{"id":35707,"date":"2026-10-18T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=35707"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:12:51","slug":"gamers-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/gamers-and-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamers and Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Czech Facebook group &#8220;Nerds for Themselves&#8221; (Nerdi sob\u011b) has become a platform for discussing retro games but has also revealed pervasive antigypsyism and racism in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A post featuring a 1990s video game called &#8220;Mati\u010dn\u00ed Street&#8221; promotes violence against Roma, where players score points by killing Roma characters depicted in a racist manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the group&#8217;s large membership, there has been no condemnation of the racist content, highlighting a troubling acceptance of racism within Czech society.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miroslav Bro\u017e: Czech social media users celebrate &#8217;90s first-person shooter video game featuring the murder of Roma. In: Romea. 17.10.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/romea.cz\/en\/opinion\/miroslav-broz-czech-social-media-users-celebrate-90s-first-person-shooter-video-game-featuring-the-murder-of-roma\">https:\/\/romea.cz\/en\/opinion\/miroslav-broz-czech-social-media-users-celebrate-90s-first-person-shooter-video-game-featuring-the-murder-of-roma<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Facebook group &#8220;Nerds for Themselves&#8221; (Nerdi sob\u011b) has become a platform for discussing retro games but has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602,14],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-35707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-czech","category-news-eastern-europe","tag-racism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maticni-hra.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35709,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions\/35709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}