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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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
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??
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
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