| teigaga said: I think whats more eluded to here is that there isn't harrasment and threats coming from their side. That maybe is an ignorant stance, but we certainly haven't seen a lot of it in the media, nor have we seen people from that side dismissing or cosigning that behaviour. Even in the case of Boogie2988 , from what he tweeted there was no direct correlation between the threats and gamergate opponents. The video the comment was posted in response to was actually opposing people on both sides of the fence. In opposite cases people have threatened and harrassed the likes of Anita S and very clearly aligned themselves with Gamergate. |
That's a function of how the media creates and shapes perceptions of reality, and we know where a majority of the media stands on this issue. I don't really read gaming media unless it's linked somewhere so most of my exposure to this whole thing has been through forums, especially the very anti-Gamergate Gamergate thread at GAF. And I can say with confidence that whenever a death threat or a doxxing of a Gamergate advocate has leaked through into that echo chamber, it was just as promptly met with accusations that it was fake/self-inflicted as when it happens to the other side.
Not to say that it isn't much more prevalent from the Gamergate side. I'm sure it is, but I also think it's to be expected that a blogger who has thousands of readers will receive more correspondence (and thus more threats) than some random person on Twitter.
