For a good 5 seconds, I honestly thought was watching a first-person shooter game. The shooter used his GoPro to film the video so that you're looking down the barrel of his assault rifle at the people he's killing. It's just frighteningly video game-like.
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When white supremacists plan mass murder online, they call innocents "NPCs"-- non-player characters, like the boilerplate enemies you shoot in a zombie game. The Christchurch video camera angle makes you identify with the shooter, and depersonalize the victims.
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Video games don't turn people into shooters, but Gamergate fed heavily into the rise of the alt-right, and the language and visual culture of would-be mass shooters and their cheerleaders reflects that influence strongly.
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I often see white supremacists in the channels I watch laughing about Jews not being "real people," and the similarities between that depersonification and the NPC designation of shooting victims are intentional.
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Nazis use video game language to make their beliefs sound familiar to young recruits. Until antifascists deplatformed them, they recruited and organized using the voice/text chat platform Discord, an app developed for multi-person game players to communicate with each other.
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If you've got kids who game, especially teenage boys, talk to them about white supremacy culture and symbolism. Otherwise, there's a good chance the gaming community will do it instead-- in the worst possible way. (/thread)
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As a gamer who as a teen thought gamer gate would just fade away: I’m sorry for my friends and I who have been so slow to listen to the warnings, and thank you for saying this.
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@gwensnyderPHL: "(thread) Despite the spaces I monitor, I've managed to avoid watching any footage of the Christchurch massacre. Managed […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1163583519920050176.html … Talk to you soon.
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