Canadian Prime Minister: 'we need to fight GamerGate and videogame misogyny'

[noname2200]

padib said:

noname2200 said:

On the contrary: as a person in a position of power, it behooves him to get educated on a subject before spouting off about it in a public forum. I get the impression he knows about as much about the subject as I do, but where that leads me to largely keep mum about it, he decides to include it in one of his first addreses as head of state. Of course, this assumes his understanding of the topic is actually limited.

He's the new prime minister of a country, is it realistic to expect him to know the ins and outs of a topic neither you nor I, hands deep in the gaming world, have a complete idea about?

If he decides to speak about it publicly? Yes. Opinion leaders have a big forum and lots of influence: their ignorant remarks have caused such headaches as the spread of the anti-vaccine movement, among other inaccurate and harmful causes. I sincerely doubt this particular one off will have as negative a set of consequences, but my point remains: if you know people are going to listen to you, you have the responsibility to first know what you're talking about.