That's not the chronology that I got on my first read of the article.
Going back to read it again
I'm old enough to remember the original Gamergate. In fact, I was part of it — not that I knew it at the time.
Of course, this was just the latest front in a long-running culture war that had been raging in Hollywood and academia for years. But nobody was there to tell me that. I was in high school, and all I knew was that there were a bunch of annoying people calling me sexist, racist, and every slur in the book just because I wanted my entertainment to be left alone.
Oddly enough, I find myself looking back in melancholy rather than rage at the rampant abuse. What was it all for? I suppose I am a bit burnt out, having fought this fight for years.
I don't detect any reformed leftist arc.
If he was not an active participant in OG Gamergate, he was at least GG-sympathetic in the short years thereafter.
That's why he admitted in the article - he saw it but he didn't understand it, but now that he's older he sees why these games are so fucking bad.
That's not the chronology that I got on my first read of the article.
Going back to read it again
I don't detect any reformed leftist arc.
If he was not an active participant in OG Gamergate, he was at least GG-sympathetic in the short years thereafter.