After the second world war, the allies started the denazification. It was a good and rightious thing but unfortunatly they failed and our own government also failed in some topics. Women rights, rights of homosexuals, children rights, censoreship, pension plans. Fascism was so much more then the people who did something wrong, way more than just symbols or antisemitism. It was an idea, an idea of women who're there to clean and breed, man as machines to kill and work, controlled art and press in the interest of the party, children devided from the start and conditioned for their later purpose.
But what are parties and lobbies do, if something wents wrong? They use false argument, the excact same arguments all over again and of course they are way older but at least here so good known for this time. What was the reaction if a young boy was treated bad in school from the others? Well, he should fight them! He should be strong and hit them! And a girl? Well, girls don't fight and they don't make themselves dirty. No one thought for a long time that there should be someone in the school who watches over the children and helps them with problem. Mobbing was normal and okay, because someone who is different deserved all of it unless he did something with his fist against it.
Diversity was even after the war still something which the society had to fight against, even if it wasn't done as before. Video games are like comics, like rockn roll and all the other things in the past. It is right to criticize a game, not because it features violence but because it made something good or something bad. Books, movies, music every media feature feedback from the recipient and critiques and I think games need way more here but what games and a media doesn't need is criticism by lobbies like this one here or the government. There shouldn't be rules that restrict the freedom of expression and freedom of the arts more as needed and that isn't much, mostly because games, movies, books, pictures and music can't hurt people, it is even hard to offend them, because most of the time you need to choose to deal with them, except maybe if you're living in Guantanamo.
Fiction has influence, media always had influence but the reason for unspeakable misery was the same as with guns - the people who're using them. They used radio, television and all these things to sent messages in the mind of the hearer, the watcher, the reader and the message was clearly political. There weren't diverse stories and you couldn't think about right or wrong and see both, no there was a clear white and a clear black. A message was an order or an information about an order or the consequences of an order and of course they were always good.
Video games a bigger problem than guns? I say this propaganda is a bigger problem than guns or even an atom bomb.
