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-1 ProfessorStokes 112 points 12 hours ago We're at war with antihumanism and the postmodernist reasoning behind such ideas as New Historicism O. This is something that knows no political affiliation. As documented in Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt's Higher Superstition , this sort of nihilistic anti-science full of foregone conclusions and closed circular thinking has spread to the Intelligent Design debate, business classes, the academic left, it's everywhere. It's an attack on the entire foundations of science and post-Enlightenment knowledge. I presume most of us at least appreciate the benefits of science and value their own human agency, which antihumanism says doesn't exist. We're supposedly unthinking products of our media and culture. According to Christina Hoff Sommers herself in Who Stole Feminism?O, Michel Foucault is the one of the most cited philosophers in what she describes as gender feminism'. Both Foucault and Jacques Derrida in particular are responsible for a good chunk of the philosophical game that allows one to find hauntings and signs of malice in any facet of life you'd care to look in. To understand what postmodernist thought is like, try to imagine a world where all of the following is true: There existed a force before any of us were alive that has shaped our consensus on reality. Nothing we say, think or create escapes this force's influence. In postmodern feminism: patriarchy, eco-activists: the petrochemical conspiracy whatever you want, this is generic! In light of this force, reality itself is an illusion created by consensus. There is no 'real world', there's just everyone's individual interpretations of it and we'll never understand the intersection of everyone's interpretations, so give up on truth already! Things do not exist unless we agree that they do! The oppressors benefited by this force do not have the right to define reality for the oppressed! In practice: There's no truth, only points of view and I insist you treat my narrative as the actual truth, since it's just as good as yours or science's or anyone's! Science itself is tainted by this outside force, it is a socially constructed system that is attempting to define reality by oppression. Science attempts to preserve the culture it was created from, made up of dead white Christian European men. It doesn't discover facts about reality, it invents them with arcane language games and consensus. Translation: Your science is no good here, because it's tainted! So there! In fact, words have no meaning. They're all socially constructed and agreed upon. Nothing is actually definable, everything is all made up. In practice: We don't have to define nor stick to anyone's definition of 'harassment', 'threats' or whatever we can just use whatever word we feel will get the reaction we want from others. If we feel it's'harassment', then it is. There is no possibility to know the author or their intentio way of saying 'Attack the message, not the messenger', which would almost seem reasonable if it were not being used to justify everything else and deflect questions such as 'How can you be conveying these ideas to me, even though you yourself are part of this tainted culture? Aren't you also tainted?'. It reframes the conversation back to all that exists is work or text'. On its surface it looks like a come WI ritarianism built-in, after all all about consensus of narratives ratives se actu be true believers i true believing postmodernists, they just love the perfect clickbait journalism. True believers do exist however and their lives must be truly frightening to them. There's plenty of more of this fatalistic sophistry if you Foucault makes it a point to nta uch so decries sCI some unfo ical tru mea ru They nced by Derri econstruct rowback t rs ru text, except now with postmodern interpretati completely unfettered by rules or rationality. If you want to force a text to imply some sort of weird pun and then use that as part of a call someon select a completely ch erry-picked knock yoursel camp m postmodernism is mixing t least a few of these assaults on logic most famous being: We patriarchy' as the postmodernist defines it, is real, a systematic conspiracy into every facet of life a be probed exce ust wa losed system t be contested can use to scream today's variation of bourgeois! is, be it 'misogynist! or worse. Whatever that person feels is appropriate. They have 'proof it starts with their feelings. The Thick of It has a scene that I think perfectly captures the essence of postmodern politics: Hugh Abbot: So what are we gonna do now? com Hugh Abbot: Hang do second... Malcolm... That's not nouncement yo Hugh Abbot: No re were meras there whileI was not Hugh Abbot: I'm not sure what level of reality lm s run w eve that you t REALL never interest re not g get what you omorrow LS Is W nts odernism Richard Da ost Modernism How to Deconstruct Almost Anything: My own over mlesS m brewing for

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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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