Since its release in October 2018, Red Dead Redemption 2 has generated considerable controversy. Redemption 2, Rockstar Games’ highly popular video game set in a sprawling open world that resembles America’s southern and western states at the turn of the twentieth century, has attracted criticism from players who have disliked the perceived political messages the game presents. With numerous interactions with people of color, Native Americans, and feminist (suffragette) characters, the game prompts players to engage with the ongoing effects of colonialism, sexism, and racism, as well as the rising problems of an industrial and financial capitalist society. As such, the game’s depiction of Gilded Age and Progressive Era politics has resulted in a large amount of online criticism from a group of traditionally white, male, right-wing players. This article argues that Redemption 2 utilizes the Progressive Era as a vehicle to capture and speak to the current political climate, and that it is the game’s dual relationship with the past and the present that has aroused animosity from part of the game’s audience. Ultimately, it demonstrates how contemporary mainstream progressive politics can be interpreted within and projected upon the politics of the Progressive Era.

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“你是真正的进步者”：荒野大镖客 2 与进步时代政治的描绘与接受

自 2018 年 10 月发布以来，荒野大镖客 2引发了相当大的争议。救赎 2，Rockstar Games 广受欢迎的视频游戏设置在一个类似于 20 世纪初美国南部和西部各州的广阔开放世界中，引起了不喜欢游戏所呈现的政治信息的玩家的批评。通过与有色人种、美洲原住民和女权主义（女权主义者）角色的大量互动，游戏提示玩家参与殖民主义、性别歧视和种族主义的持续影响，以及工业和金融资本主义社会日益严重的问题。因此，游戏对镀金时代和进步时代政治的描绘导致了一群传统的白人男性右翼玩家的大量在线批评。这篇文章认为救赎 2利用进步时代作为捕捉当前政治气候并与之对话的工具，而正是游戏与过去和现在的双重关系引起了部分游戏观众的敌意。最终，它展示了当代主流进步政治如何在进步时代的政治中被解释和投射。