You know what would impress me with Gamergate? If all the decent people in the movement who honestly believe it's about ethics in gaming journalism is leave the movement and start their own. Leave the sexist, misoginistic idiots behind, the people who continue to doxx people for any reason whatsoever(the latest we'll get to in a second), and just start their own movement. Seriously the label cannot be that attractive to people.
So remember when I said "doxx people for any reason whatsoever"? The woman who runs the Wowhead liveblog was liveblogging what was going on. She transcribed Michael Morhaime's opening speech at Blizzcon, which had a part in it where he spoke out against Gamergate's policy of doxxing and harassment and urged people to take the good vibes and feelings from the weekend forward, and she got death threats for it. Let me repeat. She got death threats for basically repeating what this man was saying as he said it.
Ironbite-I say it again, leave the label behind and get a new one
*le gasp* Are you seriously trying to incite Gamergaters into splitting from
their own brothers over these bullshit Social Justice issues? How
dare you inject politics into a debate where it clearly has
absolutely no place whatsoever? You are just a sheep of the liberal establishment, trying to weaken a consumer movement with legitimate grievances over ethics in hobbyist journalism!
Besides, our brothers from the Manosphere are not misogynistic at all. They do not hate women, nor do they wish harm to them. Their fight against the widespread discrimination of straight males does not make them sexist, in the same way racial segregation advocates cannot be called racist. You are just being intolerant of people with different conceptions than yours about the rightful position of women within society.
Serious answer: it's been proposed before, multiple times, by public as well as anonymous voices. Some people actually tried, and besides pushing Gamergaters even deeper in their us-versus-them insanity, it didn't amount to anything. We'll just have to accept the fact that the issues that Gamergate is dealing with are
that much more important than our first-world problems.
And I'm going to stop there, before I start ranting about the kind of ideas and beliefs that are being held as consensus within the GG community.
That's actually a fair point, not every Gater is a harasser and some are primarily interested in the issues. I don't agree with their take on the issues but that's another topic. I do think that it started with harassment, the gamergate tags origins are evidence enough of this.
I actually agree that the Literally Whos are the stupidest possible choice for a two-sided debate about Gamergate. But with all those hyperboles and dubious metaphores about the KKK and climate change and the GOP and every Gamergater being a troll and a criminal... the actual point of the letter become all too easy to miss, and all too easy to dismiss. You can't expect to be taken seriously after displaying so much bad faith.
I mean, I probably
could have used that one about #NotYourShield and poor Republican voters, but that's because I am usually preaching to the choir and/or arguing with known lost causes.
