Jeremy Stangroom

@PhilosophyExp No - agreed. But isn't something a genetic fallacy if it fails to do that extra work but is offered claiming that it does?

@SIN_Notung worrying about origins, just because it's a genetic fallacy to think that origins are exhaustive, etc.

@PhilosophyExp Oh, yes I agree with you then. It's like with God - it's not enough to say "religion started for emotional reasons, ...

@PhilosophyExp ... therefore it's false and God doesn't exist". But origins might have some significance - requiring supplementary arguments

@SIN_Notung @PhilosophyExp 4chan also did and does a couple of good things, see various AnonOps

@PhilosophyExp @SIN_Notung similarly you could say "gamergate" was started by a right winger so it is a right wing tag. It isnt

@JakCharlton @SIN_Notung I know virtually nothing about any of the arguments surrounding gaming. :)

@PhilosophyExp @SIN_Notung I'm only addressing the fallacy part :) it was started by a prominent right winger, doesn't make it "anti women"

@JakCharlton @SIN_Notung right-winger (assuming that's a bad thing, of course).

@PhilosophyExp @SIN_Notung yes it did, it also united thousands of gamers. Does the first in any way invalidate the second?

@JakCharlton @SIN_Notung Basically, you have to worry about with whom you're getting into bed. it's politically and morally relevant.

@PhilosophyExp @JakCharlton Granted there, but I'm less convinced with hashtags: Harder to trace origins, less affiliative, and open to all.

@SIN_Notung @JakCharlton Hmmm. Can't say I've been too keen on the way Suey Park has had her profile raised.