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NotYourShield, where in an attempt to prove that Women and Minorities were not to be used as a shield were used as a shield but for GG itself, continuing the trend of treating their opinions as worth more than anyone else's.
I'll give early GG credit, they were right in that it was a Leftist movement even in how it acted.
Horseshit. It was just people from specific groups the woke claimed to speak for saying "no you don't speak for me". It was basically the only time sex and race were actually relevant in GG.
No, it was a bunch of blacks and women saying "you don't own us" while the rest of GG huddled behind them to deflect criticism about being racist/sexist because all the Leftists who made up the majority were still deep in Leftie political thinking. The same way the Right just so happened to find Candace Owens super smart and capable and totally not because she was a black woman they could use to say "look we aren't bigots!"
I was there nigger, and I was being downvoted for saying it then too, it was the same old worship of blacks and women as anyone on the Left. They were just on "our side" so it was treated as okay.
This whitewashing of history just tells me how much you guys were totally on board with it at the time that it didn't even occur to you it was happening. Especially if you think race/sex weren't always relevant to GG and how heavily it supported someone (such as the grifting Honeybadgers).
Which makes perfect sense, because early GG was filled with "one of the good ones" liberals who were determined to believe that this wasn't a left/right schism, and that it wasn't also happening anywhere outside of gaming.
There was a lot of gaslighting from controlled opposition within our ranks until the red pill suppositories started being handed out in bulk during the 2016 election. Most of our members were pretty naive before then.
My point exactly. Early GG was filled full with Lefties dancing on the edge because they were being pushed too far, but they were still Lefties who still believed in nearly all the same politics minus the one thing they knew was false, that being Video Games.
People forget that literally everytime GG was called a Right (or alt-right or Trump or whatever) movement that the majority of them were fucking aghast at the accusation (because Right wingers are evil!) and cited that one study saying it was mostly Lefties. Which culminated with the mods truly believing that banning anyone who also posted on T_D was a good idea to purge wrong thinkers.
I was there, and there were many good people who were putting in good efforts that deserve full commendation. But trying to wipe away that probably 80% of KIAPrime was pro-homo, pro-trans kids, and everything else we scream about now is pure whitewashing.
I still remember when everyone hated Black Man from The Force Awakens for being a clear diversity hire and all that jazz.
And then a few years later when he lamented that he was used like a diversity hire and not allowed to be a mega star supported by Disney he was suddenly "based black man calling them out!!"