The Australian Christian Lobby is a big problem.

It looks like the ACL won't back the new R18+ draft.

http://australianchristianlobby.org.au/2011/07/mr-norwegian-tragedy-highlights-impact-of-violent-video-games/

“If there are even a few deranged minds that can be taken over the edge by an obsession with violent games it is in every Australians interest that we ban them."

Funny they jump right on the one passing mention of a video game when the world at large is more worried about his extremist right-wing, Christian values.

Oh and then there's this:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-26/breivik-manifesto-praises-australian-conservatives/2810730 

i thought it was up to the governor generals of each state to decide?

“If there are even a few deranged minds that can be taken over the edge by an obsession with bibles it is in every Australians interest that we ban them."

How can an island full of convicts be so conservative about violence?

As I posted in the other thread about the manifesto, it's disgusting that the ACL considers video games the corrupting influence in that matter...not the fact that the dude went on a mass murder spree to "preserve Christendom from the rising influence of Islam."  Tear my fucking hair out.

How can an island full of convicts be so conservative about violence?

I don't know that the Australian Christian Lobby are that big a problem, but they certainly are annoying. That said, the classification system in this country is far too easily influenced by groups like the ACL. Wallace is a gigantic arse who'll take advantage of any situation, no matter how tragic, to promote his and his lobby's crap.

@mylifeforAiur said:

@Pezen said:

How can an island full of convicts be so conservative about violence?

Seriously, dude. It's 2011, convict-jokes are incredibly lazy.

The joke has been running strong for hundreds of years why stop the mediocrity now?

@mylifeforAiur: I am fully aware it's not the 18th century. And I think it's a shame modern thinking people still have to suffer the intellectually retarded conservatives around the world ruining all the fun. But that doesn't mean I can't make a bad joke for my own amusement.

@bushpusherr said:

As I posted in the other thread about the manifesto, it's disgusting that the ACL considers video games the corrupting influence in that matter...not the fact that the dude went on a mass murder spree to "preserve Christendom from the rising influence of Islam." Tear my fucking hair out.

You have an awesome beard.

I like that the only comment on that article is better written and more well thought out that the article itself:

BrianJ says:

26 July 2011 at 7:36 am

In the light of this monstrous tragedy it is more and more apparent that we must live, show, practice, display and encourage… tolerance and acceptance of everyone, both privately and publicly, especially publicly. That a child can turn into an adult that resorts to actions like this must surely be through an upbringing that included intolerance and discrimination against groups based on nothing but race or religion, and this must have been part of his daily life. He thought it was normal to engage in hatred and prejudice, against groups that did not follow his ideas.

I bring this up because just last night on a commercial television station a reporter was displaying the ‘failure of multiculturalism’ through an extremely contrived situation with the aim to shock the audience and make them fear the ‘foreigner’. It completely ignored the tragic economic and social conditions these people suffered under, rather it highlighted that they were of another religious group than ‘us’.

Video game violence might affect users of video games, this is feasible. TV and the media inciting fear and hatred of groups based on nothing but race or religion is a thousand times more persuasive and insidious. I don’t remember growing up with media coverage so hostile and xenophobic, do you? I remember growing up with less media attention on racial/religious differences, with more acceptance. Am I fooling myself?