What is Gamrgate???

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the_dark_lewd said:

It's a big mess. A sort of culture war in the games industry where the two sides are roughly the far left-wing (or "progressives") VS the center-left and the right-wing.
You can more or less know which side you'll agree with based on which of those groups you fall into.

As for understanding it, the reporting on it was frankly atrocious and 90% of what you'll read in the media about it is just opinion pieces with little-to-no evidence for the claims made. (as the VGChartz article rightly points out)

To get a rough idea of it, the best place to go would be the David Pakman interviews on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETVcInunAss&list=PLNlFRucnM-Eh81w9RY34OL7A9UjD26KDO

He interviews various prominent people from both "sides" and does a pretty good job of remaining neutral.

far left? you shitting me? anarchists and communists are far left. "progressivs" are the radicals of the centre. they dont talk about real social problems, they are just talking about themself and why they should have more power, they dont want equality or better chances for the poor.