Three days later people are still pretending like women, POC, and queer journalists haven't been receiving intense hate for years.https://twitter.com/remiadetiba/status/882599783843733509 …
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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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