Creative leads Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross continue to follow the IDF and remain selectively silent on the vastest humanitarian crime of the 21st century. Notably, they are quick to wrap themselves in identitarian performatism, peacocking their so-called progressive politics. The massive dissonance of writing that synagogue dialogue in TLOU II — clearly a reflection on persecution, survivorship, and the sacredness of Jewish identity — to then in turn embody, at best, the banality of evil during another holocaust. It beggars belief. Posting a donation to “both sides” in October 2023 and then going radio silent does not redeem him.
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I was berated in a different sub for even pointing out Druckmann was a Zionist and immediately got responses like “Oh, he just wants Violence to stop” or “he cares about the victkms” or even that “Last of Us is actually a metaphor for Israel-Palestine and is critical of the latter so he can’t be that big of a zionist”. And I also got more than a few responses going “yeah, but HAMAS”
Say it with me: wanting a state solely to protect Jewish people is wanting an ethnostate. You can’t be like “I am for a Free Palestine” and also say “Israel should be there for the safety of Jewish people.”
He literally admitted that he came up with tlou because he was angry that a “terrorist” threatened an illegal israeli settler.
Ahhh man, I didn’t know this until just now. Unforgivable.
aw damn. didn’t know about this but glad to not buy their stuff anymore, i guess.
My brother’s a Drucknut and it breaks my heart every day.