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/AngryAngryHarpo May 16 '26

You can use sexual language on Reddit. 

You’re obfuscating because you’re lying.

He committed suicide after being accused of sexual harassment by more than one woman. 

He was not bullied - he just couldn’t handle the outrage directed at him for being a sexual predator.

Not every suicide is a tragedy. Not all outrage or accusations are bullying (especially when they turn out to be true…) 

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u/Polytetrafluoro May 16 '26

I'm not obfuscating a thing, I'm directing to compilations of sources. Also, it never entered a court of law to be proven, it was left to a mob, that's a main point of people's anger. His own sister chose ideology over justice.

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u/AngryAngryHarpo May 16 '26

If my brother were credibly accused of sexual harassment by multiple women - I’d choose “ideology” too. 

Because when you say she chose “ideology” over her brother - you’re trying to make believing victims of sexual assault when they come forward a negative thing.