weird attempt at revising the past so as to appear vatic. didn't most major outlets trash gamergate for weeks? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump …pic.twitter.com/BgVclQL8mM
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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..
..."silence is complicity rah rah" for a month or two followed by kotaku/polygon posting screed after screed, sarkeesian on nyt front page..
...and opeds on most mainstream sites breathlessly raving about The New Bad Thing We Must Hate
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...
... endeavor that spread irrational terror on the shaming side and bred resentment and reentrenchment on the shamed side before they...
...went and deployed it at scale against trump
I was on sjw team at the time 
Yes and yes.
Lees et al. operate on an "if you don't hate my enemy as much as I do you're on their side" mindset, so to him anything short of
@alicemazzy
every game site on the planet jointly calling for #Gamergate sympathizers to be summarily hanged probably seems like complicity.
@alicemazzy
.@alicemazzy shit, the dishonest media response was a scandal itself and created it problems with self fulfilling prophecies
.@alicemazzy journalists wanted a gender war narrative so bad and then gender warriors on both sides came after that to fuck it all up
there wasn't as much hostility before then, but the narrative really hurt things indefinitely and created it's problem
Exacerbated when GG tried to get the ethics side of things on to CNN ireport but kept getting deleted, & they interviewed Wu
don't care what side you took during, just wanted to say, personally, that's when I decided most of the media was utter shit
because all I wanted was the ethical concerns brought to light/ addressed but instead got someone acting in bad faith on live TV
Someone I'd seen trying to bait people in to getting pissed with her, going on an International news station, playing the victim
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