Senator Clinton Slams GTA

Joining the ranks of such luminaries as Jack Thompson and Governor Blagojevich, GamesIndustry.biz has the word that Senator Hillary Clinton has joined right wing advocates in decrying the gaming industry as a paragon of loose morals and corrupting influences. From the article: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place." Commentary available at The Australian. Update: 03/30 02:22 GMT by T : Thanks to reader mantle_etching, here is a link to the entire speech as delivered, so you can judge its content for yourself.

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Slashdot Translator

[Tarcastil]

"The parents are responsible for teaching kids morals, not video games!"
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"She's right and actually has a solution to lessening violence, but we want our video games!"

Re:Slashdot Translator

[BluedemonX]

Listen, children don't start out life American. They've got to be socialised into being aggressive and desensitised.

As for empathetic detachment, that's also required.

Some people believe it should be nihilistic music, video games in which women are chattel to be abused, and rampant pornography. These people are called Democrats.

Some believe that children should go to military school, attend frightening services at fundamentalist churches (which think it totally acceptable to show "Passion of the Christ" to small children), learn how to handle a gun as soon as they can walk and execute the mentally retarded while bombing people of different colors. These people are called Republicans.

Everyone else is made to be desensitised behind the wheel of a car in just about every traffic spot in the rest of this country.

That is, if the lack of health care, spiralling cost of living and ever-increasing downsizing doesn't drive you spare.

Some Perspective

[goldspider]

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

--Senator Hillary Clinton, June 28, 2004

Do you really want her as your next president?

Re:Some Perspective

[goldspider]

"She's talking about spreading the wealth more evenly , instead of the rich getting richer."

You mean taking more money from people who have earned it, and giving more of it to people who have not.

Re:Young Republicans

[Scudsucker]

Do you know what a living will is?

Yes. Do you know that he was her legal gaurdian in the event of an accident and thus had every right to make calls in the event of an absense of a will? You know, as the courts have found every step of the way?

Did you know he wouldn't let the parents into the room as she died?

Did you know that the first thing they asked when the husband won a malpratice suit was how much was going to be their share? How would you like it if someone smuggled tv cameras into your wife's hospital room and put her comatose body on national tv?

Did you know he has been married to another woman with and has children?

Did you know he doesn't have to put his whole life on pause because his wife has been brain dead for ten years?

Did you know there is testimony from hospital nurses that he may have tried to kill her, called her a "bitch" as she lay crippled on one occasion?

And you know this is all bullshit?

Did you know he stands to gain millions of dollars from this?

Hey, maybe the father can demand his cut, again, the first thing he does when he walks in the room!

Do you even know what you're talking about?

Yes, while you obviously have your head up your ass. You are wrong, her parents are wrong, he won every single court case while her parents only won continuances. Eat it, you fucking shithead.