Internet creates proliferation of hate sites: Adler

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Some sites create racist video-style games to entice children, Adler said, using his computer to demonstrate a game called Border Patrol that allows the viewer to shoot Mexicans trying to cross the border into the U.S. -- they scream and blood spurts as they are shot.

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This is another example why people of color don't trust people of European origins.

Now the question I want to ask is: does marketing research indicate children of color, including Hispanic kids, play these games (and more importantly buy these games) to support the market? The game developers could re-do these games, and put unkempt white guys with big, unkempt moustaches from "Slobbovia" crossing the border to be shot at to see if that makes a difference in the "play" of the kids. Or maybe make a game where the "illegals" are Canadian (like in "South Park").

I watch my nephews play video games (which I don't like) in which they choose to be big, black mean dudes who beat up each other. I watch the blood fly as these little white kids assume the persona of street thugs.

I don't like it, but I am of a previous generation, so what do I know? Fifty years ago I might have been right on the floor with them (if they had these kinds of games back then). They see commercials for the

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