Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Anita Sarkeesian or Jack Thompson？
Aired: 2015-04-25
Duration: 02:15


=== Gaming and Violence (02:15) ===

[00:00:00]  In the spirit of Stormfag or Social Justice Warrior, there is a quiz here called Anita Sarkeesian or Jack Thompson.
[00:00:08]  Let's try it.
[00:00:10]  We have a nation of children in schools who spent hundreds of hours on mass murder machines that teach them it's glamorous that it's fun to kill human beings.
[00:00:18]  That sounds like Jack Thompson.
[00:00:21]  There you go.
[00:00:23]  Video games are art imitating life, and you get a bleedover of life imitating art.
[00:00:28]  That sounds like the sort of thing Sarkeesian would say.
[00:00:31]  Damn.
[00:00:33]  Almost every school shooter is immersed in violent entertainment.
[00:00:37]  Now, I'm certain this is Thompson because it didn't mention men.
[00:00:41]  Ha!
[00:00:43]  Games don't just entertain.
[00:00:45]  Intentional or not, they always express a certain set of values that present us with concepts of normalcy.
[00:00:50]  Sounds like Sarkeesian, doesn't it?
[00:00:54]  It's dangerously irresponsible to be creating games in which players are encouraged and even required to perform violence.
[00:01:01]  I'm guessing that's Thompson.
[00:01:04]  Damn.
[00:01:05]  Could have been either one, couldn't it?
[00:01:08]  We need to seriously address connections between violence, sexism, and toxic ideas of...
[00:01:12]  Yeah, okay, thanks Anita.
[00:01:15]  Are you crazy?
[00:01:16]  People are threatening to kill me.
[00:01:17]  Either report what I've said, having been provided the emails, or stop bothering me.
[00:01:22]  I'm guessing that's Thompson.
[00:01:25]  Yeah, they both got death threats, obviously, because Jack Thompson was a woman.
[00:01:30]  Grand Theft Auto is the gravest assault on children in this country since polio.
[00:01:35]  Now, I don't think Anit Sarkeesian is old enough to remember polio.
[00:01:39]  Ha.
[00:01:41]  If you get started playing violent video games, you're more likely to copycat the behaviours in the game.
[00:01:47]  Jack Thompson?
[00:01:49]  Again, could have been either one.
[00:01:51]  Brutal violence has been normalized and glamorised and celebrated in gaming for so long.
[00:01:55]  Sounds like Macintosh to me.
[00:01:57]  Oh.
[00:01:59]  Wow, that really sounded like Macintosh as well.
[00:02:03]  Fucking Jesus.
[00:02:08]  Wow, 7 out of 10, I...
[00:02:12]  Hey, I've been saying it.
[00:02:14]  Their arguments are the same.