{"id":1929151,"date":"2023-05-11T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problem-with-matt-walshs-argument-about-gaming\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:16:28","slug":"the-problem-with-matt-walshs-argument-about-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problem-with-matt-walshs-argument-about-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Walsh&#8217;s Gaming Argument Flawed"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fthe-problem-with-matt-walshs-argument-about-gaming%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=1929151&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--><h2>Debunking the Myth: Video Games Don&#8217;t Cause Violence<\/h2>\n<h3>The Radical Left Isn&#8217;t the Only Threat to Gaming<\/h3>\n<p>While the radical left is clearly a threat to gaming, they&#8217;re not the only ones who could have a negative impact on it. Last week, Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh released a video where he stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocking-exclusive-auditors-selected-by-arizona-maricopa-county-board-of-supervisors-send-message-to-observers-f-you\/\" title=\"SHOCKING EXCLUSIVE: Auditors Selected by Arizona Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Send Message to Observers: \u201cF@#$ You\u201d\">video games<\/a> are at least partially responsible for desensitizing children to violence. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not good for kids to spend an exorbitant amount of time-consuming graphically violent content,&#8221; Walsh said. Sure, spending an exorbitant amount of time doing any one thing is always going to be an issue. But then he continued on, and this is where I think he made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh said, &#8220;Even if the content is fictional and virtual and imaginary. It doesn&#8217;t mean it has no influence just because it&#8217;s fictional. Among other things, it can have the effect of desensitizing the mind and soul to violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I have a deep respect for Walsh, and I can completely understand where he&#8217;s coming from, he&#8217;s just wrong on this one. <\/p>\n<h3>Debunking the Myth<\/h3>\n<p>Studies show that there&#8217;s no connection between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/allen-west-americas-unique-freedom\/\" title=\"Allen West: America\u2019s Unique Freedom\">violent video games<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-bush-sides-with-st-louis-inmate-rioters\/\" title=\"Rep. Bush sides with St. Louis inmate rioters\">violent behavior<\/a>. A 2019 study by Christopher Ferguson from Stetson University and C.K. John Wang from Nanyang Technological University found &#8220;no long-term predictive relationship between aggressive video games and future aggression in youth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Playing into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problem-with-matt-walshs-argument-about-gaming\/\" title=\"Matt Walsh's Gaming Argument Flawed\">fear-mongering surrounding video games<\/a> is not the answer. It&#8217;s not helpful to alienate a group of people like gamers who are sick and tired of the woke left in their spaces. Video games are a hugely popular hobby, and it makes zero sense to try and punish players for indulging in something that makes them happy and is proven not to increase violence.<\/p>\n<h3>Age-Appropriate Games<\/h3>\n<p>Give kids age-appropriate games for sure, but let&#8217;s put to bed this idea that games like &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; or &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; are causing horrific acts of violence because they&#8217;re not. It&#8217;s actively alienating a potential ally in the fight against the radical left, and it&#8217;s based on emotion and not truth. So, no, Matt Walsh, video games don&#8217;t cause violence.<\/p>\n<p>Now with that said, who&#8217;s up for some &#8220;Mortal Kombat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Blair is a producer and special correspondent with &#8220;O&#8217;Connor Tonight&#8221; on the Salem News Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the radical left is clearly the biggest threat to gaming, they\u2019re not the only ones who could have a potentially negative impact on it. Last week, Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh released a video where he stated that video games are at least partially responsible for desensitizing children to violence. \u201cIt\u2019s not good for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":1929152,"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":[10171,5802,23277,3622,24716],"class_list":["post-1929151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-argument","tag-flawed","tag-gaming","tag-matt","tag-walshs"],"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\/1929151","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=1929151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}