by randall » Feb 20, 2002 @ 1:59am
You know what is sad is that we all know these video games aren't hurting anyone, or making kids more violent. My kids have played video games since the day they could focus on the screen and tap a button. All of them read daily, do very well in school and certainly aren't troublemakers.
Now, in my lifetime, I have never witnessed racial hatred so severe as to promote a public lynching, by supposed upstanding citizens. I've never seen a man shot dead in a saloon while playing poker, simply because he was "a stinkin' cheatin' liar". I've never seen a woman or a black man revoked of their right to vote, simply because they aren't equal to a white man. Certainly these things can happen in this day and age, but they are highly unlikely compared to where the mindset was a century ago.
All these happened (and much more) throughout the history of the USA. So what accounted for that kind of violence, hatred and lack of respect before the rise of technology?
It must be nice to find such a scapegoat.