Before there was Gamergate there was ....
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I thought you were going to say "Athiesm+" because that's one of the early marks from when all hell broke loose in the Culture War.
Yeah the Evelevatorgate/Dawkins "Dear Muslima" thing was an early wake-up call for me too. I remember some years after it had happened bringing Dawkins up to a friend who was very into his work during the "New Atheism" years and being very confused when I got an earful about what an asshole Dawkins was.
Part of me wonders how he's handling the whole Rowling affair, because he was also really into the Harry Potter books.
This is why you can't cut off your old Left-wing friends. You should keep your distance as necessary, but your social and emotional connections to them should remain, just in case they get to the point where they are attacked by their fellow comrades.
"Elevatorgate", "Donglegate" and "Atheism+" were when I realized there was an enemy on the left that was every bit as bad as if not worse than the enemy on the right.
I was already familiar with the menace these people posed by the time gamergate came along. At least, I thought I was familiar. I now realize that they are even worse than I thought they were back then.
And now think about all the people that correctly identified what was happening but have since fallen victim to the same mindset and tactics as Rebecca Watson has back then, only for different reasons. Some fell with Gamergate, some fell with Trump, some are falling right now with the trannies and pedos ...
Thunderf00t. Used to really enjoy his scam takedowns and experiments.
Then after Brexit and especially Trump, he just couldn't help bringing them up all the fucking time.
I sometimes wonder. I mean, I get it, there's things one really cares about. But ... If you care about your content you have to realize that it can't be injected into everything, no? Like, go ahead, make content specific to that pet peeve, but what makes you think people will enjoy it to hear about [insert random topic] in a video about [insert random topic that doesn't even remotely link to pet peeve]
Yeah, that's why we have to stay in video-games and show kids that they aren't fish swimming in water, they are swimming in shit. "Everything you know is wrong".
The good news is that the Left are so overplaying their hand that I think there's going to be much more cynicism against the Leftwing establishment in Gen Z and Z+1 than ever before.