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deoxxys posted...

They've mastered the art of deflection over the years since gamergate.

It's easily applicable to anything now.

"You didn't like the new Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, etc? It's because you're a sexist, I don't care if you have some valid criticisms. You aren't allowed to have those at the same time that someone on the internet is being harassed."

Nevermind that as long as anonymity on the internet exists there will always be some form of harassment. For those who would try to obfuscate my statement, no...this doesn't mean I'm endorsing it, just stating that it's an inevitability.

Scapegoats

This doesn't excuse movements founded for, started by, and sustained through harassment. It's the leftists who care about the so called "valid points" that you hide behind, not gamergaters. In GG spaces untainted by those evil SJWs, y'all spend all your time hating on minorities and women, not about worker's rights, layoffs, microtransactions, or corporate control of media. There's no deflection here, just accurately identifying what the movement and the people behind it were about.

All evidence shows that its actually gamergaters who consciously deflected from their actual purposes of harassment and culture war by using "ethics in videogame journalism" and the few minorities they could scrounge up as shields.

It's pure projection as 98.7% of right wing politics is. UR keeps bringing up the Civil War and Confederacy and it's actually an apt comparison. What some of you guys are trying to do by retroactively sanitizing GG is much like the Southern Lost Cause myth that says the Civil War was about states rights, northern aggression, and protecting the Southern way of life. When people were very open about what it was about at the time and what it was about was trash.