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It's dangerous to go alone! GASLIGHTING A form of mental abuse which a person excludes pieces of information or presents false information with the intent of making you question your memory COMPOSITION FALLACY Also known as Part of the Whole" Fallacy Similar to "Guilt by Association If something is true of a part it must be true of the whole Person A of #GamerGato said "Y. Therefore all #GamerGate supports ·Y' Counterpoint Religious people of the same religion can hold different beliofs about politics ASSOCIATION FALLACY Promiso A is aB Conclusion Therefore, all Bs are Cs This person supports harassment This person also supports #GamerGat@ Therefore all of #GamerGate supports harassment All dogs have four legs My cat has four legs Therefore, my cat is a do This fallacy is often used as an Ad Hominem attack DEFLECTIONS/RED HERRINGS Poisoning the Well Presenting adverse information to an audience with the intention of discrediting the opponent Example This #GamerGate supporter is also a misogynist Therefore you should not listen to what they say It is possible to bo a misogynist and still have a proper argument for or against something For example, a misogynist could argue against the idea that the world is flat. The claim is still correct The occusation con be toise. The #GomerGose supporter may not actually be a misagynist. But it is used to discredit them Straw man Porson 1 asserts proposition X Person 2 argues against a false but similar proposition Y, as if that were an argument against X I want to talk about ethics l don't want to talk about harassment. #GamerGate Supporter This person doesn't care I was harassed!" Straw Man The Straw Man made the false assertion that the #GamerGate Supporter does not care about them being harassed. The Straw Man is attempting to doflect the conversation away from othics. Argum ent by Assertion Repeating a point by asserting it is true Regardless if it is true or not xamples ial Example B: [valid argument Cl: therofore X is true B: [valid argument C): therefore X is true A: Argument C isnonsense; theroforo X is false Counterpoint This is "Listen and Believe" in a nutshell Regardless of valid evidence or arguments, the opponent will never admit they are wrong It is important that the grgument or evidence is valid. If you gre unable to convince them that your argument is valid -ask them to defend X with an argumh@nt or evidence, rath than 1h@ir own assertion. You con then debunk their argument or evidence Ad Hominem An attack against a person's character rather than the content of their arguments Example #GamerGate Supporter argues for X That's wrong because you're an idiot. Counterpoint Instead of attacking the argument for X, they called the person an idiot ignoring the argument If someone provides a counter-argument and calls you names Their argument may still be valid. Don't use argument from fallacy Fallacy of Origins A conclusion based ontirely on the origin of something rather than its current meaning or context #GamerGate started with hara $ $ ment Therefore #GamerGate is still about harassment Counterpoint The Pink Triangle originated from German labor camps It was used to identify homosexuals The Pink Triangle has been rebranded as a symbol of gay pride by homosexuals You'll often see this fallacy in the form of Even if you change the tag. you're still abusers Appeal to Motive You claim that A is true Because of B, you desire that A should be true Therefore, A is false Example You say that #GamerGate isn't about harassment But y。u only say that as an @xcus@ to harass Counterpoint This is avoiding the need to prove A is false Also known as circumstantial ad hominem It is impossible to prove you don't have a secrel motive -and an individugl making an Appeal to Motive won't be convinced that in @ rGate's context -th. .reoson to hgrass. motivo i easily debunkable. It's the internet. "Hiding behind a hashtag deesn't make sense. People don't need" a hashtag to hide behind.

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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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