Altruino said:
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Nice virtue signalling and narrative building from Brandon there.
It's always about 'group X' not liking someone instead of people taking responsibility for their own actions - you know, like Alison Rapp having a side business of selling risque pictures of herself, allegedly under an anonymous name despite teasing some pictures on her personal Twitter account and sharing pictures with envelopes from the photoshoot clearly marked "A. Rapp", some of which featured her holding Nintendo products. Perhaps people with involvement in GamerGate did indeed harass her and intend to get her fired - I haven't seen evidence yet, and I strong disagree with blindly believing alleged victims without seeing evidence, but then again I don't follow GG and haven't done much research into that side of this story yet - but you yourself cannot just keep blaming others when you've done things that would get most people fired.
At least the meltdown on Twitter and all the people -- especially the various editors, writers and producers for outlets like Ars Technica, GameSpot, Game Informer, IGN and Polygon -- immediately jumping in to virtually hug Rapp has been hilarious, and a little disturbing, to comb through. I particularly love Rapp's claim that the industry is full of folks that refuse to embrace "diversity of thought" whilst she's simulatenously blocking pretty much everyone on Twitter that even questions her. On a larger scale, why is that "diversity" only means a specific kind of diversity? Why do you never see left-leaning feminists calling for more conservative or classically liberal opinions? Why not more praise for the different schools of thought within feminism like individualist feminism?
