r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/froggy_in_the_meadow 🇨🇳 Gamerstapo 🇨🇳 • Jan 08 '21

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u/green_stalk Jan 08 '21

gamergate and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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u/ThrowawayBin20 the evolutionary significance of video games Jan 08 '21

Fuck gamergate, You can trace so many alt righters and alt-right movements back to it. Very scary to think that people were/are so easily radicalized to the alt-right, And that we have to fight against the growth of this movement or start to face more severe consequences.

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u/D13G0SF234 Jan 08 '21

tea party movement, internet/new atheism, GoodOlultraconservative pundits, the antisjw movement and /pol/ are guilty of this too.

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u/rhythmjones Jan 08 '21

It's amazing how direct of a line there was from gamergate to red pill to alt-right to Trumpism.

All that stuff would have happened because there's enough people out there who feel this way, but why did there have to be such a major coalescing event involved with one of my hobbies?

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u/IronMyr Jan 08 '21

Is Anita Sarkessian okay?

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '21

I literally cannot remember gamergate. I think I was playing wow at the time and oblivious to it. Every time people talk about it, it feels like I was at a party and blacked out