Gwen Snyder is uncivilNov 15, 2023

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

Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate

The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.

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@gwensnyder I honestly underestimated how thoroughly Gamergate just...simultaneously poisoned so many minds and at the same time just uncorked a literal ocean of bigotry.

Only in the last couple of years and with a lot of reading did I actually fully start to see how screwed up it was and is still.

Nov 15, 2023 at 9:13pmWeb