Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate
Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate
The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
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What the fuck does videogame journalist corruption have to do with Nancy fucking Polosi?
Try reading the article.
And that’s not what gamergate was about, no matter what you tell yourself. It was a misogynistic hate campaign.
No it wasn’t. At all. Like Occupy Wallstreet, it was co-opted by people that had no interest in reality.
I was there at the beginning when kotakuinaction sprung up, when the accusations of pay for reviews was levied, and then consequently when the right wing found it and co-opted it.
You can try to revise history all you’d like, but that’s not what happened. It did not start as a hate campaign just as OWS did not start as a bunch of hippies and drug users asking for free money.
I was there at the beginning when kotakuinaction sprung up, when the accusations of pay for reviews was levied, and then consequently when the right wing found it and co-opted it.
If GG was devoid of misogyny, devoid of hate, and based entirely in fact and reality, then the right wing wouldn't have bothered with the effort necessary to co-opt it. Those ingredients weren't added to an otherwise unblemished movement, they were prerequisites for the Alt Right to coalesce around it. I was also in /r/kotakuinaction and /v/ in 2014, it wasn't "found" by right wingers, it was founded by right wingers, or at the very least they were the earliest possible arrivals and immediately began moving in furniture.
You don't have to take my word for it: this post was made within a month of KIA's founding. All the "it's about games journalism" talk was a smokescreen to lure people in. You and I may have bounced off, but that's just part of the natural self-selection process, i.e. Nigerian Prince scammers deliberately make typos in their emails to filter out the people who don't make easy Marks.
Conservatives are masters of manipulating "righteous" indignation, and KIA was the definition of a Target-Rich Environment. One they basically created.
It's what the vast majority of those who followed it cared about. And it's about a decade late to have anything to do with this dude.