Why Leftists Brought The Culture War To Video Games

The new Mario movie seems to be getting a better reception than the 1993 version. Gaming has now become so mainstream that TV shows and movies about them are now becoming normal. Gone are the days of people giving you a funny look for saying you enjoy playing video games. But there’s a danger in becoming more mainstream. It creates an incentive for bad actors to hijack whatever we’re talking about and twist it to their own ends.

While it’s great that the hobby is engaging more people, the wrong kind of people are engaging with gaming, and there’s definitely an infection taking root. The left couldn’t use gaming as a tool to push propaganda before because it wasn’t mainstream enough. But now that gaming is receiving some form of cultural recognition, leftist ideology is seeping into games-based media.

There’s a danger in the games we love become vessels for woke messaging, and so there needs to be a concerted effort to protect gaming from this.

Gatekeeping might seem uncomfortable, but it is necessary. Not everyone should be involved in this hobby. There absolutely are people out there that just want to ruin the fun for everyone else. Gatekeeping is needed to keep those types out but it is a balancing act. We can’t just slam the door shut on new players, but we can’t just stand by and watch as the games we love become corrupted.

It’s great that gaming is receiving cultural recognition, but there’s a danger in it becoming too mainstream. The natural barrier of uncoolness that protected gaming from bad actors before is gone, and it’s going to require a concerted effort to protect gaming from the left.