The way I’ve put it elsewhere is that it doesn’t take much digging to find that #Gamergate is driven by reactionaries, and that they try to mask how extreme they are, to draw in lazy misogynists. Lazy people are the least likely to do that digging, however. (I have in mind an analogy with skinhead punks in the UK in the 1970s.) I think it’s worth distinguishing between a core of hardened reactionaries, and a larger number of garden variety misogynists. With the latter, I think it’s in order to yell at them to wake the hell up, because at least some of them may wake the hell up.
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