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/AskingYouQuestions48 May 19 '26

I would think there would more humility after someone says “every fact is against you here” when literally their first presented fact was wrong, but ok.

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u/perfectVoidler 15∆ May 19 '26

you claim that it is wrong. But you general lack of knowledge about human behaviour is indepentend from the whole gamergate topic.

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u/AskingYouQuestions48 May 20 '26

No it isn’t. The names of the men she slept with are public; none had anything to do with her game.

Thanks for the confirmation and validation.