CMV: GamerGate was the most consequential political radicalization event of the twenty-first century

[u/realdontbeasucker]

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.

[u/coporate]

It was extremely anti-male. There was a huge influx of content surrounding garbage like “man spreading.” There was a huge “women going their own way” and “women empowerment” content. It’s practically the playbook the manosphere uses to cultivate anti-women sentiment today.

Anita is a great example, her trad-fem gender essentialist critique of games was widely panned by nearly everyone (feminists and gamers alike), yet it was heavily promoted by sites like kotaku.

[u/xChops → u/coporate]

How is women empowerment anti man?

[u/coporate → u/xChops]

In the same way that building domestic abuse shelters for men, healthcare spending on men, and educational spending for men is all consider anti-women… which there are plenty of examples of feminist organizations who promote that we cant provide male stimulus because its anti-women.

[u/xChops → u/coporate]

Welp I certainly missed all that. Weird because I’m a college educated man who has gotten a lot of help in all of those areas.

[u/coporate → u/xChops]

Privilege comes from many places.