The Media is trying to blame video games for desensitizing mass shooters! | Los medios están tratando de culpar a los videojuegos por desensibilizar a los tiradores masivos. | Eng - Esp

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What is going on, guys? Today I’m bringing you a more heavy-hearted post about the mass shootings that recently happened in the U.S, so you have been warned.


The media, the media, never changes. Since video games have entered the mainstream, people have been using them as a scapegoat for many things. I remember growing up in the early 2000s, whenever I was sick, my mother would blame it on that “damn playbox 360”. But there is one thing that video games get blamed for the most and it is for violence action. And the media is once again blaming video games for such an action.

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Fox news was recently discussing the Buffalo shooting that left 10 dead and 3 injured. During an interview, the anchor Jon Scott was interviewing a man named Bernard Zapor. Zapor was a former special agent for the Justice department and is currently a college instructor for Criminal Justice. In this interview, Jon Scott asks if he thinks that video games have desensitized people about pulling the trigger.


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This really isn’t surprising when it comes to Fox News because they were the same news network that said that Mass Effect showed full frontal nudity and sex. Now, before some of you jump down my throats. I’m not a fan of CNN either. I think that these two networks are extremely biased in how they report and believe that news networks should be more focused on delivering the news rather than their own political beliefs.

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Video games getting blamed for violence have been something that has been happening forever. In fact, it was the reason why the ESRB was created. You might remember reading this article I wrote The Rise of the Entertainment Software Rating Board. During a congressional hearing all the way back in 1994 about video games, a couple of games came under fire for having gun like apparatuses. One of the games, “Lethal Enforcer” was criticised the most out of the two for having a gun similar to a revolver.

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But despite this, despite what the media would have you believe, there have actually been zero studies done that show a direct link between video games and violence. In fact, there has actually been the opposite. There have been studies done that show that video games can actually help people with mental health issues, and as someone who has had generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression for as far as I can remember, I can attest to this.

Acts like the buffalo shooting have only started happening in recent times, but almost all the time, it is implied that the shooter did it because of video games. There is only one case that happened that I believe was actually the cause of it, and I remember it well because my mother told me about it and that was a case to do with Halo 3.

To make a long story short. A pastor’s son bought Halo 3 without his father knowing. The Pastor found out, locked the game away, and the son ended up shooting both his father and his mother. The mother unfortunately passed, but the father survived.

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Even still, I wouldn’t blame Halo 3 for this, but rather it was just what was there at the time. I’m a firm believer that if you’re fucked in the head before you play video games, you’re going to be fucked in the head afterwards. If it wasn’t a video game that caused him to do this, it would have been something else.

People like to blame video games because it’s the easiest thing they can do. But it’s not a problem with video games, it’s a problem with society, and that’s what people need to start looking into. My father once told me that when he went to school, people went with their hunting rifles hanging up in the back windows of their cars, and none of this stuff happened.

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There have been some major changes in our society since then, and a lot of them are bad. I think now more than ever, people are becoming more radicalised. And I can think of a few communities that are causing e this. The communities where if you say something they disagree with, they’ll scream and cry for you to get cancelled. The communities that can’t understand people are allowed to have a different opinion than you. The communities where kids were told every day that they were special and were always right.



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So no video games have absolutely zero fault in causing violence. Saying so is as stupid as saying it’s a gun’s fault that someone got shot.



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In case you didn’t know, I’m Gamergeek, and this isn’t my opinion, but a fucking fact.


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¿Qué está pasando, chicos? Hoy les traigo una publicación más triste sobre los tiroteos masivos que ocurrieron recientemente en los EE. UU., así que están advertidos.


Los medios, los medios, nunca cambian. Desde que los videojuegos entraron en la corriente principal, la gente los ha estado usando como chivo expiatorio para muchas cosas. Recuerdo crecer a principios de la década de 2000, cada vez que estaba enfermo, mi madre le echaba la culpa a ese "maldito playbox 360". Pero hay una cosa por la que más se culpa a los videojuegos y es por la acción violenta. Y los medios vuelven a culpar a los videojuegos de tal acción. Pero antes de comenzar, si pudieras darle me gusta y suscribirte, te lo agradecería.

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Fox News habló recientemente sobre el tiroteo en Buffalo que dejó 10 muertos y 3 heridos. Durante una entrevista, el presentador Jon Scott estaba entrevistando a un hombre llamado Bernard Zapor. Zapor fue un ex agente especial del Departamento de Justicia y actualmente es instructor universitario de Justicia Criminal. En esta entrevista, Jon Scott pregunta si cree que los videojuegos han insensibilizado a la gente acerca de apretar el gatillo.

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Esto realmente no es sorprendente cuando se trata de Fox News porque era la misma red de noticias que decía que Mass Effect mostraba desnudez frontal completa y sexo. Ahora, antes de que algunos de ustedes salten por mis gargantas. Yo tampoco soy fan de CNN. Creo que estas dos redes están extremadamente sesgadas en la forma en que informan y creen que las redes de noticias deberían centrarse más en entregar las noticias que en sus propias creencias políticas.

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Culpar a los videojuegos por la violencia ha sido algo que ha estado sucediendo desde siempre. De hecho, fue la razón por la que se creó la ESRB. Quizás recuerde haber leído este artículo que escribí El auge de la Junta de clasificación de software de entretenimiento. Durante una audiencia en el Congreso en 1994 sobre videojuegos, un par de juegos fueron criticados por tener armas como aparatos. Uno de los juegos, "Lethal Enforcer", fue el más criticado de los dos por tener un arma similar a un revólver.

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Pero a pesar de esto, a pesar de lo que los medios de comunicación quieren hacerte creer, en realidad no se han realizado estudios que muestren un vínculo directo entre los videojuegos y la violencia. De hecho, en realidad ha ocurrido lo contrario. Se han realizado estudios que muestran que los videojuegos en realidad pueden ayudar a las personas con problemas de salud mental, y como alguien que ha tenido un trastorno de ansiedad y depresión generalizados desde que tengo memoria, puedo dar fe de esto.

Actos como el tiroteo de búfalos solo han comenzado a ocurrir en tiempos recientes, pero casi todo el tiempo, se da a entender que el tirador lo hizo debido a los videojuegos. Solo hay un caso que sucedió que creo que en realidad fue la causa, y lo recuerdo bien porque mi madre me lo contó y ese fue un caso relacionado con Halo 3.

Para acortar una historia larga. El hijo de un pastor compró Halo 3 sin que su padre lo supiera. El pastor se enteró, bloqueó el juego y el hijo terminó disparando tanto a su padre como a su madre. Lamentablemente, la madre falleció, pero el padre sobrevivió.

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Aun así, no culparía a Halo 3 por esto, sino que era lo que había en ese momento. Soy un firme creyente de que si te joden la cabeza antes de jugar videojuegos, te van a joder la cabeza después. Si no fuera un videojuego lo que lo llevó a hacer esto, habría sido otra cosa.
A la gente le gusta culpar a los videojuegos porque es lo más fácil que pueden hacer. Pero no es un problema de los videojuegos, es un problema de la sociedad, y eso es lo que la gente debe empezar a investigar. Mi padre me dijo una vez que cuando iba a la escuela, la gente iba con sus rifles de caza colgados en las ventanas traseras de sus autos, y nada de esto sucedió.

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Ha habido algunos cambios importantes en nuestra sociedad desde entonces, y muchos de ellos son malos. Creo que ahora más que nunca, la gente se está radicalizando más. Y puedo pensar en algunas comunidades que están causando esto. Las comunidades en las que si dices algo con lo que no están de acuerdo, gritarán y llorarán para que te cancelen. Las comunidades que no pueden entender a las personas pueden tener una opinión diferente a la tuya. Las comunidades donde a los niños se les decía todos los días que eran especiales y que siempre tenían razón.



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Así que ningún videojuego tiene absolutamente ninguna culpa en causar violencia. Decir eso es tan estúpido como decir que es culpa de un arma que alguien haya recibido un disparo.

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En caso de que no lo supieras, soy Gamergeek, y esta no es mi opinión, sino un jodido hecho.


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No creo que toda la culpa de esto sea de los video juegos. Estos incidentes ocurren más que todo en Estados Unidos un país donde la armas las pueden conseguir fácilmente y que vive un declive de sus valores por eso eventos así no pasaban hace 30 o 40 años atrás.

Tengo que estar en desacuerdo con decir que es porque las armas se obtienen más fácilmente. Ha sido relativamente recientemente que han ocurrido estos tiroteos masivos. Es un problema con la sociedad y cómo son las personas ahora frente a cómo eran las personas en ese entonces. Y es algo que debería investigarse más. En lugar de simplemente culpar a una cosa o la otra.

Sin embargo, estoy de acuerdo en que los valores han cambiado.

Fox is looking for nearly any reason this happened that's not the one the killer literally wrote a 100+ page manifesto about: The Great Replacement. They've spent years giving this worldview hundreds of hours of airtime to the point that it's one of the main talking points on their most popular show in Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Making this issue about guns ownership and video games is convenient for the network and, as they have no shame and their viewship are not the type to think critically about this kind of thing, there is zero downside for them.

I think it's the same with any news network like Fox. They say things that they know that will get them views it's why the entire time trump was in office CNN never said a single good thing about him and why Fox had nothing but good things to say.

Had no idea of this massacre but it's such a stupid thing to blame games for violence. I remember my mom was saying the same when she was seeing me playing shooters. I actually see the games more like a great way to escape from reality and forget about daily routines and stress, which has nothing to do with the bad things happening out there.

100% and as a kid that's what I often used video games for. They helped me deal with my depression and anxiety. All it is, is fear mongering. I'm just glad that during the interview Zapor was smart enought to not fall into the trap Jon Scott tried to lay.


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These sorts of talk are bonkers. Many studies conducted before prove otherwise; gaming does not influence violence. Gamers become irritated when there is either lag or issue with the device only. Sad to see that they still are trying to tie it to the only place where many people find peace, where they can get away from the worldly problems for some time.

Seriously though. I just read an article by a writer for a website that pretty much said "even though all these studies say this about video games, they're wrong" I'm going to be posting an article/video about it tomorrow!

Nunca fue culpa de los videojuegos, de hecho, en su tiempo querían echarle la culpa a la televisión, el problema es más complejo, no quiero profundizar, pero en resumen se tiende a escuchar a quien conviene.

I have to admit that it bothers me to this day that stuff like this is STILL happening (blaming games for every evil in the world), specially about how there was that brief time during the beginning of the Quarantine that, in a ironic turn of events, were actually somewhat praising games for being a way to spend your free time at home...and that's the only even remotely positive thing I've ever heard from mainstream media about games.

Oh well, good thing I never cared too much about that, but I'd say that its probably the reason why I don't really like to discuss my stuff about games often unless its with people I know as friends IRL, or on a place on the internet where I know that its for discussing games.

Blame video games. Blame the NRA. Blame modern rifles. Blame violent movies. Come up with a reason to write more laws and enforce them at gunpoint, and wonder why violence plagues society when government is built on a foundation of theft and violence from the start.

It's all about placing blame on something that isn't to blame so that people don't start looking towards the real problems.

this isn’t my opinion, but a fucking fact.

I completely agree. Previously my aunt used to take away my video games when I used to be sick because she said that consoles gave diseases (and while it was true that there were warnings like danger of epilepsy and stuff like that, I guess older people assumed that it could also give other kinds of diseases lol).

Relying on the word of the media is absurd. Not only do they misrepresent information about video games, but about virtually ANY possible subject. Not long ago I saw a video about the media manipulation of CNN and other news outlets, constantly repeating the same message over and over again. It's completely insane when you do a little more research about this.

This is a Spanish video, so just skip it to 20:40 and you'll notice what I'm talking about XD

My god, it's like listening to robots talk.

And these days my mother is a lot smarter. When she hears something about video games on the news she'll often ask me about it. I mean it's frigging ridiclous. Just look at the Kyle Rittenhouse trail. No matter where you stand on that I think everyone can say it's absurd that the presecutor was trying to link the fact that Kyle played COD to the shootings.

Todos estos actos son algo realmente triste y preocupante de como cada vez parecen ser mas cotidianos pero decir que es por cual de los videojuegos es una completa estupidez, a mi parecer es un problema social que va mucho mas allá de un factor externo como podría ser jugar a un videojuego de disparos.
Siempre que veo esas opiniones sobre como por culpa de los videojuego aumenta la violencia en la sociedad no puede dejar de pensar en todos los actos de violencia, guerras y demás horrores que han existido en la historia cuando no habían sido inventados los videojuegos y pensar. "aja y en esa época a que culpaban? a los libros relacionados con guerra?. buen post amigo :D

Soy exactamente de la misma manera. Ha habido un montón de atrocidades cometidas a lo largo de la historia antes de que los juegos se convirtieran en una cosa. Dudo mucho que los romanos acabaran con los cartagineses porque un videojuego también se lo dijo. Los videojuegos se han convertido en la nueva cosa más fácil de culpar.

5 years this has been happening to me, it started here, around people that are still here. Homeland security has done nothing at all, they are not here to protect us. Dont we pay them to stop shit like this? The NSA, CIA, FBI, Police and our Government has done nothing. Just like they did with the Havana Syndrome, nothing. Patriot Act my ass. The American government is completely incompetent. The NSA should be taken over by the military and contained Immediately for investigation. I bet we can get to the sources of V2K and RNM then. https://peakd.com/gangstalking/@acousticpulses/electronic-terrorism-and-gaslighting--if-you-downvote-this-post-you-are-part-of-the-problem

They've been doing this for a really long time. I remember when they first started doing this back in the 80's. The media loves to find something to point the finger at other than the individual and their parents. It has to be anything other than personal responsibility.

Amen to this. It's easier to just blame video games, then to look at the real problem.

So the degradation of society, sexual aberrations, the murder of unborn children, and all the evil and suffering seen in the world is also the fault of video games?

Actually it's all a combination, since an increasingly degraded society will bring with it much worse things, and it's all what they learn from previous generations. Sure, video games may have something to do with it, since killing someone in cold blood can also damage someone's mind, but it is also the abuse they suffer daily that leads them to commit horrible acts, I know people who all their lives have played GTA, CS among others and until now have not gone out with a rifle to kill people en masse.

Mental illness is another decisive factor in these situations, and of course the evil influence on people.

I 100% believe that video games can act as a cataylyst for things, but at the same time, if it wasn't video games that were the "trigger" it would have been something else. Like I mentioned about the pastors son. If it wasn't Halo 3 that triggered this event, it would have been something else.

I never delved into it too much but the son planned it out. He took the gun from his fathers safe, walked downstairs when his parents were watching tv and told them to close their eyes that he had a surprise for them. He shot them both in the head, the mother died while the father sat on the couch for hours still alive. IIRC (I maybe wrong) but I believe it was his other brother(maybve sister) who found their parents and called the cops. They thought the father was going to die, but he pulled through. And what's amazing is that he actually forgave his son for doing it.

Well, with so many problems and abuses that people go through, it is normal to hear things like this.

It's so goddamn predictable and so incredibly lazy.
I'd expect this kind of outrageous knee jerk reaction on Facebook Boomer group pages, not by a "news" anchor. I'm sure he didn't provide any evidence or facts that videogames had any link at all to these shooters.

For the Buffalo case it could not be more clear... the shooter left his manifesto and diaries. We all have access to his daily thoughts, his anxieties, his news sources, his fears and his reasons. None of it was about videogames, and instead was about his racist outrage that minorities should be wiped out based on misinformation he got from 4chan, Fox, etc. It is all there, which makes it all the more outrageous that lazy news reporting targets videogames.

I 100% agree. I never read the full manifesto, but have read parts about it. What gets me is that he was trying to get Zapor to agree with him, and at one point it seems like he was going to ask him if he suggests that video games desensitized people, but then he quickly changed his mind. Thankfully, Zapor was actually smart and didn't fall into that line of questioning.

Whenever a mass shooting happens, it's always video games. In 2022, you would think that the media would be better than that. But then again, they like causing fear in parents that don't know any better.

I honestly hope we hear less and less on this angle. Fox in particular targets cable-watching boomers... who haven't been into games so much so of course their audience will agree with them. Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials and Gen Z have been playing games their entire lives and know it's absolutely not true... so hopefully this uneducated argument dies out and maybe we can actually start to work the actual documented reasons on why people are getting radicalized enough to cause mass murder.

That's the thing. Blaming video games is as stupid as blaming MacDonalds because the shooter use to eat there.