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@kitredgrave @rw The gamergate tag might have turned to trash but I met my now-wife through it so it wasn't all terrible.
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@kitredgrave @rw I ended up somewheres in the middle really. At the start I thought it was a bunch of bullshit because Zoe Quinn was basically not noteworthy or notable and the larger issues of corruption have been around for a long time and aren't specific to the gaming media (the US election was a good example of how shit the media in general is IMO), but then I …
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@rw @kitredgrave The issue of media corruption is an important topic but GamerGate never really was about that, in retrospect. It was "us versus them", and I abhor that brand of tribalism.
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@rw @kitredgrave If we can't recognize individual bad actors have individual responsibility for their actions then you just turn it into a game whereby you have publications or websites or "labels" that take the fall for the actions of the bad actors. As much as I rail on mastodon as a whole based on my experiences with many people from it, for example, here I am ta…
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@rw @kitredgrave Wow that was a long ramble, I guess I have Opinions on this topic >.>;
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@kitredgrave @rw Exactly! The cronies as you put it really are the ones that should be the target if you ask me. But GG wasn't really about that for very long if it was at all, it was mostly about going after the social group they perceived as "attacking" them over the "Quinnspiracy" stuff and while the way that they treated people was reprehensible (on both side…
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@kitredgrave @rw Its the whole tribalism thing. As long as people treat it as US versus THEM and one bad person in a social group means they're all TERRIBLE [shitlords/gamers/nazis/SJWs/etc] you're not going to break the cycle. There's a very authoritarian bent to the over-arching culture wars. "You must associate with who I say you should, or else."
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