The Anti-Defamation League is targeting its sights on video games and the people that create those. The ADL has figured out that all you guys are a bunch of assholes, however, they have not figured out how to keep you from being assholes quite yet, but assuredly some game devs will be getting training in how not to make you into a larger asshole than you are naturally. Please put your “A” armband on now, and attend a mandatory camp in your area.



The Anti-Defamation League is taking its fight against hate to the world of video games, starting with supporting and training game developers in hopes of eventually reaching the massive 2.6 billion person gaming audience.

On Friday, Karen Schrier, the director of games at Marist College, will discuss one of those experiments during a Games for Change panel about fostering empathy and decision-making through games. The ADL is also in the process of putting together a framework for another game jam later this year. This time it will be partnering with the Global Game Jam.

“We are going to focus on the building blocks, starting with identity issues, and have folks talk about what identity means and how that can be expressed in a game,” Kelley said. “But it’s not one and done. It’s a lifelong process of becoming aware of ways in which bias is part of life.”

Bias is the largest, base level of what the ADL calls the pyramid of hate. The pyramid’s next level is acts of bias, then discrimination, bias-motivated violence, and finally genocide.

Pyramid of hate? And here I was thinking that was a video on pr0nhub.

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