or structures are put in place so that it's socially appropriate for them to just not do anything about it
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major figures like yiannopoulos, medina, sommers, vox day, etc all direct harassment but aren't actually all that legitimate
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they've mostly given up any plausible deniability that they aren't members of a misogynist (and racist/transphobic/etc) hate group
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but their actions are legitimized by the people around them who ignore them + the platforms they use to organize failing to act
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there are a handful of people who were at one point legitimate & are now total cranks who still coast on that legitimacy to harass/threaten
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most of the major figures in gamergate who were like this managed to completely discredit and make fools of themselves
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i'm already getting the beginning trickle of abuse from the base-level angry mobs for talking about this
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these are the ones who search for terms like "gamergate" or "atheism" and yell at people who disagree with them
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usually they'll quote tweet in an attempt to sic their followers
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