That might be a sweeping statement, but the popularized posts from The Quartering and Geeks + Gamers aren't really bringing that up as their main issues with Walsh's video. And I'm just generally indifferent to the statement myself since he added a qualification. If those sweeping statements are an issue, that's something that can be applied to lots of commentators who use generalizations, hyperbole and brevity in commentary, including many of the people criticizing Matt Walsh right now.
I do think that insertions of comments from six years ago (I saw another Geeks + Gamers video on it today and he brings up a tweet or blog post from six years ago Matt Walsh made) is a red herring IMHO.
Like here's the article...
www.dailywire.com
I don't agree with much of it and the correlation he uses seems pretty cringe but it was six years ago, its a pretty mild criticism IMHO if his goal is to "get rid of all video games." It just seems more and more like... your kids (and yourselves) should spend less time in front of "screens" in general which is something he's said far more frequently and recently.
I haven't seen Matt Walsh's video on decrying adults playing video games as a hobby. I'm sure it's cringe but I'm sure it got plenty of vociferous response and criticism from gamer types. I would say
But I did see this Matt Walsh video and outside of the final two lines/twenty seconds, it seems like a whole lot of nothing. To get the outrage and criticism this is causing, you have to go back ten months in some cases... or six years in another in order to not give him the benefit of a doubt, and still take his casually made statements in as poor an interpretation as possible to foment this sort of disagreement.
I guess overall, its not terribly important. Neither of us actually follow Matt Walsh I'm assuming, I certainly don't. But this sort of criticism/outrage just seems so exaggerated and blown out of proportion IMHO. I think there are far more legitimate and substantial targets and criticisms out there.
Like, if we never knew anything about Matt Walsh before now beyond... being a "popular right wing commentator whose never commented on video games period before" would we even get this sort of reaction from RW gaming commentators if the same video was released? If we did... then I think significant swathes of right wing commentators do have a sensitivity problem.