Wow! I'd known for a few years that the portrayal of #Gamergate
as right-wing was an oversimplification, but not until reading this did
I realize just how wrong it is.
http://www.gameobjective.com/2016/11/21/no-gamergate-is-not-right-wing/
This is a timely discovery as just the other day I made a sign for an anti-occupation demonstration on which I put the GG logo, linking the issues with the slogans "Zionism, this Jew is #NotYourShield" and "NO to authoritarian identity politics!"
One small point: the author writes that "Gamergate, which adores gaming culture and the consumption of gaming products, is in direct conflict" with an anti-capitalist philosophy. I think that only applies to a certain puritanical variety of anti-capitalism. I'm a socialist and I don't see any contradiction between that and gaming (although it isn't my main fandom -- I'm mostly into literary sf).
http://www.gameobjective.com/2016/11/21/no-gamergate-is-not-right-wing/
This is a timely discovery as just the other day I made a sign for an anti-occupation demonstration on which I put the GG logo, linking the issues with the slogans "Zionism, this Jew is #NotYourShield" and "NO to authoritarian identity politics!"
One small point: the author writes that "Gamergate, which adores gaming culture and the consumption of gaming products, is in direct conflict" with an anti-capitalist philosophy. I think that only applies to a certain puritanical variety of anti-capitalism. I'm a socialist and I don't see any contradiction between that and gaming (although it isn't my main fandom -- I'm mostly into literary sf).
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