Slasher condemns \u201cexploitative\u201d U.S. Military recruitment of CoD players on NBC ActivisionEsports consultant Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau made an appearance on Newsnation and was asked if gamers or Call of Duty pros make good soldiers. In response, \u2018Slasher\u2019 denied any correlation between war and gaming. Military entities and esports have a well-documented history. In April, Richard Lewis, Dexerto\u2019s Editor-At-Large, called on tournament organizer ESL to cease its partnership with the US Air Force. USSA Insurance is a Call of Duty League sponsor, and the US Army was a sponsor before allegedly cutting ties amid the Activision Blizzard Lawsuit. NewsNation invited \u2018Slasher\u2019 on to discuss why army recruitment is down and if CoD players would be a good fit to help the shortage. Slasher urges esports community to push back against military Senior National Correspondent, Brian Entin, asked the esports consultant if it\u2019s a good idea for military recruiters to reach people through video games. Slasher answered, \u201cI find it exploitative. I find it insidious that these streamers are recruiting gamers and young people on Twitch under the guise of just playing video games, but they are really there as recruiters.\u201d Breslau said violent video games and military service correlate less than people think. He said violent video games, television, and music, are just forms of entertainment. \u201cPeople cannot expect pro gamers in Call of Duty to be adept at going into the military.\u201d The video game insider concluded by calling the esports community to action. He cited the community\u2019s push back against Russian esports players and teams and Saudia Arabian money. \u201cWe have to bring that same energy to the American military and not allow them and all of their money to come into our community without any pushback.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Slasher condemns \u201cexploitative\u201d U.S. Military recruitment of CoD players on NBC ActivisionEsports consultant Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau made an appearance on Newsnation and was asked if gamers or Call of Duty pros make good soldiers. In response, \u2018Slasher\u2019 denied any correlation between war and gaming. Military entities and esports have a well-documented history. In April, Richard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}