{"id":400127,"date":"2021-04-08T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=400127"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:28:32","slug":"people-are-trying-to-get-a-new-video-game-banned-claiming-it-will-lead-to-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-are-trying-to-get-a-new-video-game-banned-claiming-it-will-lead-to-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Trying To Get A New Video Game Banned, Claiming It Will Lead To Mass Shootings"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpeople-are-trying-to-get-a-new-video-game-banned-claiming-it-will-lead-to-mass-shootings%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=400127&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-926.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The decades-old claim that video games needed to be banned because they cause violence is back, even though in that same length of time, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that no, video games <em>do not<\/em> cause violence (or misogyny or racism or whatever else they\u2019re blamed for).<\/p>\n<p>The latest example involves a censorship attempt over the game \u201cSix Days in Fallujah,\u201d a game that was canceled in 2009 over fears that it was released too soon after the real-life Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004, after which the game is based. It\u2019s been 12 years since its cancelation, and now that the game looks like it might finally be released, activists posing as games journalists are trying to get it canceled again, this time based on moral panic.<\/p>\n<p>None of the people complaining or defending the game have played it, since it isn\u2019t available yet, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the commentary. Forbes senior contributor Erik Kain, who covers video games, described the game in his Susbstack <a href=\"https:\/\/diabolical.substack.com\/p\/the-ridiculous-censorious-social\">column<\/a> defending it as a game that, from what he could tell, \u201csimply tries to recreate the chaos and terror US, British and Iraqi troops (and civilians) faced entering a deadly, hostile urban setting overrun by insurgents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not&nbsp;<em>Call Of Duty.&nbsp;<\/em>It\u2019s a slower-paced, tactical first-person shooter that uses procedurally-generated areas so that each time you enter the battle, you go in with uncertainty, not knowing what to expect, a mechanic that mimics the tension of a real urban warfare environment rather than the bombastic, frenzied levels of&nbsp;<em>Call Of Duty<\/em>,\u201d Kain added.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Kain wrote that game developer Highwire Games said \u201cSix Days in Fallujah\u201d was an attempt to recreate the 2004 battle, combining first-person-shooter gameplay with \u201cdocumentary-style interviews that seek to portray both the feel of urban combat and the fear experienced by those present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe usual suspects have come out of the woodwork&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/you-don-t-have-to-run-the-exclusive-reveal-for-the-war-1846543966\">to condemn the game as a \u201cwar crime game\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;and decry it as apologist propaganda for US foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. People are talking about how it harms people of color, enables white nationalism and all the same tired nonsense that\u2019s dragged out time and time again regardless of context or fact. Some have even said that commenting on the game could result in their US visa being revoked, as though the US government is eagerly watching Twitter to see if anyone says anything bad about the game,\u201d Kain wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Ferguson, a psychology professor at Stetson University, addressed the \u201cmoral panic\u201d behind the game at Psychology Today, writing that evidence doesn\u2019t support the assertions that games cause people to become violent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news, and a reason to be cautious about stating such effects, is that evidence for other video game effects outside of the violence realm has generally turned up very little.&nbsp;That\u2019s true whether we\u2019re looking at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherjferguson.com\/WomenSexualizedGames.pdf\">body-image concerns<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25844719\/\">sexist&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherjferguson.com\/Annual%20Review%20LSS.pdf\">attitudes<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1555412013493498\">pro-militaristic attitudes<\/a>. &nbsp;In general, beliefs that fictional media can influence behaviors or attitudes is largely exaggerated.&nbsp;Thus, even if the game were to portray a one-sided version of the Second Battle of Fallujah (something we don\u2019t know since the game hasn\u2019t been released)&nbsp;there\u2019s no clear reason to believe it would have particularly noticeable effects on players\u2019 attitudes toward Iraqi citizens,\u201d Ferguson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a petition on Change.org insists, without evidence, that the game would \u201cbreed a new generation of mass shooters in America and brainwash gamers into thinking&nbsp;RACISM&nbsp;IS&nbsp;OK.\u201d At the time of this writing, it appears the \u201cmass shooters\u201d assumption has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that this, or any game, is going to create \u201ca new generation of mass shooters\u201d is completely anti-science.&nbsp;At this point, the belief that video games and mass homicides have any relationship at all has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/mass-shootings-arent-growing-more-common-and-evidence-contradicts-common-stereotypes-about-the-killers-121471\">thoroughly discredited<\/a>.&nbsp;This is the kind of line that was used by anti-game crusaders 20 years ago, and it\u2019s almost surreal to see it resurrected here and signed onto by some game developers and journalists.&nbsp;It\u2019s language like this that&nbsp;suggests we\u2019re&nbsp;in&nbsp;a moral&nbsp;panic, not a careful consideration of the game,\u201d Ferguson asserted.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that these same kinds of moral panics don\u2019t get paired with war movies or books about war.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decades-old claim that video games needed to be banned because they cause violence is back, even though in that same length of time, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that no, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311863,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-926.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"People Are Trying To Get A New Video Game Banned, Claiming It Will Lead To Mass Shootings","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-926.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"People Are Trying To Get A New Video Game Banned, Claiming It Will Lead To Mass Shootings","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400127","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}