BREAKING: Comey "FBI is investigating links between the Trump campaign

[Beet]

SJW are a huge problem for the left, and have been for years.

The SJW initiated the event that gave the AltRight its first mainstream momentum, the #GamerGate hastag in September 2014. #GamerGate did to games journalism what Trump did to Nate Silver and Vox two years later. It was the microcosm. People who hadn't been relevant in decades, like Christina Hoff Sommers, suddenly came out of the woodwork and became bigger than ever. The entire thing was initiated by an ill-fated SJW pushback against harassment directed at games developer Zoe Quinn. They got 10 games-related publications to publish articles against trolls in the games community all at once, and this ignited suspicions. Before this, the games media had apparently spent years injecting identity politics into games reviews, to the point where every video game was being reviewed for political correctness. They even alienated a metric ton of people who should have been on their side to begin with. When I was growing up, games were totally apolitical, and there was nothing wrong with that. The SJW intent is to help women and minorities, but they go about it the completely wrong way. They end up generating a huge amount of heat for very little positive action.

Anyway, the whole shebang was basically a trial run for 2016.

[Beet]

SJW are a huge problem for the left, and have been for years.

The SJW initiated the event that gave the AltRight its first mainstream momentum, the #GamerGate hastag in September 2014. #GamerGate did to games journalism what Trump did to Nate Silver and Vox two years later. It was the microcosm. People who hadn't been relevant in decades, like Christina Hoff Sommers, suddenly came out of the woodwork and became bigger than ever. The entire thing was initiated by an ill-fated SJW pushback against harassment directed at games developer Zoe Quinn. They got 10 games-related publications to publish articles against trolls in the games community all at once, and this ignited suspicions. Before this, the games media had apparently spent years injecting identity politics into games reviews, to the point where every video game was being reviewed for political correctness. They even alienated a metric ton of people who should have been on their side to begin with. When I was growing up, games were totally apolitical, and there was nothing wrong with that. The SJW intent is to help women and minorities, but they go about it the completely wrong way. They end up generating a huge amount of heat for very little positive action.

Anyway, the whole shebang was basically a trial run for 2016.

Of course Beet, that's the problem. Brilliant analysis

Have to hand it to him, really wants to push this both sides narrative.

Plot twist: Bronz is just Beet sh*tposting.

Bumping because I got a ton of sh--t for this post (none of it substantive, o/c, just mindless name-calling and dismissal), but since then it's become mainstream, accepted, the, role, of, gamergate.

[Beet]

I mean, anyone who would take the "I'm going to doxx this bitch by posting her address online so someone can go rape her!" side was already in the Trump camp anyway. Maybe #GamerGate got some Deplorables interested in actually voting, but surely it couldn't have made the necessary hundreds of thousands of votes of difference?

It changed the culture of the Internet. Or drastically accelerated a change that was already creeping. The best argument against its importance is that the change was inevitable anyway.