Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

lol @ that adam baldwin playing card joke upthread, i always love it when @MomsAgainstGam's followers stick around to steadfastly gaslight everyone who takes the bait:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0bp8-sIcAAQNxt.jpg

'I don't know if I can handle one of my favourite comedians attacking GamerGate'

http://i1.minus.com/ibfqApyt6gJEz4.PNG

NYC if you didn't know was taken over by skeleton hipsters in the past decade

what is all this skeleton bullshit about anyway

http://www.themarysue.com/make-your-computer-auto-convert-any-mention-of-sjw-to-skeleton-for-maximum-spoopiness/

goddammit http://www.themarysue.com/make-your-computer-auto-convert-any-mention-of-sjw-to-skeleton-for-maximum-spoopiness/

A chrome extension that replaces every "sjw" mention with "skeleton"

I really hope they follow through with their plan to pre-emptively mock a hypothetical SNL sketch about Gamergate with their own sketch which will be incisive enough to shame SNL and the entire mainstream media.

arf! xp

also these hosers talking about SJWs sound just like rabid scienos barking about SPs or whatever, same blind herd mentality fueling and forming the hatred

http://i.imgur.com/jyjjz8B.png

lol

Hahahaha

amazing

Ha

i might have to explain to coworkers why i'm laughing so hard right now. this may take a while.

lol

I really hope they follow through with their plan to pre-emptively mock a hypothetical SNL sketch about Gamergate with their own sketch which will be incisive enough to shame SNL and the entire mainstream media.

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

that would pretty much be the best thing ever

It would be pretty amazing if they were able to write rehearse and perform a sketch entirely by spamming emails at SNL advertisers.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241

That rules

amazing

Is Gamergate a vast, complex, and diverse community?

Yes! It is not composed, as the mainstream media would lead you to believe, solely of white male trolls. It also has female trolls. It has African-American trolls and Asian trolls, gay trolls and straight trolls. In fact, Gamergate is all about the inclusion of anyone—regardless of gender, race, or sexual orientation—whose views on video games and how we should think about them conform exactly to those of the movement at large.

It is important to remember that the members of Gamergate, only some of whom threaten to rape and murder women, are simply fighting for ethics in gaming journalism.

gaming journalism

it's importnat

fuckin' a

https://twitter.com/taradinoc/status/524947420992397312

lolololol

haha beat me to it. classic material.

lol yes

https://twitter.com/booom3/status/524950857042128896

but... it probably means this is never going away, is it

good christ, is there anyone involved in gamergate with a sense of humour and/or irony

jesus is freej4har still going? that's kind of what it reminds me of at this point

xp no. the answer to that is no. well, some of them do and have fun by lying, i'm sure.

DJP - the twitter you posted went protected. Anyone screngrab it?

no screen but:

Scare-a-dino Hatchet ‏@taradinoc
@ClickHole A fine parody of how Gawker et al portray GG. Might be too subtle for some readers, though. Can't wait to see the updates!

aah. Sigh.

omg

heh

max going ham. good show.

Fondly recalling when I was perplexed by reddit's nerd based misogyny, now it's a movement :<

Transparent and documented though it was, the obsessive campaign worked. Mercedes-Benz—listed on the site as a former partner, and therefore a target—briefly paused its ads on a network that serves ads to Gawker. I've been told that we've lost thousands of dollars already, and could potentially lose thousands more, if not millions. Consequently, the editorial director of Gawker Media, Joel Johnson, took to the front page of Gawker to clarify that Sam Biddle does not want to bully anyone, and that Gawker Media as a company and institution is not pro-bullying. (Let's note here that the admitted goal of our Gamergate trolls is not to eke an apology out of Sam, or the company, but to literally put us out of business entirely.)

amazing the years of gawker pissing numerous ppl + groups off and it was the gamers that figured out how to hurt it

max otm

this whole thing has become like the "most photographed barn in america" of the internet.

the one two punch of johnson + max sort of has and eats the cake at once though, no?

this whole thing has become like the "most photographed barn in america" of the internet.

― ryan, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:56 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha otm

max's post is rad but i think this is pretty on point: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/525018087532539905

pretty sure that qualifies as bullying

apologies for apologies

Gamergate vs. Gawker... I'm so torn.

Just glad someone is finally stepping up and saying bullying is bad.