Tea Party Facebook Group Posts Racist BioShock Image Unironically

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts Racist BioShock Image Unironically

Remember all those sinisterly jingoistic posters that littered the floating city of Columbia in BioShock: Infinite? One of the more xenophobic images has made its way onto the Facebook page of an ultra-conservative political group in the US. Apparently, they didn’t realise the image was satirising their own party. We’d be laughing if it wasn’t so scary.

The National Liberty Foundation is a Florida-based group of radical conservatives associated with the right-wing group that calls themselves the Tea Party (amusingly, they briefly referred to themselves as ‘Tea-baggers’ before the obvious connotation was brought to their attention).

The group uses its Facebook page to post lots of right-wing meme images and racist links. Yesterday, they posted the above image, which looks a whole lot like an anti-immigrant cartoon.

Well, it is an anti-immigrant cartoon — it’s just from the video game BioShock Infinite, where it’s used as propaganda for the Founders, a group of totalitarian good ol’ boys who run the floating city of Columbia. They’re the video game equivalent of the Tea Party, and they’re portrayed as a nasty group of racist white men.

In other words, this Tea Party group just Facebooked an image meant to satirize the Tea Party.

Whoops.

As one Facebook poster succinctly put it: “Instead of trolling immigrants, you trolled yourself. Way to blow it idiots.”

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts Racist BioShock Image Unironically

Additional reporting by Jason Schreier.

(via @Holloboles)


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