They should be embarrassed, death threats and whining over toys ought to be embarassing.
Indeed. your side has wrecked alot of lives over toys and comics. And if they are just toys and comics, why the push to inject intersectional post-left ideology into them? Because you know and I know that they arent just toys, but culture, and occupying the cultural spaces gives you leverage. While "gamer" is a fundamentally consumerist identity, games are culture and culture is important.
The reason people keep bringing gamergate up is because it demonstrates how easy it is for politically unsophisticated young men who are overinvested in their hobbies to be recruited by extremists. It serves as a reminder not to let communities you are involved with fester, and the futility of trying to talk sense into people who have mistaken nerd rage for an identity.
Indeed.
Watching as insane post-left intersectionalists get creators fired, doxxed, and harassed for such things as supporting trump and not being down with the latest newspeak is a sign of how extreme the culture has become. Even our consumer products have to conform the the social justice Gleichschaltung.
I do have to say, seeing women talking about video games being described as "occupation and appropriation" is genuinely pretty funny, though. There is such a desperate urge to play the victim that "people disagree with me about video games!" is taken up as some sort of bloody shirt.
Occupation is what occurs when people with no authentic claim to a space control its definitions in order to exploit the space for political, social or economic profit. Occupation always begins with deconstruction of the space in question, then leads to a demand for inclusion, elimination of the processes of gatekeeping, condemnation of the original bounds of the space, a redefinition of the space, fragmentation of the space and finally expulsion of dissenters by the new gatekeepers. The space in question is then exploited, looted and often declines.
I was gaming before most of those guys were alive. So have lots of other intersectional feminists. You don't get to decide who gets to create, play or talk about video games.
And neither do you. But guess what? You do decide dont you?
'Gaming' is an occupied space, so your side gets to control the definitions and gatekeep the space. Oddly enough this wasnt the case 20 years ago.
What happened? Occupation happened.
I doubt that Christian Critique, Neo-reactionary Critique or other forms of Critique would be permitted any influence in the occupied space.
Thats why The Seitch exists.
