GamerGate drama in /r/pcgaming

hat's because it began as an hate campaign against a woman.

Spouting revisionist history that pretends to know the specific beliefs of thousands of individual people is the exact kind of bullshit I am talking about.

As someone who took part in GG very early on, you are simply stereotyping a massive swathe of people. You are no better than your standard bigoted racist. Yes, there were people that jumped on the bandwagon just to hate on Zoe Quin just because she is a women. I have no doubt about that, especially with places like 4chan's /b/ and /pol/ being popular GG hubs at the start.

But PLENTY of people actually gave a shit about the ethical issues, and plenty of those people are still around today, be they active participants of GG or people who swore off the tag ages ago due to it's decline. But telling these people that they didn't exist just because you are on a crusade to demonize an entire group of people based off of incredibly generalized and inaccurate stereotypes is pathetic.

All I see here is you acting exactly like many racist and generally bigoted assholes do. You want to make yourself feel superior to others, so you stereotype massive swathes of people and then try your damnedest to demonize every single one of them. You strip them of any perceived humanity or individuality, and you try to claim they are all mindless demons who all believe the same straw man beliefs that you spend so much time building up and attacking.

When you act like this, you are just as bad as the people on KiA who mindlessly ramble on about how evil those SJW's are and how some magical SRS cabal is taking over the internet. When you act like this, you are just as bad as the mindless trump supporters who drone on about how all muslims are evil, how they are all barbaric rapists, and how they are going to kill our "proud white race".

Every group has it's negatives, but dehumanizing the whole off of those negatives is the actions of a child, not an adult. And it's about time for you to grow the fuck up.

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