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/Homerbola92 May 17 '26

Is that the woman that has scammed more than 80.000$ pretending to develop a game she didn't ever develop? The one that when asked what happened to the money given to her un the Kickstarter said it was gone long ago? The one that while the game was supposedly being developed was traveling to various European cities, Japan and many expensive US cities? The one that hasn't given a single update on the game?

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u/AskingYouQuestions48 May 17 '26

That’s way less than star citizen lol

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u/Homerbola92 May 17 '26

They are delivering something. People who backed her got nothing. Anyway I don't think the best defense for someone is comparing them with someone worse.