Islamophobic terrorist told followers to subscribe to Pewdiepie

He also said Fortnite inspired him to kill.

Can we please admit that video game culture has a huge ****ing problem with racism and promoting pointless violence?

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/03/new-zealand-gunman-says-subscribe-to-pewdiepie-moments-before-livestreaming-shooting/

I also heard he drank tea.

Another big hit from the tea manufacturers peddling their anti-multiculturalist message.

I don't think such flippancy is warranted. We're talking about the deaths of dozens of innocent people...

When all the racists love something, you have to consider asking yourself why they do. When they start slaughtering people, it only becomes more important to confront this truth.

Also lots of those racist memes like "remove kebab", some of which I've seen posted on TSR.

The shooter, by his own words was motivated by the same 'white people are being re4placesd' nonsense that people like Stephen Molenuex and Ben Shapero (both of whom Pewdiepie follows in Twitter) spread. It's the exact same ideology as the Quebec mosque shooter had, who was also a big fan of Shapero according to his browser history.

I don't think such flippancy is warranted. We're talking about the deaths of dozens of innocent people...

When all the racists love something, you have to consider asking yourself why they do. When they start slaughtering people, it only becomes more important to confront this truth.

If some murderous sociopath said a PEGI 12+ video game and YouTube celebrity inspired him, you don't blame the video game and the YouTube celebrity. It's not like thousands of people are going out and doing the same thing.

It was his own nutty hatred and beliefs that led him to kill. You don't actually get that from things children watch. The Catcher in the Rye wasn't really to blame for John Hinckley Jr. doing what he did.

He also said Fortnite inspired him to kill.

Can we please admit that video game culture has a huge ****ing problem with racism and promoting pointless violence?

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/03/new-zealand-gunman-says-subscribe-to-pewdiepie-moments-before-livestreaming-shooting/

Also lots of those racist memes like "remove kebab", some of which I've seen posted on TSR.

The shooter, by his own words was motivated by the same 'white people are being re4placesd' nonsense that people like Stephen Molenuex and Ben Shapero (both of whom Pewdiepie follows in Twitter) spread. It's the exact same ideology as the Quebec mosque shooter had, who was also a big fan of Shapero according to his browser history.

Do you have any evidence that video games are actually to blame?
Will you be banning video games now?
That they are racist?
He also mentions spyro the dragon apparently.

It's not video games per se. For example, nobody is saying candy crush turns people into monsters.

But video game culture is particularly focused around violent games. Such as fortnite, which the shooter himself referenced. Games that turn violence into, well, a game, dehumanizing opponents, rewarding them for killing... I am no psychologist, but perhaps this sort of thing has an effect on some people (who are maybe prone to blurring the lines between video games and reality) of rewiring their brains to associate killing with levelling up or something.

what's wrong with Ben Shapiro? i've heard him speak a lot of sense.

It's not video games per se. For example, nobody is saying candy crush turns people into monsters.

But video game culture is particularly focused around violent games. Such as fortnite, which the shooter himself referenced. Games that turn violence into, well, a game, dehumanizing opponents, rewarding them for killing... I am no psychologist, but perhaps this sort of thing has an effect on some people (who are maybe prone to blurring the lines between video games and reality) of rewiring their brains to associate killing with levelling up or something.

Yes it’s clear you’re no psychologist. There have been countless studies on video games and violence and none have found a correlation. Playing fortnite obviously, clearly, does not cause somebody to massacre Muslims at a mosque. What nonsense.

The notion that violence-themed entertainment causes real world violence has been around for decades, but nothing has actually been produced that links the two.

What studies? On video games in general, or the violent video games in particular?

There have been cases of people doing extraordinary things due to video games, such as a young girl sitting in her own urine because she didn't want to pause the game to go to the toilet.

Why do you think that recent terror attacks have been by fans of his? Rather than, say, fans of Slavoj Zizek?

You're not talking about the deaths of innocent people, you're talking about Pewdiepie and Fortnite. Personally I don't this kind of thread is appropriate just after such an awful tragedy.