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"DIGEST FEATURES REVIEWS FLMMAKING FRENZY THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: Devin has opinions. See More... Published October 15, 2014 by Devin Farad Why GamerGate Already Lost Misogynist gamers sent terror threats to Anita Sarkeesian, but their own actions prove their undoing SUFFRAGISTON THE WAR PATH JUMP ONHIM HE IS ONLY A MERE MAN Last night Anita Sarkeesian, host of the teminist video game critique series Tropes vs Women, was forced to cancel an appearance at Utah State University after the school recelved a threat saying there would be a massacre if she spoke. This wasn't the first time Sarkeesian receved a direct, specific threat before a speaking engagement recently on Twiter she said she had gone on stage at least three bmes after receiving specific death threats but she canceled because the Utah polce couldnt provide the secunity she requested (due to the state's concealed carry law, which is a whole other cuitural dlusterfuck). Anita is willing to be a target, but she didn't want the audience to be targets as well When this news broke something happened everyone on Twitter blamed GamerGate the harassment campaign organized under a hashmag and run ofT the kiddie-pom disseminating website 4chan for being too extreme. While the threatening letter never mentioned GamerGate It was pretty clear that this lunatic was on their wavelength Despite protestations that GamerGate is about ethics in journalism (we'll get to why thats hardcore bulshit irs been mosty a force for hounding women, especialy Sarkeesian and indie developer Zoe Quinn, with developer Brianna Wu becoming the latest women run out of her home by specific violent threats from GamerGaters The Sarkeesian threat name-dropped Marc Lépine, who was the Elott Rodger of Montreal, murdering 14 women in a seltl-described battle aganst feminism-the same enemy that GamerGate says it fights. This is the world of GamerGate, sick, pathetic men who are so threatened by women that they must etner murder them or terrorize them into silence It's important, before we get to how GamerGate has already lost, to explain how GamerGate has already proven itself a fraud As it mobilizes seething, 24-hour hate mob against women who are not journalists in the name of jourmalistic ethics it has unerty ignored a truly disturbing breach of journalistic ethics. It became known that the publisher of Middle-Earth: Shadows Of Mordor offered pre-release review copies to YouTube game reviewers only if they would agree to say positive things about it Oh, and the You Tubers would get paid for it as well. This isn't new It's been happening for years. Check out this deal for coverage of Battiefield 4, and the things you are not allowed to discuss, like gitches. This goes for the Shadows of Mordor deal as well -you can't talk about bugs in your review of the product Assignment: BF4 Launch Assignment Details mage via lazygamer What you're looking at is the absolule kind of unethical dealing which GamerGate is railing against.. .and yet they havent mobilized against it Zoe Quinn's personal information is being posted on 8chan.co, the scumbag message board for people who think slimepit 4chan isn't lenient enough, every day Quinn isnt a journalst Quinn didnt engage in payola. Real payola has happened, is happening and GamerGate is silent on it. Why arent these YouTubers getting doxxed? Because GamerGate isn't about ethics. it's about stopping women from having voices, It's about keeping progressive Ideas out of games and it's about attacking any kind of game that doesnt fit the mainstream, shoot-em-up vision of video games these deeply emotionally stunted people have Theyve already lost their own battle as they roil over on true ethical lapses But more than that, they've lost the PR war. The second everyone assumed the Utah threat came from a Gamergater they lost. Their entire campaign has been defined to mean one thing and one thing only - harassment of women. The more they claim otherwise the more bizarre they come across, like when you hear Klansmen say they don't hate black people they're just proud of being white. You wonder who they think they're fooling. When the news broke about Sarkeesian Joss Whedon tweeted this TERRORISM ISN'T BLOWING THINGS UP IT'S USING THE FEAR OF VOLENCE TO COW US AND CONTROL OUR ACTIONS htpot.co pik9w1oqNC Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) October 15, 2014 Weeks ago I took a lot of heat for jokingly comparing GamerGate to iSIS, but it's not a joke anymore. Days after Malala Yousefzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to the misogynist Taiban terrorists, misogynist GamerGate terrorists tried to sience Anita Sarkeesian. As Whedon says terrorism isn' about doing violence, it's about using the spectre of violence to get your way. The threats against Sarkeesian were terroristic in nature, and the GamerGaters who have fostered a campaign of hate towards her and other prominent women in the gaming community are as guilty as the diseased hands that typed the threat Many an the sidelines are baffled that GamerGaters don t just abandon the hashtag and start fresh, even the imbeciles who believe this is about journalistic ethics must understand that any movement beginning from the Flive Guys Burgers and Fries anti-Quinn sentiment (the Frve Guys thing is a reference to claims that Quinn cheated on her boytriend with five ather people, a vie slander) is growing on poisoned ground. But the reality is that they're not ashamed of their toxic origins. They own it. They are toxic people, and Im glad they're sticking with GamerGate. It lets us know exactly who to gnore, who isn't worth our time Today if you call someone a Nazi you don't mean they're Ineraly a member of the National Sociaist Party I wonder how long until it becomes commonplace to tel a friend who says something misogynistic, "You're such a GamerGater There's one last reason wihy GamerGate has already lost its campaign against women: the more noise they make, the more terror threats they send to Sarkeesian, the more they publish the home phone numbers of Zoe Quinn's family, the more they drive women like Brianna Wu out their homes, the more people who were neutral suddenly realize we need feminism. The more they rant and rave against women, the more they inch towards real world violence, the more people wake up and see that there's stil a lot of work to do when It comes to equality and that our society is sill hlled with unspoken misogynisic assumptions and practices. Every nasty tweet a GamerGater sends to a woman convinces one more person to speak up in defense of women. Their ugly hate is recruiting people for the good guys every single day. About the Author: A ten year veteran of writing for the web, Devin has buit a reputation as a loud, uncompromising and honest voice sometimes to the chagrin of his readers, but usualy to their delight

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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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Ok so what's this butt nugget of a author is saying

>Says Utah threat must relate to GamerGate because of "same wavelength." Basically, a huge assumption

>The usual GG is misogyny and hate movement shtick

> Brings up the Zoe case and calls it fake.

> Calls GG movement bullshit because apparently youtubers, who are given money for talking about a game, such as BF4, with the condition of "not mentioning glitches" is a valid argument to clearly say that GG must be a fraud and bunch of "hardcore bullshit" even though youtubers aren't professional journalists and don't need to uphold any ethics and they make it obvious that they are being paid, but hey it must be a great argument to say GG is a bunch of bullshit right.

Now here comes the highlight:

>Brings up his ISIS comment, first says it was a joke, but now he says it's no longer a joke, which means he REALLY means it this time. He confirms that now he believes GG is comparable to ISIS because GG "silences" women and uses "fear".

So as usual, this gets the seal of approval:

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>Mentions the Shadow of Mordor
>GamerGate did nothing
You done fucked up, TotalBiscuit blew the whistle on that. As a vehement supporter of GamerGate, he counts as on our side.

Congratulations, you have failed at researching whatsoever.

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