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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFux Noise Is Already Using 'Violent' Video Games As Scapegoat For Mass Shooting
Time is a flat circle. The year is 2022, and a Fox News anchor recently asked an on-air guest whether or not he believed that video games enable mass shootings.
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Fox News brought in Bernard Zapor to discuss the causes of mass shootings. Zapor was a former special agent for the firearms division of the Department of Justice and a current college instructor in criminal justice. The news anchor Jon Scott asked Zapor: It seems like things have gotten so much worse since video games became so realistic and so violent. Have you done research or learned that video games tend to just desensitize people to the actual result of pulling a trigger? He made no mention of the shooters 180 page manifesto about being a committed racist.
While Zapor wasnt as eager to relitigate the video game controversies of the 1990s, his response wasnt necessarily more coherent: I think in terms of causation, what the information shows us is as we become more disfranchised as individuals, and groups, people leave a faith for example, the family units become smaller or more disconnected, we live further distances. Were communicating through a medium that was never really intended for human beings, which is online. Or through texting. Or these kinds of things. We get separated as humans to have connections that build inner morality. So there you have it, folks: Its not Call of Duty. Its actually your cell phones and your social media accounts that are chipping away at your reluctance to open fire on innocent people.
No, it isnt. Its about the Great Replacement Theory, a false belief that there is a concerted effort to eliminate the white majority. It turns out, if you give white supremacists easy access to guns and tell them that minorities are going to spell the end of your race, they sometimes decide to commit horrible acts of violence. But Fox News is not going to make that connection while they play a national role in stoking fear about illegal immigration and the declining dominance of white Christians.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-already-using-violent-170000033.html
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Fux Noise Is Already Using 'Violent' Video Games As Scapegoat For Mass Shooting (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
May 2022
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Lovie777
(12,346 posts)1. Same shit . ..
different day. F off "fake news".
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)2. You mean it's not
music?
Whatever, Fux News is all about distraction and distortion.
Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,454 posts)3. Let me clear this up.
If video games lead to violent ideation, then the largest consumer nation of video games would be full of dead people, right ?
Well, that would be China, followed by Japan. Don't see a lot of samurai sword mass stabbings, do you ?