{"id":1914431,"date":"2023-04-13T21:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-leftists-brought-the-culture-war-to-video-games\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T02:04:21","slug":"why-leftists-brought-the-culture-war-to-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-leftists-brought-the-culture-war-to-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Leftists Brought The Culture War To Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-leftists-brought-the-culture-war-to-video-games%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n      <span class=\"VDChzjwM259egpu7Xm4NATI\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n          <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Leftists Brought The Culture War To Video Games\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J4pRr4wZkIY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n        <\/div>\n<p>      <\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The new Mario movie seems to be getting a better reception than the 1993 version. Gaming has now become so mainstream that TV shows and movies about them are now becoming normal. Gone are the days of people giving you a funny look for saying you enjoy playing video games. But there\u2019s a danger in becoming more mainstream. It creates an incentive for bad actors to hijack whatever we\u2019re talking about and twist it to their own ends.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s great that the hobby is engaging more people, the wrong kind of people are engaging with gaming, and there\u2019s definitely an infection taking root. The left couldn\u2019t use gaming as a tool to push propaganda before because it wasn\u2019t mainstream enough. But now that gaming is receiving some form of cultural recognition, leftist ideology is seeping into games-based media.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a danger in the games we love become vessels for woke messaging, and so there needs to be a concerted effort to protect gaming from this.<\/p>\n<p>Gatekeeping might seem uncomfortable, but it is necessary. Not everyone should be involved in this hobby. There absolutely are people out there that just want to ruin the fun for everyone else. Gatekeeping is needed to keep those types out but it is a balancing act. We can\u2019t just slam the door shut on new players, but we can\u2019t just stand by and watch as the games we love become corrupted. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great that gaming is receiving cultural recognition, but there\u2019s a danger in it becoming too mainstream. The natural barrier of uncoolness that protected gaming from bad actors before is gone, and it\u2019s going to require a concerted effort to protect gaming from the left. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">Douglas Blair is a producer and special correspondent with &#8220;O&#8217;Connor Tonight&#8221; on the Salem News Channel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/culture-war\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Culture War<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/gaming\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">gaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/legend-of-zelda\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Legend of Zelda<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/playing-politics-with-doug-blair\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Playing Politics with Doug Blair<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/super-mario\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Super Mario<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/the-last-of-us\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">The Last of Us<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/video-games\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">video games<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you\u2019re probably aware a new Mario movie just came out. So far, this movie seems to be getting a better reception than the 1993 version. I still lie awake in bed some nights, terrified that Dennis Hopper as Bowser is going to get me. Anyway, the movie is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":1914432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[11194,4421,6960,5965,4440,6696],"class_list":["post-1914431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-brought","tag-culture","tag-games","tag-leftists","tag-video","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}