With apologies to Voltaire: If SJW did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them.
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This is something of a tangent, but Iâm wondering if thereâs a layer of them that genuinely rejects sexual intimacy with other human beings. Iâve seen a few people claim as much, that they prefer solitary sexual fantasy and masturbation to actual relationships, but I have no idea how serious that may be or how common.
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And, Inside Higher Ed has discovered The Tag That Shall Not Be Named:
Because the 'gaters have gone after a research association. (AND OMG donât read the comments; I thought IHE would be safe, but NO.)
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Firstly, I didnât defend it, I said it doesnât constitute a threat. I never said, âWell, KingOfPol had it coming. Heâs a holocaust denier.â That would be a defense. I was arguing over classification. Pedantry may be annoying to some by I prefer it to the widespread trend of people conveniently redefining words such as terrorism, racism⌠or gamer to fit their ideology.
Secondly, according to the American Heritage dictionary a threat is âAn expression of an intention to inflict pain, harm, or punishment.â Websterâs New World dictionary defines it as âan expression of intention to hurt, destroy, punish, etc., as in retaliation or intimidation.â Semantically, itâs clear that the perpetratorâs intent is determinative and not the victimâs emotional reaction. If the semantic and the legal differ, thatâs unfortunate.
Thirdly, anti-gamergate is not my team, nor is political correctness my team, nor identity politics. Anti-gamergateâs not much more rational than gamergate itself, I see that everytime I visit GamerGhazi. I also dislike political correctness, have problems with identity politics, wish games journalism was better, and think Anita Sarkeesian is guilty of âcherry-picking.â
My problems with gamergate are as follows: the conspiretarded claims of âfalse flagâ operations, its habit of lying to itself and/or others about what itâs main focus is (hint: it ainât journalistic ethics), its habit of disproportionately criticizing women while claiming SJWs are mostly white male hipsters, its habit of claiming criticism from SJWs is a form of soft censorship while engaging in the significantly less-soft censorship of advertiser boycotts, its habit of creating blacklists while criticizing anti-gg blacklists⌠So mostly conspiretardation, dishonesty, and hypocrisy.
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and I said youâre wrong because it does constitute a threat.
I am also a definition pedant and I have explained to you that because it was send to their home address, itâs hard to argue that itâs not a threat. You can try, but youâll have to be more specific than just telling us itâs not a threat.
Your definitions differ from these ones, both of which would be applicable here:
Protip: statements do not have to be spoken. The second definition listed under [law] looks as if it was purpose-written for proving my argument.
Also, to be clear, I also think Sarkeesianâs video are trolly and dishonest. I just donât care about any of this garbage. I donât read games journalism, i just play games. I donât watch videos made by people to prove a specific point because theyâre usually dishonest in some way. I wish everyone on all sides would just shut up about this and stop giving attention to any of the people involved, all of whom - IMO - are self-serving attention seekers.
@MBD - yeah, heâs got you there. You two are doomed. DOOOOMED!
You can tell Iâm a pedant because Iâm black on this side, and white on tâother!
P.S. I also think it was a implied threat of violence. Much in the same way âWeâre selling insurance; You want to be safe, right? It would be a shame if something were to happen to your business. Or your daughter.â is a threat, despite the lack of actionable specifics.
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Bless you. Well said.
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The idea that people playing with computers and game consoles or that people who harrass other people on the internet are technically inclined or gifted is an illusion. These people represent hackers as much as they represent gamers.
In fact, if they do realize how futile their existence is, its because they donât have any skills they can be proud of.
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Even Charlie Sheen was able to define a victory condition (âRight every single wrong!â). Considering how many times I have asked gaters in these forums to identify anything they would like to happen as a result of gamergate, and how many replies Iâve gotten that actually identified a single thing that they would like to happen*, I canât even conceive of what âwinningâ would mean. Winning implies there is a something they are trying to win.
Like, if their goal was to get hats, and most of them had hats now, we could say they were winning. But they donât have a goal, theyâre just angry. Maybe their goal is actually just to be very, very angry. If thatâs true then maybe there is a sense in which they are winning.
* Thatâs zero, by the way
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They are treating this âcampaignâ as if it was a triple A video game title - they are going to keep grinding through the gameplay even while they hate it.
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When you put it that way yes, there are absolutely individuals in this discussion who ground through Molten Core or Naxxramas and liked it >:D
An example of a threatening letter
What an uncensored Letter to MLK reveals
n. âLend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure,â the letter demands. It concludes with a deadline of 34 days âbefore your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.â
âThere is only one thing left for you to do,â the author warns vaguely in the final paragraph. âYou know what it is.â
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They are treating this âcampaignâ as if it was a triple A video game title - they are going to keep grinding through the gameplay even while they hate it.
Luckily, triple A video game titles tend to be short
Yeah, the question of objectives is an interesting one. ZenOfDesign proposed that the rage of GamerGate could be usefully channeled into a consumer advocacy group, and got quite a lot of shit for it
http://www.zenofdesign.com/dear-gamergate-please-form-a-consumer-organization-kthxbye/
http://www.zenofdesign.com/gamr-you-have-statements-i-have-mild-responses/
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