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I always side stepped the whole gamergate thing while it was at it's height. Something always stank about that affair.
I would say gamergate wasn't the first battle, but more like a "Southern Strategy" of gaming. Previously, gaming culture was the target of conservatives. I remember Jack Thompson.
As gaming went "mainstream" and gamers aged into the voting range and boomers became less and less swing voters, conservatives started using the same tactics to draw in gamers as neo-nazis used to draw in the punk scene.
Gamergate and 2016 US Politics go hand-in-hand, as Steve Bannon was an orchestrater of the former as a trial run for the latter.
I'd say I can't believe everything is shit because of porn-addicted white people on the internet, but historically speaking that's been the motivation behind almost every fascist movement.
true
and you lost me. I'm assuming you live in "the west" where white people are the majority. Once you start looking at other areas of the world, you'll see the same methods being used by none-white fascist(or pseudo fascists) upstarts. Also, pretty sure sexual repression has a stronger link to violent politics. Chaste societies are easier to get to go to war. Why do you think "purity" is so valued in abrahamic religions and why the Nazis burned the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
Haha; You're right that my post, on its own, is indeed American-centric. I'll consider that, thank you!
Violent Politics are a tool of Fascists, I feel that doesn't need elaboration; I'm more exasperated that it keeps working throughout history, even as we have the entire world in our pocket.
It's also the tool of progress. American 60's Era Civil rights Movement wasn't cause solely by the speeches of MLK, but the real threat that the protests would turn into large scale violence and the government deciding that it would be cheaper to give more equal rights to Black People. A fact that gets whitewashed by the school system.