lovelylinkle:

phanemotrash:

garashirs:

look i’m not saying that children shouldn’t be allowed to play video games or anything like that but the fact that kids as young as EIGHT are using misogynistic, homophobic and racial slurs in casual conversations because they heard their favorite streamer or opponent on a video game say it is something that urgently needs addressing

This has nothing to do with a video game, it has to do with parenting. Parents should be teaching their children what is/isn’t an appropriate word to say. I grew up playing video games and listening to music full of words/phrases that shouldn’t be used, but my parents taught me and my siblings what words we shouldn’t use. They also didn’t say things like “because they’re inappropriate” or “because that’s a bad word”, they’d explain why it’s wrong to use. It’s the same thing with the “video games cause violence” argument. It’s not the game, it’s the parenting.

I mean although this is a fair critique of parenting acting like twitch streamers are completely innocent is just dishonest. The media you consume affects what you think is okay and a kid seeing someone they like saying slurs is going to start thinking slurs are okay to say no matter what their parents have said