One other point on 8Chan. It spun out of 4Chan after the Gamergate attacks on women video game writers like @BriannaWu and Zoe Quinn became too violent and vicious even for the cess pit of 4Chan.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage …
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@UnburntWitch said in (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in the Age of Trump, “The whole message of Gamergate was, ‘Fuck these SJWs trying to tell us what to do.’ That jumped to Storm Front, where they were saying, ‘hey, we should talk to these people, they believe what we do.’”Show this thread -
“Because it was so big and visible, it was like a signal flare to a lot of different hate groups,” she said of Gamergate. Within “three weeks tops,” the nerds and gamers had been joined by the proto-storm troopers of the Alt Right in a bond that has never been broken.
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