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.