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GamerGate - I guess we shouldn't just stop at stereotyping Muslims as the scum of the earth, let's do it with gamers too!

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#Gamergate is really about terrorism: Why Bill Maher should be vilifying the gaming community, too It's time for us to face up to our persistent double standard on what constitutes a terrorist act BRANKO MARCETIC f Share 43 TOPICS: GAMERGATE, TERRORISM, ANITA SARKEESIAN, BILL MAHER, EDITOR'S PICKS. MEDIA NEWS Credit: MmeEmil via iStock) There are many reasons to stand appalled at the headlines that have recently rocked the video game world, which has seen feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian cancel a speaking event at a Utah university due to a threat made on her life. From the exposure of a long-festering misogynistic undercurrent in gamer culture to further proof (if any was needed) of the way online anonymity tends to divorce people from any semblance of basic decency, the issues revealed by this and other recent video game controversies have been ugly, to say the least. Less discussed, though just as interesting, is what this incident tells us about the meanng of terrorism" in the post-9/11 world, and the hierarchy of violence that Western society has created in the wake of those attacks.

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Kirb Blanco

Kirb Blanco

Oct 23, 2014 at 11:14PM EDT

Oh, shut up.

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General Confusion

General Confusion

Oct 24, 2014 at 12:51AM EDT

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