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Friendly reminder: It’s almost always the RIGHT that goes after games, not feminists. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago by NoahFuel@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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I keep seeing people try to pin the Steam/Itch censorship wave on “feminists” or “progressives.” Let’s set the record straight: the real crusade against video games has almost ALWAYS come from the Right.

1990s–2000s: Jack Thompson, conservative politicians, and Christian lobbyists blamed Doom, Mortal Kombat, and GTA for school shootings. They tried to get them outright banned.

2000s: Congress ran hearings about “protecting the children,” targeting Rockstar and Midway. Games like Bully and Manhunt were dragged into court.

Today: It’s groups like Collective Shout (a conservative, Christian-aligned org in Australia) pressuring Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal to choke off funding. U.S. Republicans push bills like KOSA, obscenity laws, and age verification that threaten all online content.

Meanwhile, feminists and progressive devs have been the ones defending creative freedom. all we did as just SLIGHTLY criticize some of the goonerbait designs and refused to support Hogwarts Legacy since JKR would 100% use the money she made from the game to fund anti-trans bills

the same people who blamed Anita Sarkeesian for “censorship” are now celebrating when Collective Shout goes after LGBTQ+ creators.

Let’s not rewrite history. The far-right has always been the biggest enemy of video games. They’re the ones still trying to erase queer content, control adult art, and dictate what can and can’t exist.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One of the first cultural wins for the modern right was switching the average apolitical person's view of who the most annoying people in politics were. For a long time it was right wing Christian groups, but some time during the Obama era it became progressives.

And like all right wing viewpoints, it was completely disconnected from reality. Groups who've never had any political power in their life became widely believed to be running society, and things that have never happened became believed to be happening everywhere and be those groups' fault.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

I at least partially blame South Park for changing the narrative to ”those whiny liberals are just as bad as the people who want to ban everything”. The rest of the work was done by that post-9/11 attitude where implying that wanting to glass the Middle East is bad was enough to get you labeled as a bleeding heart terrorist sympathizer.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago

or a long time it was right wing Christian groups, but some time during the Obama era it became progressives.

Probably because of the 2008 crisis which destroyed the star trekian "end of history colorblind utopia" idea of the future. There was not longer a need for it, globalism was in its terminal phase.