As the Digital World Turns

Hillary Clinton via Kotaku: [About Grand Theft Auto] This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s OK to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different color or they’re from a different place.

That’s a crock of shit. In GTA you’re supposed to “diss” people regardless of their color, sex, or location. Everyone gets smacked around as equals, which is just about as unbiased as you can get. In fact, this reminds me of the hubbub about “hate crime”… I’ll never understand why a hate crime carries a heavier sentence than the crime itself. How is targeting someone for an assault for their color, sex or location worse than just random or justified assault? Either way, lock the son of a bitch up, and be done with it… why highlight a biased crime? Well, aside from the fact that the media can play up a hate crime better than they could a regular ol’ crime… Screw that: it should be the same heavy sentence regardless of intent or reason. I can’t believe that this is lost on the mass populous, much less the elected officials.

Then again, how can I take any elected official that uses “diss” in an official speech all that seriously?


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