I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
What's your view of similar phenomenons like the Satanic Panics over D&D or Pokémon?
Or perhaps Killary and Jack Thompson claiming games like GTA needed to be banned because they were turning kids into criminals?
I honestly don't remember any of that.
I do have an opinion on GTA and violent games though. They are harmless if a boy has an actual positive make influence in his life. But without one, a kid will look for a role model, and that will be a gang banger, online or TV characters, etc.
That's why black kids listen to rap and shoot up a 7/11, and white kids listen to rap and then live normal lives.
I guess that's why I grew up with a relative who LOVED rap and R&B (especially gangster and glam rap) but never felt like becoming a gangbanger or criminal.
She exposed me to people like Snoop Dogg, Cam'ron, Biggie, Nate Dogg, etc. I learned about more rappers through video game soundtracks, and I now live a life where I own a business and still don't feel like killing or robbing anyone.
How do you think parents could do a better job of stating that while explicit music and violent video games can just be entertainment, they're still just fiction and shouldn't be replicated in real life?
It makes me sad to know people in your first demographic don't have that kind of moral compass or filter.
Kids learn more by what they observe than what they are explicitly told.
If a man tells his son don't hit women, but he's constantly hitting his own wife, the kid will likely grow up thinking it is okay to hit women, and to do it himself.
So, parents don't have to tell their kids "those games are just pretend", they just need to not act violently in real life to get the message across.
I'll just be blunt, a lot of black kids are raised in fatherless homes. I think it's something like 50-85% depending on how it's defined. So they only have games/TV/celebrities as a reference.