NY High School Bans “Assassin” Game, Completely Misses Point
NY High School Bans “Assassin” Game, Completely Misses Point
Isn’t is just adorable when adults stumble onto some fun thing their kids do, a thing that that they don’t understand, and then make that thing completely irresistible by telling their kids they can’t do it?
As with jazz, rock and roll, dirty dancing, voguing, krumping, D.H. Lawrence, Pokemon, and rainbow parties before, adults are again flying into a moral panic. This time, ironically, it’s all over a game that they or their friends likely played. Officials at Hunter College High School in Manhattan are cracking down on students who play Assassin, a meatspace game often undertaken as a post-exams stress reliever. It sounds violent, and yes, the game tasks players with “killing” off their competitors one by one often employing stealth and subterfuge, but it’s traditionally played with water pistols or Nerf dart guns.
Quoth the nbcnews.com article:
“Parents and students should know that we consider this a dangerous game and prohibit playing it on campus,” Hunter College High School Principal Tony Fisher wrote in an email to parents last week. “You should be aware that any students found playing the game within the school or in the immediate vicinity of the building will receive disciplinary consequences.”
The dangers, say adults, are myriad:
The game could cause players to dart out into traffic to avoid an assassin;
lead to a player being mistaken for an actual assailant;
or give real-life gang members who, oh, decide to paint their real guns to look like Super Soakers the ability to confound police.
http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2013/05/21/toy-gun-ban-assassin-game/
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