like, isn't that barrage the exact thing that made so many go from focusing on video games exclusively to despising the media in general??
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because (being an anti at the time, no less!) I distinctly remember game sites remaining silent and mainstream outfits ignorant, a wave of..
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..."silence is complicity rah rah" for a month or two followed by kotaku/polygon posting screed after screed, sarkeesian on nyt front page..
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...and opeds on most mainstream sites breathlessly raving about The New Bad Thing We Must Hate
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a better take would be no one listened to those who warned that the media's lockstep effort to shame gamergate to death was a foolish...
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... endeavor that spread irrational terror on the shaming side and bred resentment and reentrenchment on the shamed side before they...
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...went and deployed it at scale against trump
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online tech-focused outlets did - but they're not the world. wider press largely ignored, or went for false-equivalence
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I mean cnn/wapo/nyt/guardian etc not just slate/vice/vox etc. certainly was more a curiosity than breaking news but
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I think "we knew about this but did not expect it to apply outside of games" would be more honest than "we all ignored this"
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