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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.
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.