"How did it come to this?"
As was once said by King Theoden. I remember seeing those movies when I was a kid,17 or 18 I think. A simpler time, I loved going to movies. My pops would take my brothers and I almost every time my mother and sister were on the warpath from Aunt Flo visiting. Kek, can't even make that joke anymore. I sit here and think of simpler times and how much I fucked up.
When gamergate first started I didn't give a shit. Like "who fucking cares about some girl getting her ass censored?", I said freshly out of college (well plus a year moving back in with my parent from the collapse and Obama). Little did I know how slowly it starts.
I used to laugh at my dad despite him probably being my best friend, mentor, and guide now. He would bring up Hannity or Bill O'Reilly talking about the culture war. Even my mother back in the 90s warned me how the gay agenda was a real thing and once the slippery slope starts you can't stop it. Laughed at her too.
I'm 35 now. Got my daughters from their Baptist school since that's where we decided to send them during the Sweet and Sour Sickness. My wife, the most oblivious person in the world (with such great blonde classics as "its so sad that Ray Charles died before he got to see his movie"), even is saying "hey, these people are fucking lying" at the news.
In the past 10 years I don't think I have changed much. But a few months ago I saw a post from a friend of a friend saying "(username) is a fucking fash, i wish he would have died back when he was sick". This hit me for some reason even though I haven't spoken to said person in 5 years. Wasn't even close to begin with. At times I want to go all "SIR" on them. "You guys wanna see a fascist, I'll show you a fucking fascist".
That last part wasn't a joke. I don't trust anything I read anymore. I'm scared for my daughter's future. My wife's future. I can take care of myself, that has never been a problem, but when you have a family it just complicates things. I see this dystopian nightmare unfolding right before my eyes with the passport and the news lying to us constantly to get what they want. I feel lost. This is accelerating at such a pace with the news changing their opinions on the fly with the rona even average dumbasses see it. Like the hockey stick graph, where it spikes so large you can't ignore it. Still, the majority are swayed by fear.
Of course it all comes back to the culture war. I feel it's lost. Between the election upset and the rona it was the perfect storm for the communist left to go wild. Trannies teaching our children. Trannies and fags in their cartoons. Equity above all else. If you see something, say something.
I digress. This is why I don't like KiA1. This is so much more than just video games. Their sole focus on that will be their downfall. You know how "the political is personal" changed into "the personal is political" by the prog left? Your ENTIRE BEING is political to them. Everything you think, say, do, buy, support.
The fact that you all are here and the other dot win communities gives me hope. At least I feel like I'm not the only looking at his zombie friends, rehearsing talking points and consooming Fortnite, screaming "DO YOU NOT SEE SOMETHING IS WRONG?".
Even when I first heard it, my answer was: "The personal is political is the cry of the totalitarian."
It's yet another motte and bailey setup perpetrated by bad actors. Hey, let's have a talk about your favorite video game, and maybe just this once, let's use a feminist lens, eh? Fast forward five years and it's all leftist lenses all the time.
I wouldn't say that. During 2012-2014 they were very aggressive. They weren't just trying to have an "open discussion about feminism". It's one of the reasons there was blowback that formed GamerGate. They'd already been pushing well above their capabilities for years.
My bad, I got the years wrong because I’m a little older than most here. My university experience at a liberal arts college circa the late 1990s was that literary criticism was just starting to shift from “let’s try all these different lenses!” to “all radical leftism, all the time”. Now that I think about it, that timeline makes perfect sense; these liberal arts grads would have matriculated into video game journalism in the early 2000s and “bloomed” into total retards from the late 2000s to the early 2010s.
Okay, fair enough.
I'd still be willing to allow that in academia as an actual practice of subversively testing different perspectives... but that means including all perspectives, including the white nationalist, national socialist, monarchist, and Zoroastrianist perspectives.
I'd argue that's an imperative part of academia. Additionally, identifying the value that each perspective brings to the table also happens to defeat the concept of post-modernism too.