Threats against journalists weren't invented with Trump. Flat out. Not even by a long shot.https://twitter.com/remiadetiba/status/882600252657762306 …
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Ignoring what happened during McCarthyism and Watergate and all sorts of other shit in our nation's past... fucking Gamergate. Jesus.
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Pretending like Trump invented massive online targeted harassment against journalists is to ignore one of the biggest recent meta-stories.
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Journalists spent YEARS under targeted harassment for GG. The catchphrase was literally "it's about ethics in gaming journalism."
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The argument being made here is, "Oh, they didn't get harassed for doing journalism, they got harassed for doing journalism defending women"
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So... journalism then. Using that logic you can easily escape any accusations.
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"Oh, he didn't get harassed for doing journalism, it was because he did journalism about Trump. Journalism is safe." This is dangerous.
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Along various axes, people are willing to believe that Trump invented many of the problems we're facing. He didn't. He's a product of them.
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We need to not be naive about them because they don't go away when Trump eventually does. Losing Trump doesn't fix them.
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Yes, I'm a POC.
I'm saying women/minorities got hate *as* women/minorities. The press at large wasn't The Enemy until now -
Were you asleep for Gamergate, or....?
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Gamergate was about WOMEN. Unless you actually believe it was "about ethics in gaming journalism..."
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Of course it was. But what was that catchphrase used as? It was a call to harassment. And lots of male journos caught shit.
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It was literally a call to harass journalists for being on the wrong side, i.e. the side defending women.
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And yet you don't see the exact point I'm making. Literally tweeted essentially this exact point just before you sent this.
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"getting harassed for doing journalism about GG" is literally the same as "getting harassed for doing journalism"
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Using your logic, I can *easily* say, "Oh, he didn't get harassed for doing journalism. He got harassed for doing journalism about Trump."
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