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HoloDust on 31 October 2014
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DanneSandin said:
HoloDust said:
DanneSandin said:
I haven't watched the video yet, but I think it's important to remember that no matter what GamerGate started out as, it's changed. Media (and not just gaming media - media as a whole) has determined what it is about NOW. The discourse now is about misogyny within the gaming community, that has been determined by the larger debate.

GG "followers" might argue that it's about journalistic integrity, but that's not what is being discussed when talking about GG nowadays; it's shifted towards death threats and online harassment.


Perhaps you should watch few videos before stating something like this, cause that is exactly what those journalists want you to believe. By picking few bad apples and then focusing everything on misogyny and harassment, which neither #gamergate nor #notyourshield condone, quite the opposite, game media is deliberetly diverting issue from its own corruption - which is nothing suprising tbh, specially with, shall I say testimonies, like Tachikoma's in recent thread here, about how deep that rabbit hole goes.

If you want to learn a bit more about all this, you can, for instance, google GamerGate and Totalbiscuit, instead of believing whatever major game media outlets that have a stake in all this are telling you.

But I'm not talking about game journalism, am I? I said media as a whole has determined what GamerGate is, and it's not about journalistic intregtrity any more. It started out as such, but with all the misogyny, harassments and death threats, that's where the debate has shifted. If you wanna discuss journalistic integrity you really need to start a different movement, move away from the term GG, because no media outlet will take you seriously using that term. I'm NOT saying that game journalism shouldn't be scruttiniesed, but it should be done so without all the other things murking said debate.


Several people have already answered you on this, specially Tachikoma, so I'm just going to repeat one part - that is exactly what they want you to believe, and that is what you obviously fell for.

Again, look up bit more on the matter, and you will see amount of manipulation from gaming media (and media in general, who are after sensationalism) and how hard they are trying to portray GG as violent group of "white male misogynyst nerds" in order to dodge the main issue...which in return started #notyourshield, but you won't be seeing that in most major game media outlets since that does not suite their agendas.