Watch T-Pain Wipe Out an Entire Team of Racists While Playing Call of Duty
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Call of Duty or other violent war video games (I’m much more of an
Animal Crossing/Zelda gamer myself), but I do know, even without frequenting those games, there’s a ton of wildly racist and misogynistic shit that often goes down in COD lobbies and in other online gaming communities, with slurs and racist gamer tags fully normalized. In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the mass protests that ensued last June,
Call of Duty’s developer pledged to crack down on racism in their own gaming communities but offered little detail on how they would accomplish that.
desensitization to killing. i was desensitized to killing on the battlefield. i know how to not glorious it is. it s not glorious to see somebody cry out for their family. that s not a glorious thing. that s not what people get out of playing call of duty. i think there s far too much that is desensitized in a way that s unhealthy. shannon: there s a lot of discussions i ve heard. people talking about our culture and where we are with movies, music, games that are so realistic. a lot of young people who are hurting. the school superintendent talking about mental health issues. this person is 19. he is technically an adult. what can be done to encourage people to get help with mental health especially if they don t think they needed and they don t
desensitization to killing. i was desensitized to killing on the battlefield. i know how to not glorious it is. it s not glorious to see somebody cry out for their family. that s not a glorious thing. that s not what people get out of playing call of duty. i think there s far too much that is desensitized in a way that s unhealthy. shannon: there s a lot of discussions i ve heard. people talking about our culture and where we are with movies, music, games that are so realistic. a lot of young people who are hurting. the school superintendent talking about mental health issues. this person is 19. he is technically an adult. what can be done to encourage people to get help with mental health especially if they don t think they needed and they don t
that will be arriving in new york city very soon to investigate this. we ll watch it throughout the morning. as developments and headlines become available back on that breaking news here on america s newsroom. martha: you ve seen a lot of that, right? vice president joe biden meeting with the makers of video games companies like the one you just saw in a push for answers on gun violence in this country because we are trying to figure out all of the come poepb interests that might lead to what we saw in newtown and many other places. adam lanza reportedly spent his case playing call of duty in the basement of his mother s house. there are new questions as to whether responsibility to police-violent video games really lies with the parents.
liberal fact check.org reported this this week, that gun violent death, murders are down to the lowest point since at least 1981. gun violence overall has been trending down for the past 20 years. what happened during that same 20 years? there was a rise in the use of video games. nobody thinks that chicago has 506 murders this past year because of the number of game stops on the corners. martha: i understand. and i agree with you. whenever we hear when you start to get into the minds of these twisted individuals, it tends to be a common trait that you find out that, yes, indeed, they have been playing these kind of games, halo, and call of duty and all of these in their basements and i wonder if when you have somebody who is in this situation that you re concerned about, you know, perhaps you need to make sure that they are not doing this. but how do you legislate that? is it the parents responsibility? well, how do you legislate it? for example i have a 13-year-old, who watches