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

"the night of long knives writ large"

ties in to the holocaust denial

Sargon's a Chess King that I think you oughta listen to.

http://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/s/sargon-iii-2fh/sargon-iii_1.png

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/here-are-the-gamergater-song-parodies-that-will-change-your

gamergate, all my troubles seemed so far away
then we learned journos use much foul play
yes i believe, in gamergate

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2CLAZLIYAAPkSb.png

It’s too late, for the other groups
They took down Occupy
and fucked over atheism
But listen, everybody, we still can win
We just gotta keep on exposing all the truth

oh man

excellent stuff

so um this is a depressing tweet from brianna wu https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/530626215632441344

http://i.imgur.com/MzAi7lL.jpg

you know things are going badly for gamergaters when they're getting clowned by reddit's bitcoin board

haa http://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lsauj/rbitcoin_and_rkotakuinaction_have_a_lot_more_in/cly02n1 (from deep within that hilarious tangle of downvoted comments)

also

GG seems to have descended into backstabbing and conspiracy theories. I'm watching, slack-jawed and horrified.
Milo Yiannopoulos @Nero

descended... from front-stabbing and conspiracy theories, I assume

that zen of design article has so many wonderful details

"MacKenzie Kelly was an Republican running for City Council in my home city of Austin in District 6. She ran on a pro-gamergate platform. She advertised this on her website with an article that directly plagiarized Clickhole’s gamergate coverage."

lol

back in the world of real nongamergate people, this meatheaded ad is running with alarming frequency on the teevee
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7sVr/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-discover-your-power
this is not a game I would enjoy playing

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So...xbox?

more in not-joke-getting: game festival judge fired over 'misandry' joke

http://ungaming.tumblr.com/post/102306659600/i-cant-believe-im-even-bothering-to-write-this

oh and i didn't know this: the purple and green color scheme is apparently an ancient 4chan rape meme:

http://boingboing.net/2014/11/03/gamergates-color-scheme-is-a.html

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3037941/the-secret-meaning-behind-gamergates-branding?

lol my god this shit

it gets worse the more layers get peeled huh

or better, more ethical

Super ethical

almost totally free of rape jokes

Excepting the logo and branding and tweets

it is kinda funny how there are any number of people within their ranks to whom its all a big joke

like all the unsavory particularities of this #gamorgate aside it wld be pretty funny to rile up a bunch of hapless teens into creating a media firestorm

idk if thats what really happened but there does seem to be at least an element of for teh lolz operating

oh for sure, the heart of the thing is total cynical lols, but it's just as bad as the visible front

its bad but in a diff way def an intersting cultural study like how does nihilism produce extreme ignorant ideology

is it just me or are most of the sober moderate liberal "now now there are some real issues here" gger types all british?

lol shifting from most to all in one sentence.

most of them are all british some are part

well apart from the journalists i guess. auerbach at slate and that erik kain dude at forbes.

ok myth busted already, forget it!

I feel like I've noticed a way disproportionate number of let's play YouTube video game talker types have British accents, idk what's up with British gaming culture as this dominant thing tho

I should really stop reading this shit but I read a post on their subreddit that literally argued that rape jokes aren't as bad as Mattie Brice's joke, because rape jokes aren't intended to cause harm, unlike Brice's joke.

jesus

It really is the most astonishing rushing towards the image of gamers as people who have ~issues with a sense of humour~. Which is kind of the essence of conspiracy theory, that nothing The Accused ever says can have a light or joking meaning, it is all Evidence.

I feel like I've noticed a way disproportionate number of let's play YouTube video game talker types have British accents, idk what's up with British gaming culture as this dominant thing tho

totalbiscuit, who has been pretty visible on the gg thing i suppose, is the archetype of the essentially-conservative brit gamer youtube celeb who is basically attempting to be a bad xerox of jeremy clarkson. i can't stand him, and he sounds like he must be an awful person to be in a room with.

as someone who seldom watches the big gamer youtubes I'd been cheerily imagining GG was mostly not British because uh tea-party crossover I guess. when I do watch gaming youtubes they're mainly randomly selected retro-ish Let's Plays and I never have any idea whether the player is a ~noted figure~ in the gaming youtube world or just some guy

so I was surprised to hear S4rg0n's unedited interview he did w/the BBC: he had an accent and arguing technique* I can only describe as "public school debating society", which combined with reading the GG manifesto thing upthread ("we are just some poor maligned gamers being even-handedly inclusive of oppressed minorities such as men and big-budget 3D shooty games and defending our basic human right never to be reminded of the existence of any other sort of gamer or game") to make me very angry until this thread restored the lols

* harping on abt one question-avoiding point for 15 minutes, in this case GG's charming new tactic of "GG is about ethics in games journalism, therefore any attacks on people who aren't games journalists are by definition nothing to do with GG". the Beeb interviewer came across pretty badly too: mumbly and unprepared. the whole thing is really painful and I do not recommend anyone seek it out, unless maybe you have dangerously low blood pressure, in which case drinking a gallon of salty coffee might be a better option

Tom Scocca ‏@tomscocca 6m
Bald Man Discovers Fedora http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/10/the-sjws-now-get-to-police-speech-on-twitter

ha sick burn

"I can find no reason to oppose a stronger effort by Twitter to prevent individual users from stalking or harassing others"

this guy is almost as pompous as Auerbach

the empire never ended

WomanAgainstFeminism ‏@NoToFeminism 2h2 hours ago
I don’t need fimsns i’m SICK of them taking away free speech! release the thousands of white men jailed for speaking their minds about games

lulz

release the thousands of white men

release the hounds!

Simpsons, cool

dunno if you guys got to the buried lede but the rape joke is a gif of piccolo from dbz fucking vegeta

watched the gif and now im a nu fag thanks alot

Are the Milwaukee Bucks the official basketball team of #Gamergate?

a gif of piccolo from dbz fucking vegeta

truly have no idea what this means. dragonball z?