Currently, Joker is making quite a buzz around SJWs and so-called “woke” people. According to them, this movie is a bad influence on the society and provoke violence considering its subject matter. Some even think that it glorifies a villain and promotes psychopathic behavior.
While I completely understand the current climate around the world regarding gun violence, are we really this pathetic to brush our faults on video games and movies? This is yet another cowardly habit our society has; an instinct that keeps us from owning up to our own cultural failures.
Neither movies nor video games encourage killing school children. People suffering from chronic depression or anxiety don’t go out there killing people. It’s insulting to their very real sufferers that, whenever such an act is committed, the immediate assumption is that it’s them.
It’s time that we stop blaming gamers, mental health, loneliness and movies for these mass shootings. Movies do not encourage you to be a violent person, it’s you and only you who is responsible for your actions.
Sophrosyne 