Opinion: dignified silence is the only proper response to mainstream ignorance

This afternoon, Kotaku published a news story about a boy in New York called Damori Miles who fell to his death last Tuesday imitating a wrestler from the game SmackDown vs Raw. Kotaku’s headline is ‘Wrestling Video Game Blamed for Child’s Parachuting Death’.

The story, in other words, is not that the boy died, and nor should it be, since the relationship between his death and video games is irrelevant. Instead, the story is that video games are being unfairly associated with Damori Miles’s death.