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Trump Meets With Video Game Industry, Watchdog Groups to Talk Gun Violence
President Donald Trump met with video game executives and watchdog groups on Thursday at the White House to talk about gun violence, one of a series of meetings planned by the White House in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shootings.
The meeting started with the showing of a series of particularly violent video clips, according to two participants who were there, Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center and Melissa Henson, program director of the Parents Television Council. Both are media watchdog groups.
[...] "This is not a simple thing," Bozell told Variety. "This is not to say that the video game industry is the alpha and omega of the problem, but they have to be part of the discussion."
[...] The White House released a statement afterward. "The conversation centered on whether violent video games, including games that graphically simulate killing, desensitize our community to violence." They also released the video that was shown.
The White House posted the video to YouTube. As of this submission, it's got 53 kilodislikes.
After industry meeting, Trump highlights alleged game violence effects
If game industry representatives hoped their meeting with President Trump today would help change his mind after recent statements of concern over violence in video games, they came away sorely disappointed. In a statement following that meeting, the White House said that President Trump "acknowledged some studies have indicated there is a correlation between video game violence and real violence."
"During today's meeting, the group spoke with the president about the effect that violent video games have on our youth, especially young males," the White House statement reads. "The conversation centered on whether violent video games, including games that graphically simulate killing, desensitize our community to violence. This meeting is part of ongoing discussions with local leaders and Congress on issues concerning school and public safety and protecting America's youth."
The White House statement goes against the overwhelming consensus of the research community, which has shown wide agreement that exposure to violent games in youth has little to no relationship with violent outcomes later in life.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:01PM (4 children)
Ohferchrissakes...this pop-evo-psych bullshit again.
You have a problem with the naturalistic fallacy, I can't help but notice. If your standard of good is "whatever works for breeding and propagating more," you ought to stop harping on your favorite targets (Muslim immigrants--excuse me, "invaders"-- and inner-city/poor people, especially black ones). After all, they breed more than "your sort of person." So it follows based on what you just said that they're evolutionarily superior and ought to replace you. Whoopsie!
You also seem to conflate emotional strength with keeping a stiff upper lip. That's only one part of it, and while there is a time and a place for it, telling men to do it all the time results in violent outbursts. People get hurt or killed because our boys and men are not taught *real* emotional strength--which begins first of all with understanding precisely what it is they're experiencing! You can quit strawmanning (straw-womaning?), too; you've implicitly, if not explicitly, said women and "female brains" are overemotional and allow emotion to override rational thought. That's bullshit, and anyone who grew up poor with a working mother knows exactly how bullshit it is.
On top of that, you have a weird zero-sum mentality about men. You seem to think that if more men go into nursing or teaching or pharmacology, somehow fewer men will do construction or soldiering or other "dirty" jobs. This isn't necessarily so, and if anything I'd argue it wouldn't change the number of people in "dirty" jobs much if at all. What it would do, however, is get more men involved in building their communities and by extension their own connections to said communities.
Besides which, we're coming up on the point where we can 3D-print small and medium buildings, and most of war these days seems to be about directing your murderbirds to the appropriate coordinates and dropping explosive Hell, a trend that will only continue and accelerate with the development of drone warfare. Not like it takes a man to drain a septic tank, either. And, you think nursing isn't dirty work? In my observation it's the doctors who refuse to get their hands dirty. It's the nurses who end up cleaning up after the patients who've just exploded out both ends and are cursing them to Gehenna and back through a meth-fueled haze of rage.
Your last line...is insanity. You think, with everything we've seen in politics and economics and finance since the 70s, that the pendulum is winging too far TOWARD empathy? Good Christ, are you insane? It's been going the exact opposite way for over 45 years! Empathy is not weakness; if anything it takes more strength, more knowledge, and more moral fiber, to be able to truly get inside someone else's head and figure out what makes them tick. No, it's weaker to just act on your own and do what the hell you want. You are a tremendously poor judge of this sort of thing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:55PM (3 children)
That's a fine example of both aggression and hostility. They're not the same thing by the way. Mistaking them for such is how women trying to assert themselves in business wind up being called bitches or worse by everyone around them. Understanding the difference mostly comes naturally to men. Women, apparently not so much, though it's possible it can be learned I suppose.
Also, you are aware that you are both more aggressive and hostile than most male children being raised today, yes? I wonder, do you think that makes them flawed or you?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 15 2018, @02:16AM (2 children)
Oh cry harder. If I'm going to jump into the deep and with a bunch of greasy basement-dwelling fedora-tipping bitter incels and all their libertarian horseshit, I'm not going to pull any punches, and may indeed start mimicking their behavior somewhat as a form of camouflage. Ever think about that, carrion-breath?
Or, for that matter, did you think about replying to any of the actual points that were made, instead of whining about how meeeeeeeean I am and why can't I just be a nice girl? Noooooo, of fucking *course* not. That's fine, though; it means you don't have anything substantive to reply with.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by FatPhil on Thursday March 15 2018, @09:43AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:12PM
It is possible. I used to frequent this gay hole in the wall bar. It was full of all types. But one common thread was that virtually all were some form of an eclectic hipster.
One of my good friends there was this hot butch women. We always had good conversations and frequently would buy each other drinks. We had a moment in the bar once. But she quashed it. However it festered. We loved the company. And then on day her girlfriend really pissed her of and we were drinking heavily. She kissed me and soon we were at her place. Her girlfriend was home and we fucked like mad. And it was aggressive on both side. We put two hole in walls. She punched or slapped when she thought I was about to orgasm and it hurt and I would go limp and we started over. She also would bite me so hard it drew blood. This was the start of a two year friend with benefits relationship. They get into a fight and we would enjoy wild sex. But it was always aggressive. Most fun I had ever had. Mind blowing. It all ended when she dumped her girlfriend and found another. A kiss here or there at the bar.
So it is possible. Just be wary though. It took me days to not ache. And the bite marks weeks to heal.