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Ethnic cleansing game3/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Some media outlets have described this section of the manifesto in particular as “trolling” or as “bait” - and it is both of those things, certainly.Īnd yet as a scholar who studies video game culture, I do want to talk about gaming. Rather, with this statement, the killer was ridiculing a trope that has circulated in the media increasingly since the Columbine killings in 1999: that video games are capable of brainwashing vulnerable teenagers and turning them into violent sociopaths. Let’s get one thing out of the way: No, the shooter who live-streamed himself killing 50 worshipers in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, this month was not being serious when he wrote that “Spyro the Dragon 3 taught me ethno-nationalism” and “Fortnite trained me to be a killer.” ![]()
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