I'd heard about this. Seriously, firing Mercante is a bare minimum, they deserve so much worse after what she just did.
Edit: Oh, the petition doesn't say it. Mercante got in touch with HIS WIFE and "asked for her view" on how she feels about him "making violent statements and threats" towards people, something she can't actually back up. Honestly, this story probably deserves its own thread, I'm not in a position to make one right now if someone else wants to. Also a defender saying "Yeah, find their wives and kids and string'em up. It's consequences." It's going down the route of "this is the kind of shit that actually justifies violent retribution from the right."
They're already burning, but making shit like this just pushes them back into the limelight. Next we'll get a bunch of articles saying incels are trying to shut down journalism or some bull.
And most of these rags are filled with and march around like women.
Taylor Lorenz made a complete joke of herself, lost her biggest journalism job, yet is still going around writing articles for smaller rags and contributing to the same zeitgeist. Proving that nothing really gets accomplished by ignoring that, it just gives them the power to keep pumping garbage into the tide without anyone keeping tabs on it.
I'd heard about this. Seriously, firing Mercante is a bare minimum, they deserve so much worse after what she just did.
Edit: Oh, the petition doesn't say it. Mercante got in touch with HIS WIFE and "asked for her view" on how she feels about him "making violent statements and threats" towards people, something she can't actually back up. Honestly, this story probably deserves its own thread, I'm not in a position to make one right now if someone else wants to. Also a defender saying "Yeah, find their wives and kids and string'em up. It's consequences." It's going down the route of "this is the kind of shit that actually justifies violent retribution from the right."
EDIT 2: Here is a tweet from Mark Kern going into it. He has a few tweets about it. https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1787963134424347065
Defeat kotaku by not talking about them.
They're already burning, but making shit like this just pushes them back into the limelight. Next we'll get a bunch of articles saying incels are trying to shut down journalism or some bull.
KIA1 said the same about people like Zoe Quinn. In fact that idea is what spawned the "Literally Who" meme.
Then a few years later she appeared from the ether and killed a man, destroyed his legacy and showed how well that whole idea worked.
The thing women hate more than anything is being ignored.
But with crazy bitches that does have consequences, yeah.
Leaving evil alone inevitably creates more victims.
And most of these rags are filled with and march around like women.
Taylor Lorenz made a complete joke of herself, lost her biggest journalism job, yet is still going around writing articles for smaller rags and contributing to the same zeitgeist. Proving that nothing really gets accomplished by ignoring that, it just gives them the power to keep pumping garbage into the tide without anyone keeping tabs on it.
If truth is not protected, it is drowned in lies.
Be loud.
This is what they do rather than write gaming guides.
Kotaku can't die fast enough.
Seriously, stop opticscucking with petitions.