| binary solo said: Well let's be even handed here. The people who oppose the cultural critics also tag any opinion they find to be disagreeable as harmful and problematic. If they didn't find these things harmful some of them wouldn't be anywhere near so vitriolic in their reaction. And indeed the vitriol being spewed from is by degrees worse coming (from what I've read) from the anti-SJWs (for want of a better term). So in actual fact no one's opinion is welcome in gamer culture unless you are sitting in your own ideological echo chamber. But that is the entirety of our social and political discourse, so gamer culture pretty much reflects our broader socio-political culture vis-a-vis intolerance towards people who have different ideas about the way things should be. |
It is true that it's just a microcosm of political discourse in general and not at all specific to gaming, but I can't really agree that one side is more vitriolic than the other. I think it can seem that way because the establishment in this case is represented by the writers, each of whom has a megaphone, and the anti-establishment is the thousands of angry people all shouting at them. (This is also why it's difficult to have a "conversation" about these issues.) But even a cursory glance at Twitter shows that the vehemence is pretty equally distributed. In fact, you'll find most of these very same writers engaging the very sort of trolling and "harassment" they pretend to deplore in their columns. It's easy to be rational and act like you float above the fray when you have that kind of a platform, but when you're just another Twitterite you get dragged down into the mire mighty quickly. It's the nature of that terrible medium.
