In this thread I want to discuss a common way in which SJW narratives evolve and expand. What happens is that someone will draw a tenuous comparison between an established Bad Thing™ and some new phenomenon , and then imply that they are the same thing, or connected somehow.
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Going back to the entitled gamers narrative, in this weird bait-and-switch the company has become the damsel in distress being oppressed by disgusting penis-havers and their expectations.
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Game journalists are implicitly making the case that gamers should be doormats to companies, to accept them for their inner beauty despite the 3 abortions, 2 children from previous relationships, drug use, stretch-marks and penchant to get railed by Jaykwon on the side.pic.twitter.com/mZe6uJQjac
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The reason feminists are capable of such wild leaps of association is that these established narratives are like mental programs that can easily be hijacked by someone triggering the right flags. Simply slot in a new subject and object into an accepted victim sob-story and prestopic.twitter.com/vWYGyYFQuZ
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The real questions are: 1) To what degree these NPCs are being cynically manipulated as opposed to the instigators being themselves pre-programmed drones? My guess is a bit of a combination of both, but I lean toward the latter.pic.twitter.com/MlkpSCXuWI
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2) Why are game journos shilling for game companies? Again a combination of factors: on the one hand they need access to get content, OTOH they tend to be buddy-buddy with industry insiders far more so than they seem to have a rapport with typical gamers, whom they tend to loathepic.twitter.com/xkssFPPkOT
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