08 Jul 2023, 4:13 am
Fueled by rage over the police killing of a teenager during a routine traffic stop in June, throngs of young people in France have been lashing out against alleged racial profiling and calling for greater police accountability.
President Emmanuel Macron has mostly blamed social media for the devastation, but he has also claimed that video games have inspired copycat violence and vandalism.
Just three months ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blasted video games for "teaching kids to kill."
In 2019, following two mass shootings that happened just days apart -- one in Dayton, Ohio and another in El Paso, Texas -- then-President Donald Trump told America that "we must stop the glorification of violence in our society."
He added, "This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace."
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What next? D&D? Hollywood? Autism?
Never the failure of government policies regarding police brutality, of course.
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08 Jul 2023, 11:34 am
It's never all the guns everywhere, either.
There are violent video games in every country.. but not every country has kids murdering people. Hmmm.. I wonder what could be different in the mudery places?
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.
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