Polygon: All Posts by Keith Burgunhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/42931/favicon.ico2015-06-24T13:30:02-04:00https://www.polygon.com/authors/keith-burgun/rss2015-06-24T13:30:02-04:002015-06-24T13:30:02-04:00Stop worrying about video game violence, and start thinking about dehumanization
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<p>I remember how happy I was <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28activist%29">the day Jack Thompson was disbarred</a>.</p>
<p>Thompson, a Florida lawyer who brought repeated lawsuits against the videogame industry, was basically a joke to everyone I knew, and rightly so. It wasn’t like he had some "expertise" on the subject, or that he was responding to scientific, peer-reviewed studies of video game violence on people. Instead, he seemed to represent many parents of 1990s kids who didn’t know much about games, but they sure didn’t like what they were seeing.</p>
<p>At the time, I saw it as out-of-touch moralizing from a bunch of people who didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. Our generation pictured them in the classic "parents just don’t understand" trope. It was just like when their...</p>
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https://www.polygon.com/2015/6/24/8834027/video-game-violence-dehumanizationKeith Burgun