those people enable the explicitly misogynist/racist/transphobic/etc people by refusing to properly censure them
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but the explicit ones reinforce the implicit ones by creating a "those gamergate guys are the REAL sexists" narrative
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and so they're allowed to continue with their plausibly deniable sexual harassment and assault/bad code of conduct ideas/etc
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something like this comes out every few years in basically every nerd community i'm even remotely connected to
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they really put down roots in games, with the particularly toxic gamers joining forces with a bunch of non-gamers to create gamergate
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so you have a bunch of gamers who are ostensibly mad about less tiddies/translators doing their jobs/etc
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who really are just resisting a more diverse community + doing that thing old people do where they think the past is better
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where it is really a combination of them getting away with bigotry more in the past + memory being hazy bc they were literal children
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and that's combined with a lot of hangers-on non-gamers like yiannopoulos, sommers, vox day, etc
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so gaming ends up generally being worse because it's the community they decided to build Asshole Central in
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@NoraReed i'm sure it'll start boosting the local economy any day now though0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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