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Dec. 20, 2014 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
13:09
Won't Someone Think of the Homosexuals!
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So the Google Play Store recently took down a homophobic game.
My goodness, I bet this was very serious.
Which called on players to shoot at homosexuals that were naked men running around.
Is that really the whole story?
You can take a look at some of the footage so you get an image of what this looks like now.
Yeah, yeah, that would help.
I imagine this is going to be fucking graphic.
Now this game was released early November.
Do we have any footage of what it looks like?
Yeah, here we go.
It's absolutely horrific.
Totally agree.
I can't unsee this.
I'll probably never sleep again.
So here you see it's a first-person shooter game.
No, it isn't.
Goes around and shoots naked men if the park.
In a park, yeah.
Completely unarmed.
What are you talking about?
They're naked rapists and they're armed with penises.
Naked men, I should say, as well.
Completely vulnerable.
And if they're so vulnerable, why are they charging the protagonist with the aim of gang raping him?
If the man doesn't shoot the homosexual men, presumably here, then he'll be sort of attacked.
They lunge at him.
I love this attempt at downplaying a brutal gang rape.
I mean, that you are taking this seriously just goes to show what a fucking joke you are, young Turks.
But that you are trying to downplay this bunch of fucking naked dudes in a park trying to rape someone is just marvelous.
Pretty graphic.
Is it?
Obviously, this is horrific.
It would have never made it through other channels, although I should say that the game has been around for about a decade.
Way to keep up with the times.
Just wait until you find out what the crusades were.
You're gonna go fucking nuts.
People are really upset.
It's called Ass Hunter.
Why are you fucking progressive lunatics taking this seriously?
Look at your fucking selves.
Holy shit, you're trying to get morally outraged over the biggest joke of a game that I have ever seen.
Do you like that?
That's awful.
No, the Google Play Store did take it off of its store.
Yeah, I know.
Ah, I can answer this one.
Some people have this thing we call a sense of humor and they find things funny.
It was what you were doing when your diaphragm was involuntarily contracting repeatedly just then, when you couldn't believe something you had been told.
Often humor is caused through absurdity or sarcasm or just general surprise.
It's something I know that you're new to and being progressives, you're not fans of, but I really think you're going to have to get used to it because I don't think it's going away.
Took it off its door, but the Google Play Store is actually getting a lot of heat because it didn't take it down sooner and for allowing it in the first place.
Oh yeah, how could they?
The Google Play Store simply gives developers a sort of form that they need to click and sign saying that their game or app follows the rules and they're able to just kind of post it without any repercussions initially.
Well, and you're saying that Google's terms and conditions allow you to make games where you shoot gay rapists in the face?
That is not very progressive.
It's only after others review it and report it that the Google Play Store will consider removing it.
This is in steep contrast to Apple's App Store, for example, which requires a revision period in which the Apple Store or App Store will actually review the game and will have to prove it.
Sometimes it takes about eight to ten days.
Yeah, it's just one of the myriad reasons that Apple sucks.
So it's a question about homosexuality and how we view homosexuality in this country.
Is it the long pause where you struggle to find a way to make an issue out of this tells me that it isn't?
But it's also a question of processes that are involved in putting material out there like this ass hunter game.
So censorship and control, which are just becoming hallmarks of the extreme left these days.
Clearly is prejudice against a final increase.
Okay, go on.
You can't even say it with a straight face.
Go on, tell me how this is prejudiced against minority group, you fucking retards.
Look, I think this game is so stupid.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it is.
It is so fucking stupid.
Imagine how funny the makers of this game think it is that you are even more stupid as to try and fake outrage over it.
I mean, did like a five-year-old, I mean, like a 12-year-old boy make this game?
I mean, it's so dumb.
Yeah, thousands of people downloaded it.
Yeah, so 10,000 downloads happened before it was pulled by Google.
10,000 in a decade?
No, no.
It was released earlier in November.
I thought you said it had been around for a decade.
It's been around for a decade on other platforms.
But not Google, not on Google Plays.
So it's 10,000 just on Google and theoretically many thousands or more elsewhere.
Right.
Does that make it worse?
Right.
Yeah, I'm tempted to exonerate Google as long as they reacted quickly to this.
Yeah, you forgot your gavel, Judy.
I mean, they don't have to follow.
Yeah, Apple does it better, but the flip side is then Apple.
I'm sure there have been accusations against Apple that they're that they've prevented some totally research.
They're policing, right?
You know, I get it.
You run a game and then you Google, I mean, I don't know how many people they have doing it.
Which is precisely the level of research I would expect from the young Turks.
Why don't Google is not an anti-gay company?
See, I think that that should be what you should be known for.
Google is not an anti-gay company.
What kind of ridiculous line of reasoning leads someone to have to state that outright?
I mean, what kind of fucking retard must you be?
So you get to the point where I'm like, well, I just can't rationalize how Google could have a game about shooting gay rapists in the face.
So I have to state out loud for other people to know that Google are not an anti-gay company.
Just in case there was any confusion.
And I imagine that their role is as soon as someone tells them this game is outrageous that they look at it quickly and remove it.
And they seem to have done that.
It's only outrageous if there is outrage.
You people seem to be desperately struggling to figure out how you can make this outrageous and you are failing because the game is so fucking stupid and might I add, hilarious.
I get it.
I'm sure you probably may disagree and you may even be right.
How magnanimous of you.
But mainly, I'm just stunned at the people who think that's funny, who think that's a fun game to play.
Of course you are.
If only video games would grow up and be a little more progressive and enlightened.
Yeah, I'm actually with you 100% on Google.
I think let him go, not guilty.
I imagine this is why people consider the Young Turks the reasonable progressive outlet.
I know I'm hammering progressives here, but seriously, you've lost the word.
If you considered yourself a progressive and you are not a mentaloid, let it go.
I'm sorry.
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but it's done.
These crazies have taken it and they've made it their own.
Get fucking used to it.
This is community policing.
And 10,000 downloads sounds like a lot, but it's actually not compared to most games.
And once this kind of disgusting game is up there...
Oh, yeah, it is eerily realistic.
There's an outcry against it, then Google takes it down.
As long as they acted, you know, reasonably quickly, I think that's fine.
I like the open source methodology of Google as opposed to sometimes a very closed environment of Apple.
That's fine.
I'm glad we can all agree that we don't have to go and get our pitchforks.
But this game...
Mm-hmm.
Like, I'm...
Come on, you can do this.
It's so over-the-top stupid.
It is.
You're almost there.
I'm actually almost not even offended.
It's such a ridiculously stupid thing.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it fucking is.
It is so ridiculously stupid that offense is not actually mandatory.
And it's hideous.
That's right.
It is so absurd that it couldn't possibly be real.
I think I would agree with that I disagree with you on.
I mean, yes, it's so stupid that it's hard to even take seriously.
Then why are you taking it seriously, you dullard?
Yeah, that's what it's called.
But oh yeah, we're going to keep struggling to find a reason to complain, aren't we?
That said, who's downloading it?
Probably kids.
Yeah, hold on, Helen Lovejoy.
Where have I heard that argument before?
A popular video game your children may have come across.
It is free, it is online, and it allows kids to torture.
And kids who are influenced, who are capable of being influenced by that.
Understandably, child experts worried about the game's potential impact on kids.
It's just, I mean, like, you know, and it does the fact that these, the gay men come at you and they're dangerous.
You can take a chainsaw, that's a stake you can put through the body and red blood comes out.
You can take a razor blade and start cutting him up.
I mean, it's disgusting, Melissa.
Hasn't dulled a generation of people to violence?
I don't know that we've studied that, and I think that's definitely a possibility.
Will it make impressionable youngsters numb to torture?
It is incredibly disrespectful, this game.
You know, in preparation for the segment, I went online and started to do this.
You checked out the game.
Yeah, I checked out the game, and I was personally disturbed by it.
I mean, holy shit, are you fucking kidding me?
Jesus Christ, would you fucking listen to yourselves?
I can say with 100% accuracy, young Turks, that you have actually become everything you fucking hate.
And just to flip the, this is where, you know, I got into a debate, I guess the last time I did the show, a couple weeks ago, about violent video games.
And, you know, the science is sort of in that we're not any more violent culture now that we've had violent video games.
So you're not, people who play violent video games are not more likely to commit violence.
They just aren't.
Like, we know that to be a fact, so we can stop saying that now.
As a person, one, I'm not sure you are a person because you seem to be displaying about the same level of self-awareness as a fucking dolphin.
And two, what makes you think that homophobic games cause homophobia?
It's the same fucking principle, genius.
The gay people, obviously.
It's actually the worst of everything because it justifies a killing of them.
Because if you don't kill them, they'll rape you.
Right, right.
You're not honestly going to say that you think this game teaches kids that if you don't watch out for the gays and shoot them in the face first, they're going to gang rape you in a park.
I mean, that's not what you're actually saying, is it?
But it's the Michelle Bachman, the teachers are lurking and they're going to teach your kids how to be gay.
mean it's the worst part of anti-gay hysteria and this game feeds on it you are such a bunch of fucking crutches You are just as religious as the people on Fox News.
It's terrible.
And perhaps I'm being naive living in this LA bubble thinking that this is so over the top stupid that it's not even serious or not even a threat.
No butts, you morons.
You had it in one there.
It's so over the top and stupid, it's not serious and it's not a threat.
That's it.
That's all you need to say.
In fact, you shouldn't even be saying anything, you fucking idiots.
And maybe it is.
I mean, maybe some kids play this game and they think, oh, yeah, we should go kill some black, kill some gay kids.
I don't know, man.
I mean, what are the odds that they don't think that?
Practically none, I imagine.
I think we should ban this sick filth right away.
They don't think that.
They'll think that gay life is not as important and not as the need to protect it isn't there.
Are you suggesting that at some point in the future, firemen will break into a burning building to rescue some poor guy who's trapped in his room?
They'll kick down the door, see posters of boy bands on the walls, and go, we're not saving this guy.
He's a fucking queer.
Even if they'll never in their lives do anything about it, they'll think, that guy's just gay.
What's the big deal?
He's just gay.
Matthew Shepard, he was just gay.
Yeah.
Listen, idiots, normalizing homosexuality is what you want.
You want people to just shrug and go, so what?
He's gay.
In fact, at this point, you have become less reasonable than Fox News.
Hell, I will let them make you look like hysterical idiots.
Now, I noticed that the head of the National Rifle Association agrees with your points.
He says the video games business is a corrupt industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious, violent video games.
Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?
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