[RANT ALERT RANT ALERT]
[BUT I WANT TO SUM UP MY IDEAS ON #GAMERGATE AS A WHOLE]
Can i be honest? I've been involved in this on twitter for a while, and what I have witnessed is an extreme openness to all kinds of people. I really wonder 'how can this be seen as the most vile misogynistic racist homophobic group in history?'.
I've seen straights, gays, trans, men, women, asians, blacks and whites. I've had short talks with people with autism (of which I happen to have a mild variant myself as well),anxiety and depression.
What could be seen as the evil thing by SJW is that in fact, everyone is treated equally. How could this be seen as bad? Well, not the fact there is no actual discrimination, but that there is no special treatment. PoC in #gamergate don't demand all
whites to hate themselves and their pasts. Minorities don't get special treatment. Men aren't told to stop having different opinions about anything. Men aren't told they are to blame for every suffering any woman has. White cis men are not told they need to keep their stinking face shut, are not allowed to talk and should either constantly throw mea culpas or just off themselves for simplicity. (Because 'every dead white cis men makes the world better right?)
In #gamergate, we are in the first place humans. Humans with a different melanin level or different chromosomes. But we are humans first and foremost, so we treat everyone in it as humans. Everything else is secondary.
And yes, many in #gamergate stand against where it has just been taken to f-ing far.
When people start claiming they are not to be seen as human but lion and that this is 100% normal, that if you feel like you have a different heritage than you have, you suddenly do. When people behave like 19th century prudes who crack down at exposed belly button (or "navel") and act like this promotes sexual harassment.
When rich privileged kids start acting like they are the most oppressed person ever and that any white male, even one who grew up in poverty, is super privileged compared to her, that does annoy and piss of a decent amount of people in #gamergate.
When the hobby in which many have found their only home is declared dead and if you dare deny that you are a racist misogynistic abuse rape-approving MONSTER. Yeah that pisses people off.
The fact they thought they could get away with that shows how journos had become drunken with power and developed a superiority complex. They believed if they declared them dead, gamers would be intimidated and scutter back to their caves crying in fear of the almighty journos.
"Gamers don't have to be your audience,
we are the only part of your audience you should care about" When because you think games shouldn't have their content removed because one or two people might dislike it and journalists should disclose their relationships, you get named a rape approver, future terrorist, future abuser, #gamergate will stand against that.
Gamers have been demonized for ages. In the past we were seen as hippie leftists when far right tried to get us shut down. These same leftist hippies are now named ultra right wing conservative MRAs because we defend against the assault from the far left.
I read a tweet recently I truly love and I will use in real life as well: "Ideologies are like the pH scale, got to far on either side and it's pure poison."
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Oh and when people say we only hate on women who do stuff, you are intentionally and actively ignoring how much we stand against bullshit spread by men. We do not dislike people like Anita and Wu because of their gender, we dislike them because of their bullshit.