I'm not sure this is the same thing. Sexist/racist games & films, yes. Violent ones might come from an older intuition around corruption.
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Fears of degeneracy from the sanctity/degradation foundation. Rather than a theoretical position on power of discourse to construct reality
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I am not sure about this tho, having not spent nearly as much time talking to people who fear violence in video games etc.
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Is it not related though? Controversial/violent ideas in films and games are harmful in the same way as in speech.
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It's analogous but I'm not sure it comes from the same source. Just like atheism was & still is seen as a corrupting influence. Also porn.
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This is an old impulse &underlies heresy/blasphemy but the fear of corrupting what is good is different to the urge to dismantle what is bad
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Or, they might say, it reinforces the bad or the status quo.
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Yes, it is the lefties who see status quo as bad & themselves as continuing the project of dismantling oppressive systems.
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Thanks! This is why I just wrote a thing with James Lindsay abt the need to defend modernity rather than the left or the right.
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