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History PhD student @Princeton. Bylines @Guardian @washmonthly @HistPhil, @dissentmag, @washingtonpost @myhnn. Opinions mine and not those of my employers.

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    1. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      Last thoughts on Gamergate tonight. I used to be hardcore gamer back in the day. I loved the WWII shooters. First got into BF1942...

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    2. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      Then the BF1942 mods, then Red Orchestra. Joined clans and everything. Those were my teenage years.

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    3. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      They were also the years when I had relatively few real-world friends and interacted with a lot of proto-alt-right types on the boards.

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    4. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      I remember that all of my clan mates were fellow white guys. This didn't strike me as odd or even noteworthy at 14.

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    5. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      I remember a lot of talk about race in the abstract, but not as lived experience. (Again, we were all white.)

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    6. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      Most of all, I remember overly-intellectualized misogyny in the way endemic to pissed-off teenage virgins.

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      David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

      I recall using the term incel more than once as a teenager.

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        2. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          Sometimes I'm astonished I didnt go alt-right like some people I knew. WWII imagery+video games+angry male resentment is potent combo.

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        3. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          What saved me? Actually talking to people in the world. Getting involved in college w/ organizing. Building communities in the real world.

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        4. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          It wasn't easy, but it made me realize some hard truths about gender, race, and power that I wasn't getting on the forums.

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        5. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          It's one thing to pontificate online about shit to strangers (I'm doing it now!) Another to actually have to look people in the eye.

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        6. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          All of this is why I'm generally unsympathetic to #Gamergate. I left the scene a few years earlier, but it rang true to me:

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        7. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          The misogyny, the persecution complex, the self-satisfied intellectual musings about free speech online w/o the guts to do so in the world.

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        8. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          It's one of the many reasons I loathe Trump and Trumpism, because I recognize it from my own past.

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        9. David Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 27 Sep 2017

          /end rant.

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