lexyeevee:

“we just wanted to stem the corruption in gaming journalism” — people who will gleefully spam unrelated hashtags, weave vast conspiracy theories, ally with whoever is politically convenient no matter how reprehensible, and spread lies that they never bother to retract

“we are NOT YOUR SHIELD” — people who literally claim they cannot be racist or sexist because some black people and women agree with them

“why are people against us? i don’t understand”

lmao

the best part of this is that it cuts off exactly where i would want to stop reading

edit: no there are so many good parts i have to deconstruct this

  1. this was the opener. i briefly clicked through and there were screenfuls of text; this is the hook, the best they had to offer.

  2. their immediate response to my mention of spam, a thing that gamergate is actually doing right now (they are attempting to monopolize GDC-related hashtags on twitter with image macros about kotaku), is a completely ludicrous strawman of feminism (which i didn’t even mention) that is not actually spammed ever and also a thing that has probably never happened at all

i’m dying to understand this mindset but i don’t really want to get sucked in

just, you know, how does that seem anything like a counterargument? from someone named “fear my logic” no less

is this how gamergate deals with their rot? by pretending that any mention of it is extreme hyperbole? I DONT GET IT

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  3. randomdaisy said: *vast numbers of people adopting the movement harass and threaten several female devs to the point they have to leave their homes for their safety* “but that’s not what GamerGate REALLY stands for!!!”