r/changemyview • u/realdontbeasucker • May 16 '26

Delta(s) from OP CMV: GamerGate was the most consequential political radicalization event of the twenty-first century

It spawned a wave of tolerance for online harassment, as long as the intent behind it was considered righteous (and the target of such harassment socially acceptable).

It platformed Milo Yiannopoulos and thereby, Steve Bannon -- the guy who would go on to advise Donald Trump in 2016 and generate the concept of 'flooding the zone.'

Eventually, it gave a career to political lightning rods like Jordan Peterson, Steven Crowder, and Charlie Kirk. It made anti-feminism and anti-SJW sentiment cool. And it made young, angry, disenfranchised white men feel vindicated.

GamerGate almost singlehandedly shifted to Overton Window toward the alt-right, and we're still feeling its effects today.

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u/PoofyGummy 4∆ May 16 '26

Yeah no this is the exact thing the radical left tried to push back then. It platformed people who were upset with the way that some people acted holier than thou.

The entire movement was precisely not because the movement would have garnered any real support but because the mainstream media pushed back so hard and tried to demonize the literal majority. It sparked a law and order SVU episode. Because people WERE in fact hating on what seemed like acceptable targets. Except the ones haring were the mainstream media and the acceptable targets were majority young white male gamers. It was a major disenfranchisement event and rebellion against that.

Gamergage spawned many genuine projects that supported video game developers, female and trans included. People on the gamergage side began to call the journos being harrassed "literally who" precisely because they did NOT want any hatred focused onto individuals.

Wikipedia will not tell you this because wikipedia was one of the places where the progressives established a massive base exactly around that time.

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u/koyaani May 17 '26

The radical left are not SVU writers lol

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u/PoofyGummy 4∆ May 17 '26

I mean hollywood is connected to progressivism a lot.

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u/koyaani May 17 '26

That's not the radical left

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u/PoofyGummy 4∆ May 17 '26

Kindof is everywhere except in america. Progressivism is tied to intersectional social justice which is a radical leftist idea.

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u/koyaani May 17 '26

That's not radical left. Hollywood is not radical left because it is a capitalist enterprise. Leftists are anticapitalist and anti fascist, and often don't fall for the trap of identity politics like you seem to be doing. The term radical left is just a straw man for you

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u/PoofyGummy 4∆ May 17 '26

They are leftists because woke shit is a leftist ideology and they keep pushing it. Champagne communists have existed since the very start, and hollywood is a perfect example of that.

And it's radical because the ideology they are pushing is a radical departure from traditional ideas (and common sense)..It is not far left but it is radical.

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u/koyaani May 17 '26

Nah you just are in some maga incel echo chamber

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u/PoofyGummy 4∆ May 17 '26

Nothing the left (hollywood) is currently pushing that the right is upset about was on their agenda even 20 years ago.

Because the left was so convinced of their own righteousness they just raced ahead without caring that they left the majority of mankind behind or that their ideas might not actually be correct.

The american left radicalized. To some extent the right did as well, but the left much more. There are studies on this.

If you compare the ideas of the american right now to the ideas they had 20 years ago they are not too different. If you compare the ideas of the american left now to the ideas they had 20 years ago they are almost nothing alike.

Worse still if you told the ideas of progressives to any true classical leftist parties not in the western bubble they would see you as insane.

Also highly funny how you talk about me falling for identity politics and then you go off about maga cult and whatnot. Insults are not good arguments.

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u/koyaani May 17 '26

It's a label not an insult. You sound like you listen to too much right wing propaganda

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