I haven't played a lot of the series but I read that a constant theme is "extremism in any direction is bad". Want an example of the Civil Rights Movement gone wrong? I would say look up the Black Panthers.
The Bioshock games on their surface decry extremism, but it's more about taking familiar, safe ideas and perverting them into something terrifying. They're still horror games at their core, and civil rights it featured as a shambling violent corpse for the same reason 1950s housewives were. It's also about recursion, that the beats of history keep repeating even as the people and settings change
The black panthers were one example of 'civil rights gone bad', but compared to most struggles the civil rights movement was relatively peaceful. There was also Malcom X, various slave rebellions, and a bunch of overseas incidents. There were the various Irish rebellions. The Nazis legitimately felt that they were being oppressed by the Jews and the rest of Europe. The government of Zimbabwe decided to make up for colonialism by violently seizing the land of white farmers, regardless of whether or not they were born in the country.
The boxer rebellion started off as China's backlash against European imperialists, and turned into a genocidal campaign against all white people.
The Nazis invaded Russia, and burned down half the country. The Russians, feeling legitimately oppressed at having their villages wiped out, proceeded to invade and occupy Berlin. During the next few years hundreds of thousands of German women would be raped by Russian soldiers.
The various communist revolutions often had landowners getting publicly executed for being either too foreign or being wealthy oppresses. Their families and children were also executed for sharing their blood. If they were lucky, the children could be spared if they forever denounced their families, which is what Daisy killing the kid was a reference to.
Most revolutions start off as good ideas fueled by legitimately oppressed people, and they very often turn out as bad as their former tyrants.
To be fair, there is legitimate criticism about Daisy that has nothing to do with her politics. She flips very quickly from worshiping you as a hero of the revolution to wanting to blow your brains out. The justification for it was so thin that the game devs actually retconed the reasoning in some DLC. It's a narrative complaint, not a political one.
Yeah, I read that complaint and agreed with it. With the various time-leaps, we never see the progression of the Vox Populi movement. People familiar with how these types of movements usually turn out might not need it to make the parallel connection, but the people unfamiliar with socialist revolutions or European anarcho-communist groups would.
Anyway, here's what I read:
https://panusher.wordpress.com/2013...narchist-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-318
https://evilasahobby.com/2013/04/17...ntment-about-bioshock-infinite/#comment-16866
http://howtonotsuckatgamedesign.com/2013/09/bioshock-infinite-privilege/#comment-149474
