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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[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.