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BIG GOVERNMENT BIG JOURNALISM BIG HOLLYWOOD NATIONAL SECURITY BREITBART TV BREITBART LONDON BREITBART TEXAS BREITBART CALIFORNIA E DOES NOT MAKE SUPPORTING GAMERGAT YOU A BULLY reports came out last weekend of developer Brianna Wu t labeling it a hate group g industry. When Anita over anonymous death threats, the backlash against GamerGate press I'll admit I wavered. I wondered if maybe, however important the issues championed by the GamerGate movement, it had become too toxic of a banner for activism seeking integrity and industry transparency anti-GamerGate articles making that argument. It was tempting: the constant theme of these pieces was, "Hey, maybe you're in this for the right reasons. Maybe you do really just care about legitimate concerns with the gaming industry and press, but there are bullies who are claiming affiliation with GamerGate and harassing women in the industry. You're Nobody wants to be the bad guy. It's easy to be disheartened when you have to spend half random a------ decided to threaten someone. Maybe it was time to just back away Then I watched the media dogpile throughout the week besmirch thousands of gamers as campaign to threaten, degrade, and ultimately silence women. I listened to the of your goals and beliefs because some impassioned voices of women within the GamerGate community refuse to be shamed into And then I watched real buillies expose Ultimately GamerGate is reaffirming what we've known to be true for decades: nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission - Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) October 16, 2014 Sarcastic Vindictive White Manchild Nerds are a greater material threat to my way of life than ISIL -Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) October 15, 2014 this is the face of egamergate. a young man wearing an anime t-shirt and a scarf, yelling into a webcam. pic.twitter.com/K2K7DKYoZE ーSam Biddle (@samfbiddle) We're Offering $10,00o For Unretouched Photos of a Male Gamergate Participant Would Actually F--- Erin Gloria Ryan (@morninggloria) October 16, 2014 And that's when I felt ashamed of myself for considering taking the easy way out and slinking off to leave people who love gaming and are passionate about reforming this How did the evil, violent members of GamerGate respond? By launching a fundraiser for the PACER Center, an organization dedicated to "expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families." At the time over $10,00o in donations. It's actions like these that give the lie to the media smear campaign to brand GamerGate as a hate movement. This follows the effort by early GamerGate supporters to step in and wonmen in the gaming industry, after attempts to derail their fundraising campaign by progressive It doesn't matter," critics say. "GamerGate is toxic. People have been harassed by individuals associated with it. You need to give it up. This is a coward's argument: I don't want to engage you on a subject that's uncomfortable for me, so I'll claim your entire movement is illegitimate because of the actions of fringe extremists. It doesn't matter how many times you denounce and try to counter the actions of those extremist outliers, I'm going to associate you with them so that nothing you say hundreds of millions of peaceful Muslims as terrorists because of the existence of al Qaeda and ISIS. Try making that argument and see what the response from the social justice advocate members of the gaming press would be. At the same time, if the anti-GamerGate crowd wants to argue that the despicable actions of rogue members of a community are representative of the whole, they might want to check the structural integrity of the glass house they're inhabiting. There has been no shortage of harassment, abuse, and criminal activity from anti-GamerGate activists as Allum Bolkhari detailed in his excellent GamerGate article at TechCrunch. And remember that weeks have passed since he collected these examples. Pack it up, game journalists, your supporters have engaged in death threats, dooing. and hacking. By your own logic, your "That's absurd!" they'd cry, if any of them had the guts to actually report on the criminal actions of the anti-GamerGate crowd. No s--- Supporting GamerGate does not make you a bully. It doesn't make you a misogynist shitlord, it doesn't make you a loser, a self transparent and more accountable does not make you an awful person. Because, let's face woman the gaming press to be industry does need to grow up. While these gaming journalists are attacking the gaming community, disparaging you as adolescent neckbeards outraged that women are allowed into the boys club, that same press still operates as nothing more than glorified PR platforms for a gaming industry still and garages instead of the multi-billion dollar corporate juggernaut it's become. We're tired of reading the same regurgitated press releases as though they account for legitimate previews. We're tired of quality assurance employees being treated like disposable slave labor and then gigantie corporations throwing up their hands and acting like it was impossible for them to anticipate major releases being unplayable until a year after their launch. We're tired of seeing talented programmers, artists, and writers being sacked en masse because the game they released averaged one percentage point less than for real change in this industry, yet the gaming press only has the spine to attack games through a political blame on backwards consumers' demands You want to talk about marginalizing female and minority voices in the gaming community? How many times have game writers trivialized GamerGate supporters using the NotYourShield hashtag, calling minority gamers tokens or fakes? Is that supposed to be empowering when members of the gaming press dismiss you and treat you like a sideshow? How does it make you feel when bloggers tell you you're foolish for supporting GamerGate, that you're misinformed and deluded? Never fear, minority members of the gaming community, the cavalcade of predominantly white male gaming writers are here to tell you how they know better than you about your beliefs and experiences! Gaming jouralists want to bemoan the fact that gamers are now being portrayed as knuckle-dragging women-haters in the national mainstream press? They have no one to blame but themselves. Instead of reporting impartially on the GamerGate issue, they first ignored and censored the controversy, then went on the offensive against their own audience to delegitimize anyone who questioned their integrity, When the mainstream press began covering GamerGate looking from the outside in to the gaming community, there was little to read on the subject that didn't depict GamerGate supporters as rabid I've experienced bullying. I've dealt with clinical depression. I lost two years of my life that e and cocktail of anti-depressants and intensive therapy before I was able to become functional enough to resume schooling and get on with my life. I still struggle with those issues. I'm not conceited enough to ascribe what I've gone through to the entire gaming community, but I also don't believe that my life has been so unique that there aren't a number of gamers who've had similar experiences as me. As a result, one of the more welcoming communities you could ever find is gamers, Many of us have gone through life being reminded at all times that we're different from many around us. Gaming is a unifying passion for millions of people where it doesn't matter if you're nerdy or eccentrie or different. You love games? Let's talk about them. Grab a controller and sit down for some co-op; you've We've been bullied long enough. The massive trust deficit between a large part of the gaming community and the gaming press has been building for years, and by continuing to attack and misrepresent these readers-when all they're asking for are editorial policies that put consumers' interests before developers'-will only widen that divide. And it'd be a short-sighted move to declare war on their audience to maintain cozy relationships with publishers, because the real source of their advertiser cash is the much-reviled "nerd,who buys games. As we've seen with high-profile companies pulling ads from gaming websites-to much praise and promises of brand loyalty from interests in the tech and gaming world are already voting with their dollars that, in this case, the customer is right. Follow Noah Dulis on Twitter @Marshal Dou

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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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