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.

Comments

Re:Some Perspective

[stonedonkey]

Completely out of context.

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.

"Many of you are well enough off that ... 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."

This link says it all :

[isotope23]

Look here

The best quotes :
"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?

Re:Fantasy and reality

[CSMastermind]

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.

Re:Fantasy and reality

[Mr. Slippery]

She still looks like a socialist.

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?