{"id":421008,"date":"2021-04-14T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421008"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:58:40","slug":"woke-gamers-looking-to-censor-six-days-in-fallujah-before-theyve-even-played-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-gamers-looking-to-censor-six-days-in-fallujah-before-theyve-even-played-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Gamers Looking To Censor \u2018Six Days In Fallujah,\u2019 Before They\u2019ve Even Played It"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwoke-gamers-looking-to-censor-six-days-in-fallujah-before-theyve-even-played-it%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=421008&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-1832.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The \u201990s called. They want their moral panic-induced censorship back.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it\u2019s like the games \u201cjournalists\u201d of today don\u2019t remember Jack Thompson\u2019s failed crusade in the 1990s and early 2000s. His claims that video games caused violence were eventually dismissed (he was also disbarred for unrelated reasons), with little to no evidence supporting his theories.<\/p>\n<p>But the ghost of the still-alive Thompson legacy has once again reared its ugly head, this time in the form of a concentrated effort to censor one particular video game \u2014 that no one has played \u2014 claiming it <em>will<\/em> lead to violence, even though such claims have failed to prove true in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example is the upcoming game \u201cSix Days in Fallujah,\u201d which sounds like a pretty cool concept for a game, combining gameplay and documentary in an attempt to show what it was like for everyone involved in the Second Battle of Fallujah back in 2004 \u2014 including U.S. troops, Iraqi troops, and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Kain, who regularly writes about video games, explained that \u201cSix Days in Fallujah\u201d was <em>not<\/em> \u201cCall Of Duty,\u201d a famous video-game series that some claim as some kind of \u201cwar crime\u201d game.<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u201cSix Days in Fallujah\u201d has been lumped in with \u201cCall Of Duty,\u201d even though the former hasn\u2019t even been released, and so no one who is condemning it has actually played it yet.<\/p>\n<p>The usual voices are seeking to ban this game before it even goes to market. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a press release last week insisting the game \u2014 which, again, no one has even played \u2014 is basically an \u201cArab murder simulator\u201d that \u201cglorifies violence that took the lives of over 800 Iraqi civilians, justifies the illegal invasion of Iraq and reinforces Islamophobic narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAIR has a tendency to argue this position regarding anything which portrays Americans at war with Islamic countries, so it\u2019s predictable they would attach the claim to something they haven\u2019t seen. They\u2019ve also moved beyond their press release and are now actively petitioning Sony and Microsoft to keep \u201cSix Days in Fallujah\u201d from their online stores, despite there being no evidence that so-called Islamophobia is fueled when a new war-based video game (or movie, or documentary, or TV show) is released.<\/p>\n<p>However, games journalists \u2014 who are supposed to cover games \u2014 are actively rooting for \u201cSix Days in Fallujah\u201d to be banned. The Houston Press ran an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wc2mR\">opinion piece<\/a> from someone who built upon CAIR\u2019s words to make numerous assumptions about the game, comparing it to \u201cCut-and-paste military shooters with racist bents\u201d and suggesting it would be \u201cyet another adventure where we focus on how hard killing foreigners and people of color is on Americans while still not addressing why we did it in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kotaku, one of the most notorious outlets for \u201cwoke\u201d commentary on video games, also parroted CAIR\u2019s press release and suggested the game should be banned on various platforms, calling it \u201ca step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, there is little to no evidence that video games cause any of the world\u2019s ills, as Stetson University psychology professor Christopher Ferguson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/checkpoints\/202103\/the-moral-panic-over-the-six-days-in-fallujah-game\">wrote<\/a> at Psychology Today.<\/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>. 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>If people want to boycott a service or product as an individual, that\u2019s fine, but trying to get something widely banned over misplaced concerns that someone, somewhere might be hurt goes a step too far. The flip side, of course, is that all these outlets and organizations are giving the game <em>more<\/em> publicity, which will likely help the developers.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, Sony and Microsoft give in to a small number of activists with big microphones. After all, we\u2019ve seen it happen before.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/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 \u201990s called. They want their moral panic-induced censorship back.Seriously, it\u2019s like the games \u201cjournalists\u201d of today don\u2019t remember Jack Thompson\u2019s failed crusade in the 1990s and early 2000s. 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