You know, in today's world where the constitutional rights of my favorite medium are being questioned in a supposedly free nation that respects personal expression, where opportunistic politicians and media types jump on any story remotely involving violence and videogames based on pure speculation, this story got my blood boiling.
Why shouldn't Kobe shill for the Call of Duty series? Is it because he's a sports icon who thousands of young impressionable youths look up too and would become violent miscreants thanks to the subversive nature of violent vidogames? Bullshit! It's because we have the double whammy of a minority icon and a media whipping boy and the vultures couldn't resist.
I remember a few years ago the uproar over 50 Cent's then new Movie Get Rich or Die Tryin', in which the ads depicted him with a firearm. Moral guardians and members of the local community decried him, much like Kobe, in supporting a subversive form of media that would harm the children. Except that we had the same thing but with two more famous actors in the same pose and no one said a thing! The fact was that Mr. Cent got more flack because he was a minority figure caught in the crossfire of a hot button topic exactly like Kobe.
Really, both ideas that minority figures have to be put thru more scrutiny and violent videogames are the sole cause of violent tendencies in children and by banning them we can remedy this situation makes me sick to my stomach.
-BO
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