You meet NPCs for it, and against it, but never reach any point in which it is laid out clearly that racism is bad based on your own actions. However, Bioshock: Infinite never actually outright condemns racism and white supremacy through the characters you play. Players who are not actively anti-racist identify the messed-up, racist propaganda and language that litters the game and feel uncomfortable viewing it, and even more uncomfortable when they think about how normalized it seems in the society.
You see, the imagery is indeed reflective of propaganda and viewpoints of white supremacists for a society with a race-based system of hierarchy, and presents Columbia as being so racist to the point of disgust in many cases for the player. So you’re saying it’s not racist because the imagery and storyline serves a greater purpose of condemning racism and white supremacy? Both accounts of the events are of course racist propaganda, and gives the player an idea of just how godlike Comstock is to the people of Columbia and how actively racist the society is despite projecting itself as a great utopia. In both of these hallways, you hear and see pop-out exhibits of Chinese and American Indian people with extremely stereotypical features and sounds and trying to basically kill whitey, both however culminating with the “Prophet” of Columbia, Comstock, the creator of the city and their leader/hero, defeating both the Natives at Wounded Knee and the Chinese of the Boxer Rebellion. For example, in one sequence of the game, you have to go through two hallways in a racist museum: One portraying Wounded Knee, the other the Chinese Boxer Rebellion. However, the racist imagery is there to present a stylized world in which white supremacy is rampant. The racist imagery may trigger someone and offend many, and they have every right to be. How is it more complicated? There’s a ton of racist imagery in this game that is abhorrent. So after playing through the game, the best answer I can give you is: Well, yes and no but it’s more complicated.
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