LMAO since when did leftypol become 'Moms Across America'?
On violent media
Zachary Wood
Brandon Young
If you've ever seen actual genuine violence you would know that movie violence is obviously fake and doesn't remotely pack the same punch and you'd feel ashamed for positing such a stupid reactionary idea.
Isaiah Cox
I can agree, videogames are even more goofy in their level of violence. I don't know man, is a contentious subject.
Juan Moore
So is whether vaccines cause autism.
Juan Ross
I think there are films that are effective in their portrayal of violence, it requires more restraint than most directors/producers would allow though, I would present '71' as an example.
But yeah, violence in movies doesn't make people violent, as evidenced by the fact that violence is lower now than probably at any time since the start of empire-building.
Ryan Sullivan
I would argue it's necessary to administer a vaccine, where as a piece of media could be avoided. Right now i'm not convinced to ban anything, really.
Liam Stewart
On the contrary, some films should be required viewing, they represent a vaccine for the mind if you will
Hudson Taylor
There was a game about a decade ago about called American Army which was literally an online game made by the US gov to recruit people. I had a few friends in middle school who played it, and along with encouragement from their parents and the US's military-cock sucking culture, they really wanted to join when they turned 18. I always wonder if they ever did.
weird part is both my parents were ex-military and actively discouraged me from joining, while my friends came from civilian families
Lincoln Lee
Violent media if anything makes people overestimate how violent the world is.
The whole point is that how contentious an issue is has no bearing on what is true. Idiots will make a controversy out of anything. That's why I used vaccines as an example. The idea that they cause autism was literally just made up by some guy trying to find something attention-grabbing to say. He had zero evidence for it (and zero has ever been found despite much research). Few claims have ever been as demonstrably false as "vaccines cause autism," yet people still think they do.
Levi Nguyen
The vast majority of media in the West is fascist, violent or not. Just as real-life violence must be evaluated for whether it's liberatory or reactionary, so must violence in media. American children being taught to shoot Arabs and Ruskies in their video games is bad. Cuban and DPRK children being taught to shoot fascist invaders in their video games is good.