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

"[Gamergate] gave the US left (including the Dems) time to mount their own counterargument to the social justice movement and thereby not appear beholden to it--the quick adoption of "social justice warrior" as a negative stereotype speaks to this."

what on earth

there was a week of meetings at Camp David over it. Prez decided to forgo using the term "social justice" in order to pacify the neckbeard lobby.

Auerbach in the entertainingly precarious position where there people who he'd piss off by turning GG have spotted what he's doing, but anyone in actual GG hasn't - given half a chance he'd try to be the next Milo (!) but the fish, they aren't biting.

I just see those blocks of text and skim them and just don't want to even bother. If you take everything written about GG about 1% of it has to do with actual video games and the other 99% is a vortex of high school gossip-style bs spinning around in a toilet that is too full of shit to fully flush out.

aaaahhahahah yes, political historians will eventually unite around 2014 as a realignment year, when the US left (including the Dems) finally developed a counterargument to the social justice movement, around the nation-rocking flashpoint of ethics in video game journalism. amazing.

it gets more hilarious the more i look at it

It mainly seems like people that are bored with video games and would rather treat social media like a new kind of game and using other people (who are real but may as well be virtual avatars) as NPCs/enemies in whatever game they are making up in their heads. All of the scary left wing figures they are fighting actually talk about video games and engage w the medium far more than GG drama queens.

a vortex of high school gossip-style bs spinning around in a toilet that is too full of shit to fully flush out.

^^^^ ty for this frankly unforgettable image

are these guys getting a booth at e3

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 5:50 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even a shithole meeting room (not a booth even) in the basement is like way expensive, barebones table booth space in kentia hall would probably be like 30K or something, i think it was 20ish last time we bothered

i smell a kickstarter

i can't believe this is still a thing.

how

ethics in journalism iirc

really bringing it all together

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/39fill/discussionnow_you_see_why_gamergate_matters/

tl;dr: To quote /u/AlexHD's version of an old poem:

First they came for the Gamergaters, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Gamergater.

Then they came for the fat haters, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a fat hater.

Then they came for the Reddit users, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Reddit user.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[–]IanPatrick1966 32 points 3 hours ago*

To confirm what you're saying: I've never posted in fatpeoplehate but once they banned the sub and didn't ban others like /r/coontown I took up the mantle of honorary shit-lord and have been upvoting posts from fellow shitlords across the entire site. I've also never even heard of Gamer Gate... but frankly I don't give any fucks about video games, journalism, or women so :/

EDIT: Was banned from Niel Degrasee Tyson's AMA because I asked his opinion on fat people. Da. Fuq.

Judge all black people by the actions of the few - Racism
Judge all people who are against censorship and thought policing by the actions of a few - Social justice
This is the problem with social 'justice':

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -- C.S. Lewis

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[–]KiltmanenatorInexperienced Irregular Folds 5 points 7 hours ago
That's some top shelf quality posting there, leader.

oh good, now my skin is crawling

wowww_something random and stupid 6 points 3 hours ago
If only Jack Thompson could have been a victimized woman with feminism at his back. He would have made mad bank instead of being laughed out of his profession.
Anita doesn't even have a profession, and she's hailed as skilled in her field.
It sounds like a terribly bad joke, if you think about it.

Atratus920 2 points 3 hours ago
Straight fucking up, man.
Logic no longer exists in this world as something good people can use to move forward. We have to learn how to shout loud and repeat the same "victim" exploiting crap. Actual thought apparently no longer matters.

Every time I look into this stuff it is just a bizarre anti-realm of newspeak and oblivious irony. A lot of it does read like teenagers who just read Rand for the first time, the world is just a laboratory for them to test the limits of free speech, which drives an ideology of self-victimization, historical revisionism, and toxic paranoia.

They rant about SJWs claiming the victim, while every post is whiny shit about how the entire world is a conspiracy against them.

They rant about the dangers of censorship and opportunists yet embrace an opportunist who made his career censoring games.

All the bad qualities and tactics they project onto SJWs are all they have. They are the only things holding together this leaderless directionless destructive 'movement'.

this Jack Thompson thing is so bizarre, he wanted to ban GTA one of the games they defend against SJWS!!!!!!! wtf

one of the great far-right ideas these kids have imbibed is that "progressivism" is the new state religion so contemporary feminist/antiracist critics and 80s-era xtian fundie media fighter types are the same thing

I fucking WISH progressivism was the new state religion

yeah i guess

also i suppose the tendency of ppl who are complete pieces of shit to congregate together

ilg board description

wait wait wait these twatjockeys are DEFENDING Jack thompson now, wtf!?

I noticed a ton of /kotakuinaction subreddit threads firin up once the fatpeoplehate batsignal went up =\

feel like this might be helpful some day so just putting it here
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bsmOx5BBVks/VXozuLo7ZDI/AAAAAAAByqk/E-ziaufd4k8/s1600/Girls_Love_Stories-012-20.jpg

are you ready for ethics lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OALIUJ-yie0

whut

love the animation, too bad it's for something so stupid

it's Richard Williams, of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_and_the_Cobbler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZibUpH-AME

oh yes, that richard williams. For a min, I got him confused with Ken & Roberta Williams

seems about right btw
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/this-industry-is-fucked/

it's still going

http://spjairplay.com/update6/

what the hell

Grim · 1 Day Ago

What this sounds like, Mr K, is the betrayal everyone on the GG side has been expecting from you and that I’ve spent considerable time disarming and convincing people to continue to give you a chance.

15 minutes isn’t enough to cover the history and it is very important to give a context. A compromise might have been a briefing document but the history is necessary to understand everything.

All these people have been making even more effort than I have been to convince people this is a worthwhile endeavour, an effort you’ve just managed to utterly undermine.

Compromise is possible, but eventually there’s not much more you can give. People have been demanding compromise from GG but not reciprocating for some time.

Fixing problems isn’t immaturity, cutting and running after creating a problem and leaving the big boys to clean it up after you is pretty immature.

Yes, it is consuming, because it’s a big issue and even more so it’s a single battleground in the much larger culture war. It’s going to take effort. Perhaps you’re learning – as many have – that this multibillion dollar industry isn’t so trivial after all.

Maybe you should have tried to smooth things over before posting this.

If you need a mediator perhaps I could offer my services as a fresh face and figure out where things got twisted.

clicking thru the links it appears that yes, that is this guy:

grimachu designed a card game wherein the players are hentai tentacle monsters and compete to rape people, unless im missing something

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:03 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

15 minutes isn’t enough to cover the history and it is very important to give a context.

Do they think this is some labyrinthine conundrum that mere mortal minds have difficulty comprehending? How difficult is it to understand "gamers are deluded whining babies; here are a series of amazing and pathetic examples as to why"

Perhaps you’re learning – as many have – that this multibillion dollar industry isn’t so trivial after all.

that can be used as a readymade response to p much any argument ever. Finally something good has come out of GG!

maybe he could just stand on stage and shout that particular racial epithet for a while

https://twitter.com/oliverbcampbell

kind of an excitable guy

how come mario doesn't have any black friends

looks like I've ggautoblock'd him, what a delight! :D

lol PROVEN BY SCIENCE: statistically significant correlation between harassing women online and sucking at Halo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/20/men-who-harass-women-online-are-quite-literally-losers-new-study-finds

that doesn't sound like a very like a very scientific study, if i'm being honest

im pretty good at halo

#notallmen

that doesn't sound like a very like a very scientific study, if i'm being honest

― Nhex, Tuesday, July 21, 2015

gtfo there's a data table and everything

lol