Where do they come up with this stuff?

[SteyrAUG]

So does this mean that is the END of rap videos, t shirts promoting rap and rap album covers?

[markm]

These are the same fukkwads that would be proud to have cartoon books called Johnny had TWO mommies however.

[WickedWillis]

It's all an over-saturation and a glorification of death and violence that is pushed on kids these days, and parents not stepping in and showing them right, wrong or why. Look, I play games to unwind and relax, and some people online just take that shit way too seriously. Most parents don't care or monitor what their children take in and ingest. When a child is screaming obscenities and threatening to murder everyone he's playing against in real life, seems to me that's a parenting problem. And there are far too many absent parents in this country that just don't care, don't pay attention. It's far too easy to blame everything else than take any form responsibility.

[Koshinn]

It's all an over-saturation and a glorification of death and violence that is pushed on kids these days,

What is it that the military does? Clauswitz would say it's just an extension of national politics and policy. But if you distill it to the most basic form, the military is sanctioned government killers (or support for killers).

So what is it we do when we glorify our military and military members? How is it different than violent video games and movies?



I actually see violent media as a symptom of the mindset of the country, not as the cause. Movies and games tended to be more "soft" and happy before 9/11. After, many many movies and games moved towards realism and grittyness. I think it's because the effects of violence have become more of a common place. The longest "war" in American history produced a lot of vets with combat experience and a lot of vets with physical or psychological wounds.

These returning vets have friends and family who have no idea what they went through. So they subconsciously turn to media to find out, to get some experience of what's going on in the world.

Hence, the shift to darker/gritty/violent/realistic movies and games.

[jpmuscle]

So does this mean that is the END of rap videos, t shirts promoting rap and rap album covers?

No because that would be racist, duh

[NoveskeFan]

Zero tolerance in schools, zero tolerance in stores / marketing. They want kids to grow up afraid of guns, so in a couple generations, your grandchild will report the scary guns he saw in your closet...without question or regret.

[Moose-Knuckle]

From the sitting Attorney General of the United States . . .

[TMS951]

…freedom of speech and all.

Oh my, I forgot freedom isn't safe.

[SteyrAUG]

From the sitting Attorney General of the United States . . .

"Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitive." - Joseph Goebbels