of stated “woke ideology” throughout his speech: a non-specific recreation wherein you “play as a queer character,” and Murderer’s Creed Shadows.
“For instance, if we wish to play as a samurai, clearly we wish to play as a Japanese warrior and never be compelled to play as a black individual warrior or feminine warrior, because it occurred just lately in Murderer’s Creed,” Uhrík continued. “Or, to play as a queer character with out another alternative. This is a matter, actually, for gamers.” His weird apart was just like remarks made by a random indignant Ubisoft shareholder throughout a 2025 investor briefing. Now, earlier than the blue-check marks on X step in to say “primarily based” and declare Uhrík as certainly one of their very own, I simply wish to level out that Republic Motion, the occasion which Uhrík leads, has been labelled as a “neo-fascist” occasion by the Slovakian media. The occasion was based by members who defected from the Individuals’s Get together Our Slovakia in 2021.
The occasion break up in 2020 as a number of of its members discovered themselves embroiled in a variety of controversies. Anton Grňo was fined for giving a Nazi salute in January 2020. It was found in 2020 that the occasion spokesperson, Ondrej Ďurica, was the frontman of a neo-nazi band referred to as “White Resistance.” And, the yr earlier than, occasion MP Milan Mazurek was convicted by the Slovakian Supreme Courtroom for racist anti-Roma statements throughout an area radio broadcast. I’m out of the blue very curious to seek out out what Uhrík thinks of the Wolfenstein video games.
