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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.
Completely out of context.
... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Context:
"Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters -- some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend -- to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress.
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"Serious violent crime levels declined since 1993. "
"Firearm-related crime has plummeted since 1993."
The most amusing thing is Doom was released at the peak in 1993. Perhaps people are taking their frustations out in violent video games instead of real life?
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http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.htmlFac ts versus Myths about video game violence The guy covers the main points about video game violence. In short, yes there are. But there are more studies that show that children are likely to become violent if their parents are negligent or violent.
People tend to mimic what they are exposed to. It is the same pscyhological pattern that first enabled us to learn how to communicate when we were little, and although there is some dissipation of this phenomenon as we grow older, it never completely goes away.
Sufficient exposure to violence, even if entirely virtual, will tend to result in more violent behaviour in the individual. The amount of exposure to violence that a person can tolerate with no outwardly obvious effects ever manifesting varies greatly from individual to individual, but is fundamentally linked to the pscyhological bent that all human beings have to mimic their surroundings, as I mentioned above. Because, as I said before, this phenomenon dissipates somewhat with age, younger children _TEND TO BE_ more susceptible to influence caused by exposure to violence than older people.
Because the impact varies so much from person to person, however, it's probably simply most appropriate to let a child's parent determine if they should be allowed to be exposed to the material. Obviously, video game stores are not going to be responsible for parenting other people's children, so it's probably reasonable for them to err on the side of caution. If the parent thinks it's okay, then the parent should get it for the kid himself.
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The "War on Drugs" was not a creation of the Clinton administration. It's actually a very very old propaganda effort, and most of its proponents have been republicans.
See: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/pol/495lect03.htm
From my own formative years, I remember when Reagan re-invigorated the Nixon anti-drug efforts after Ford let them fade out. Carter was very much anti-drug (still is), but thought that there were more pressing concerns for the executive.
If you do your homework (which it seems you do not), you'll see that your perceived "democratic legislation of morality" has historically (over the last 40-50 years or so) included legalized abortion, civil rights and equal rights for women.
Sadly, it is republicans that want to pass laws that restrict personal freedoms and civil rights... controlling who you marry, how you die, what you watch, where you can go, what you can see and where you can travel. Now that they have majority, this is also their great opportunity to force christian values on everyone -- not by bringing them to church in fellowship, but by only passing laws that pass a christian fundamentalist litmus test. For shame.
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Conservatives like to throw that word "socialist" around. In the words of Inigo Montoya, "I do not think it means what you think it means."
Or is Hillary working for a democratic society and economy run to meet the needs of all instead of the profits of a few? For the worker's democratic ownership and/or control of the means of production? For the end of capitalist oppression and exploitation?
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