The Last of Us. Pt. II #1--Dumbing it down

I think The Last of Us Pt. II will be bad, y'all. Here's an excerpt from a GQ interview with Neil Druckmann, director of the game (from a vg247 article): 

In part, [the game] was inspired by a news event creative director Neil Druckmann witnessed as a child.

“I don’t want to go into specifics about it, but I saw a video of a lynching when I was much younger. It was like an actual… like a news thing. And then, feeling intense hatred for the people that committed the lynching and thinking, like, ‘oh man if I could hurt these people in some horrible ways then I could.’”

While writing the story for Part 2, Druckmann spent some time reflecting on those feelings, that intense hatred he felt at the time. “I was like, oh we can make the player feel that,” he explained. “We can make you experience this thirst for revenge. This thirst for retribution, and having you actually like commit the acts of finding it. And then showing you the other side to make you regret it. To make you feel dirty for everything you’ve done in the game, making you realize ‘I’m actually the villain of the story.’”

(https://www.vg247.com/2020/06/09/the-last-of-us-part-2-lynching-neil-druckmann-witnessed/)

I can't emphasize enough how bad it is, that Druckmann's takeaway from racist violence, is "both sides are evil." Three more things to note:

1. Why are families, friends, or people who want justice for lynchings, needing a 'thirst for revenge [or] retribution." Why are these people, and if we're speaking historically about American lynchings (where The Last of Us is set), Black people given uncontrollable and animalistic behaviors? 

2. It's bizarre that Druckmann was struck by "a video of lynching when I was much younger." Has he remained in a stasis where racism hasn't penetrated him after that? What about American states where lynching is still legal?

3. Based on previews and commentary, Druckmann and The Last of Us Pt. II seem obsessed with individual actions and the cycle of violence as it pertains to individuals seeking revenge. But lynching, the horrible act itself, has to be enacted by a group of people hanging an individual. And in the more macro and American way, it's enabled by a political and economic system that values the killing of Black people. Those seeking 'revenge', or justice, against this system inherently can't compete with a capitalistic machine that large.