And yes, I am furious about Anita's cancelled talk, about the spectre of Marc Lepine being raised over a lecture on *video games*
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The fact that such basic issues of access remain such fraught battlegrounds is absolutely frightening. It terrorises *all of us.*
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Consider the fact that GG has a list of "LWs" now. Zoe Quinn was the first, Anita the second... and the rest are *all* women.
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The perverse damnatio memoriae of the women they despise for speaking their minds is a chilling sociological artifact of this mess.
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So many around me are literally sick of this. Physically ill, from anxiety and fear. Myself included. I'm beyond tired of being scared.
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Whatever the intentions (or identities) of some in GG, the *impact* of this movement is what it is. The terror it created is real.
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The terror is not the result of propaganda or misunderstanding or obtuseness, but the real impact on all of our lives.
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That even a "moderate" would be so callous as to say that speaks volumes about a severe failure of empathy endemic to the movement.
Everything happening now is a terrifying elaboration of my argument against "ends justify the means" thinking in leaderless movements.
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So much is made by them of the fact that Brianna Wu's threats or Anita's didn't come directly from GG. But it doesn't matter. Why?
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@Quinnae_Moon As usual, putting everything very well here. -
@Quinnae_Moon Only for plausibly denying it was them. GG creates the atmosphere that encourages and fosters people to make threats -
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@Quinnae_Moon@silentkpants Right, right. There's a big difference between "That's awful, nobody should do that" and "We didn't do that."
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