Yup. Gamergate was the preshow for the alt-right. Milo, Breitbart, etc., all made the transition seamlessly. Nobody involved in gg ever cared about games. They were experimenting & trying out tactics, before they started focusing on the only real game: politics.https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/1080968316540248064 …
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What did the gamer gate/altright fascists discover with their experiments, you might ask? That it was trivially easy on the internet to dupe an army of men into parroting a nonsensical claim, AS LONG AS the claim was directed against someone from a marginalized group.
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In fact, they discovered, you could mobilize the duped army into actual action - harassing people, doxxing them, driving them from their homes - as long as the target was from a marginalized group.
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Replying to @GrimOfGray @sarahmei
It must be easy for her to pretend GamerGate was all white males when she's actively ignoring the voices of marginalized people she claims to protect.
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Ironically, most of the Gamergate supporters that actually went public with their identities were women and minoritiespic.twitter.com/1wE3cWP9gG
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