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This nigger either really thinks he can convince KiA2, or even worse actually believes, that Christians are a bigger threat to vidya, music or movies than the Left in the Year of Our Lord MMXXIII. Lmao.
Jack Thompson did not manage to damage the videogame industry even 1/100th as badly as Anita Sarkeesian did, may the Young Turks pursue her forever in the deepest pits of Hell. He's not the one responsible for Abby Armstrong being the primary standard of beauty against which every female videogame character in the West must be measured against for acceptability by their creators, the injection of woke intersectional themes and caricatures into seemingly every other AAA game, etc. after all, she is. The most fervent Bible-thumpers of the 1980s didn't hate Star Wars as much as Rian Johnson did and even if they had, they still couldn't have hurt that franchise even 1/100th as badly as he and Kathleen Kennedy have done. And so on, so forth.
Also the 'think of the children!!!'-esque censorship drive happened primarily in the 1990s, ie. the Clinton years, and I would hardly characterize Hillary Clinton or Tipper Gore (you know, the founder & main driver of the PMRC) as Bible-thumpers. Quite the contrary. The Moral Majority-backed Reagan was in charge for the 80s and that decade's entertainment was actually a good deal steamier (for both sexes!) than ours, you would be crucified for making something like Flashdance today.
Contrary to modern revisionism from game journos, the censorship of the gaming prior and up to the end of the Thompson era was an overwhelmingly bi-partisan movement. For fucks sake, anyone need only look to Hillary Clinton and her now infamous "violent video games are like lead poisoning" speech.
Censorship in the past 70 or so years has overwhelmingly been a bi-partisan point in America, and never let the revisionists tell you otherwise.
Tipper Gore was neither a Christian nor right-wing, despite what the jacka
lss above would have us believe.The anti-media fervor in the 80s through the 00s may have been puritanical, but its vanguard was primarily comprised of moralizing leftists.
It's always just about power. The busybodies in power didn't really care, other than they could seize the opportunity to put the federal government in charge of what goes in front of people's eyeballs.
Look at what public education has turned into to understand why.
Turns out, like censoring citizens online, it didn't actually need a federal law structure. Just useful idiots and backslapping from fellow retards in response to virtue signal points by performing censorship stopping just short of actual government employees hitting the buttons themselves.
And it should be explicitly stated that the vast, vast majority of politicians of any label are this way. Plenty of Republicans pay lip-service to "small" government, but how many truly follow through when they hold all the power? How many really make any progress? Actions speak far louder than words, and the reality is that Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) are not the exception like the term implies.
Expansion of state power has always been a bi-partisan goal, with each "side" believing that eventually they will be the one in control to use that power For The Greater Good™. Shockingly, it never really turns out that way, does it? Maybe doing the same thing over and over and over isn't the solution?
What I mostly remember Tipper Gore for, is getting song lyrics in all the albums, which was an awesome thing, actually. It was always such a bonus if there were lyrics with the record, because, yes, often the words WERE hard to discern thanks to poppy, scratchy vinyl records played through cheap but costly, tinny-ass speakers (or hissy cassette tape played through even worse speakers.)
"Can you play 'I Ain't Jay' by The Rolling Stones?" "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" etc
So she didn't really censor anything - the point was just so that parents would know what their kids were listening to - and her move was popular, just not for the reasons (or with the people) she intended.
Thinking further on it, I don't even really understand why there was such mockery of this, and the only people to have any reason to hate it would have been the lyrics publishers/rightsolders themselves, and/or the album publishers, but any expense related to printing lyrics would have been passed on to the customer, anyway ....
This is nothing new among leftists. Regardless of the circumstance, no matter how awful various factions act out, the nation as a whole is always, always one bad day away from turning into a Facist Christian Theocracy. Always.
if only
Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?
you know, even if these boogeyman Ebul Kristuns (read: grifter lawyers) had "won" probably the women would still be pretty as all hell, just with dresses on instead of bikinis.
i'm starting to think this forum just wants to kinkshame the dressed women fetishists of the world! how insensitive
And my point is that that's false, Christians aren't a bigger or even equivalent threat compared to leftards. If they were, the '80s (when America had a far more moralistic President who was actually, and enthusiastically, backed by the Christian right and gave them more power than Clinton ever did) would be a vastly more forgettable and more puritanical decade than it was. I literally just provided an example for all the categories you brought up - video games (Sark vs. Thompson and their consequent effects on the industry), music (the PMRC) and movies (Disney Wars) - as to why that's the case.
Hell, even the infamous 'tabletop bad/D&D will drag you to Hell' moral panic wasn't started by the Christian right, at worst Evangelicals just joined a bandwagon which first got rolling thanks not to them but to CBS' 60 Minutes special on the subject and Mazes and Monsters (a movie directed by Steven Stern and based on a book by Rona Jaffe, neither of whom seem to be right-wingers or even Christians if you take a crack at their Early Life).
Furthermore it was zealous Catholics Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito who helped strike down California's ban on the sale of 'violent' vidya to kids under a certain age, and the former (probably the most hard-right Justice the country has had post-FDR years, right up there alongside Thomas) penned the majority opinion. The person who came up with that law was not a Republican, much less any other sort of right-winger, or a Christian himself.
Are you a homo? That seems like something a homo would complain about.