How imageboard culture shaped Gamergate

Most of us are familiar with what gamergate is about; we’ve seen people discuss the issue, we’ve seen some beautiful statistical analysis of the tweets, and we’ve seen obstinate one-off accounts pop in periodically to defend it. It’s been overwhelming about people like Sarkeesian and Wu, threatening them and trying to make them be silent.

A while ago we had some one-off cheering that Samantha Allen no longer felt safe in speaking, and from the looks of it the bulk of gamergate is for that outcome. Are you? If your position is genuinely that allowing all criticism is the way to have worthwhile opinions stand, you’d be against a movement trying to silence critics, right?

Have you put even that much thought into your own beliefs?

No, I guess not, if this is what you think argument based on reason looks like. I suppose you can make citations about how women were forced into the workplace by anything other than bad economies, and how that’s in any way connected to birthrates or the obviously-lack-of-regulation-caused slump in the economy?

Or are you just planning to insult leftists and use slurs like “it’s gay” until everyone else leaves, or in the case of this board until you get banned for being a jackass, and think that somehow counts as the proof you were right all along?

Edits for language.

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