So where's the skepticism towards these people receiving threats?
After all, they can just as easily be faking all of this shit. Even/especially the syringe.
As far as the "moral high ground" goes... how come these people represent everyone who oppose/doesn't stand with Gamergate, but the MRA dudebros don't represent everyone who does support Gamergate?
You're remarkably fantastic at doing double standards.
(By the way, I don't recall claiming that the anti-gamergate crowd had the moral high ground, either. In fact, I remmber claiming that NO ONE had the moral high ground in this scenario. And I still stand by that, no matter how one-sided you present everything.)
I agree, anything can be faked on the Internet, for Twitter all you have to do is register for a few sockpuppets and then use those sockpuppets to tweet those kinds of messages to yourself. You can pretty much do this on any social media as far as I know. Given how dudebros act on the Internet and the nature of 4Chan and such, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bunch of MRAs doing this in order to discredit so-called "SJWs." It wouldn't be the first, they have been behind the
bikini bridge hoax designed to make women feel ashamed of their bodies (like we don't get that enough?) and also the
"End Father's Day" Twitter hashtag designed to make it seem that feminists want to get rid of Father's Day.
Because of these two examples, I have to wonder if this whole Gamergate thing was engineered. It may not have been in the start but very close to it. Things can be photoshopped, sockpuppets can be created and things can be made up. I think that the syringe thing could very well be made up, for one, the Post Office would've have somehow picked up on something that was suspicious, even more so now after 9/11 and they would probably have seen something amiss about the package. Two, the syringe is filled yet the picture shows the medical seal that syringes are wrapped in that has been opened. Someone sending such a thing would more than likely have not sent the wrapping and furthermore would have put the syringe in a box or more sturdier packaging than an envelope as the plastic could get broken in mail handling. So I think that Milo could very well be making this up, also he doesn't show the side with the address on the front though he could redact that out and show the postage stamping marking where it may have come from. You could get a syringe like that from a friend or relative that has diabetes or multiple sclerosis, or you could steal one from a hospital or you could have a friend that works in a hospital steal one for you.
I'm sorry but seeing the shit that some of these 4Chan types do, I'm inclined to believe that while Gamergate has a good point about journalism, I think it's just an excuse to attack so-called "SJWs," "feminists," and women in particular.
Also, I think I've read somewhere that the #notyourshield hashtag was a form of astroturfing, or it started out as such, to make it look like minorities were against the other side.
Edit: The second article from The Daily Dot mentions to other anti-women hoaxes by 4Chan called #WhitesCan'tBeRaped hashtag designed to mimic SJWs' anti-white sentiment and Operation Freebleeding to encourage women to not use sanitary napkins. I don't think that one has to guess hard that most people from 4Chan and Reddit are misogynists and anti-feminists.
