Most people radically underestimate the role that misogyny played and plays in online far right radicalization, and Gamergate was *the* critical turning point for the far right using online misogynist culture as an on-ramp into the far right.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgwmdz/paul-pelosi-attacker-gamergate
Bannon very deliberately recruited Milo Yiannopoulos to exploit Gamergate and use it to expand misogynists' open hatred of women into open hatred of oppressed people in general.
It worked very, very well.
@gwensnyder I wish I wasn't so close to this piece of history. It was and continues to be horrifying.
I recall seeing and dismissing some screed about ethics in game journalism right around the same time I wandered into /r/KotakuinAction for like half an hour, becoming increasingly horrified and disgusted.
I quickly locked down my identity info online and was thankful I never posted much to begin with, because I'm a queer woman with opinions about games and other things.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
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