Trump is going to attempt to continue the diverting active measures by scapegoating media rather than seeing actual racist deviance as a cause of mass shootings.
His admitted ignorance of media rating systems surely couldn’t be a reason, but we do know that he has issues with short-attention span.
FPS games in many cases probably made shooters’ shooting better, but no, it’s actual ideology, not the medium that compels such mass shooting.
Like the neologism, ‘stochastic terror’, it cannot be both random and not-random, so the media effect argument only weakly exonerates certain real relations like those of white supremacy among other ideological disorders.
The movies supported by Goebbels had little to do with causing actual nazism even as they reinforced certain predispositions.
And gamergaters surely couldn’t be the digital vanguard of MRA insecurities, since they might actually have to interact in meatspace with actual humans and lose the safety of their anonymity.
Tomorrow’s meeting with the entertainment software industry really won’t disguise NRA support of InfoWars ‘trutherism’, but could need President Dennison’s help to divert attention from their CTs. Yet why would the NRA be interested in debunking actual events, except to ensure that they could help sell more guns. Darn those meddling kids.
Now that Gary Cohn’s gone, his pathetic defense of the ‘both sides’ argument for Charlottesville is no less important than looking at the pathology of people who want gunfights in schools at least for the first three minutes until first responders show up … oh wait. That’s what President Dennison wants when he proposes arming teachers.
Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng of the Daily Beast have some details:
On Thursday, the White House is planning to meet with envoys of the video game industry to discuss how violent imagery on their platforms may desensitize young people to firearms—and even train them to be more effective killers. Industry sources tell The Daily Beast that they are worried the session will be an ambush—an effort to scapegoat them for shootings in schools. […]
Industry leaders were caught off guard by the announcement, with the leading trade group, the Entertainment Software Association, saying in a statement shortly after that it had received no invitation to such an event. Planning since then has been described as haphazard. Industry executives and envoys and lawmakers on Capitol Hill were eventually contacted, but when they tried to get specific details out of the administration, they ran up against roadblocks.
But there’s one more factor that renders the idea of blaming video games for mass shootings completely nonsensical, and it can’t be said often enough:
People play the same video games all over the world, but we’re the only country that has this mass shooting problem.
How strange is it that rather than look at the obvious … that the nazi perp at Parkland was buying one gun a month up to the moment of the attack, the support for whack CTs continues by the NRA. As the Miami Herald has reported, the troubles of Nikolas Cruz were nearly lifelong, even before he was allowed to purchase firearms.
The NRA is one of the few organizations left propping up conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after an exodus of advertisers from his YouTube channel.
Jones, one of the best known conspiracy theorists in America, is taking NRA ad money to finance the spread of his inane beliefs and attacks, most recently against survivors of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Jones has been one of the louder sources pushing the absurd conspiracy theory that the teenage survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are “crisis actors.” For him, the outspoken children advocating for gun reform are supposedly “Democratic Party operatives” that are being “scripted.”
And Jones’ conspiracy theories have applied to multiple school shootings, which he likes to describe as “false flag” attacks designed to aid the passage of restrictive gun laws.
After the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, Jones said the shooting was a “fake” and a “giant hoax.” Dismissing the heartbreaking loss of life, he has argued that the shooting was a “manufactured” event.
In recent years, Jones’ show has been elevated through an appearance by Trump during the campaign, and he has indicated that he has been in frequent contact with Trump since Trump was sworn in as president.