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PapayaSF 2 days ago In many ways Gamergate seems like an extension of what the social justice warriors have been doing in science fiction and fantasy fandom in recent years. Fandom is supposedly a hotbed of racism and sexism and homophobia, a bizarre charge to anyone who has been in it for a long time. Of course, there is bad behavior in both areas: fans and gamers are often socially-awkward geeks, duh. But in the SJW worldview, it's not enough to tell individuals to knock it off and be polite. No, anything the most thin-skinned might object to is a manifestation of a dreaded "ism" or "phobia," so everything is escalated to a civil rights issue, if not civil war. There's lots of self-serving posturing and being offended on behalf of other people SJWs are in the same category as other social reformers, and I don't mean suffragettes and civil rights campaigners. I mean Anthony Comstock, Prohibitionists, League of Decency types, Fredric Wertham, even old-time Christian missionaries: self appointed guardians of other people's morals. It's the same condescending censorious, blue-nosed, self-righteous attitude, just with different content. (And not always different: the old bluenoses objected to "bad language and depictions of sexy women, too.) Instead of the "I'm following the Bible and you're not" attitude, the SJW viewpoint is that members of designated victim groups (and their champions) are allowed to criticize anyone, but nobody can criticize them, because racism/sexism/homophobia. By self-definition, it's what "good" people believe, and if you don't agree, you're not "good." It's neatly self-contained and designed to be immune from criticism Unfortunately, the SJW worldview has made great strides in science fiction world. It's cost some people their jobs, gotten a number of guests of honor disinvited from conventions, gotten awards for sub-standard but politically correct stories. Even calls for race and gender quotas in fiction are taken seriously. But perhaps the tide is turning, with these revelations of self-serving actions and corruption among the "enlightened" "defenders of the oppressed." Good 14 ^ | 、 . Reply . Share

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu

Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26

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