One of the inciting incidents of GamerGate was a raid on Wizard.chan at the behest of the 'ladies of the moment' who claimed harassment from there. This was a literal and actual collection of very pitiful incels (accurately, the term came from there) who almost categorically cried to each other about how lonely they were and made random stories up to entertain each other. Their ability to 'harass' anyone was profoundly non-existant. But one of the harpies had been pot-shotting them internally for fun and decided their brand of wild internal fiction could be weaponized by a sympathetic press.
By framing alone, the most helpless, weak, and pathetic people perhaps to imaginarily exist even theoretically on the internet, were categorized as evil and attacked by a mass of white knights who had no business ever knowing they even existed at the direction of an evil opportunist with a platform.
I liken it to going into an orphanage, coming out and saying they were all terrorists and without investigation (except, yes, here is a dirty diaper, that is a bio weapon) vaporizing the building with a missile. Then claiming that what happened, see, was you were stealth attacked by them and had to protect yourself.
So, yes, there is nowhere that cannot be utilized in the culture war, even for such an unrelated reason as 'existing.'
One of the inciting incidents of GamerGate was a raid on Wizard.chan at the behest of the 'ladies of the moment' who claimed harassment from there. This was a literal and actual collection of very pitiful incels (accurately, the term came from there) who almost categorically cried to each other about how lonely they were and made random stories up to entertain each other. Their ability to 'harass' anyone was profoundly non-existant. But one of the harpies had been pot-shotting them internally for fun and decided their brand of wild internal fiction could be weaponized by a sympathetic press.
By framing alone, the most helpless, weak, and pathetic people perhaps to imaginarily exist even theoretically on the internet, were categorized as evil and attacked by a mass of white knights who had no business ever knowing they even existed at the direction of an evil opportunist with a platform.
I liken it to going into an orphanage, coming out and saying they were all terrorists and without investigation (except, yes, here is a dirty diaper, that is a bio weapon) vaporizing the building with a missile. Then claiming that what happened, see, was you were stealth attacked by them and had to protect yourself.
So, yes, there is nowhere that cannot be utilized in the culture war, even for such an unrelated reason as 'existing.'