Over the past week, a surge of targeted hateful and violent posts on fringe and mainstream platforms have ignited what some on the far-right are calling “GamerGate 2.0,” which, like its predecessor, includes virulent antisemitism, misogyny, racism, and calls for violence.
  • MasterNerd@lemm.ee
    12·
    6 months ago

    We’ve come full circle and must now call them the snowflakes like they always were

    • squirrelOPMEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, it’s horrible, though - to be a little bit optimistic - I think it can also be seen as a sign that the capital-G Gamers and misogynerds have noticed that they are outnumbered and have to make a shitshow like this in order to have any relevancy.

      • TGhost [She/Her]
        4·
        6 months ago

        I can’t be optimistic theses times…

        For us its only bullsshit h24 all around us.

        I really can’t see good news 🙃

        Sry…

        • squirrelOPMEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          TBH I understand you perfectly. There are too many bad news these days, but - for whatever it is worth - I attempt to see the good in the bad, even though I am not all that convinced myself most of the time.

          • TGhost [She/Her]
            2·
            6 months ago

            I swear im not wired, or I didn’t got my account of shit, I guess.

            You are brave.
            Love that,

            • squirrelOPMEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Thank you for the kind words, but I don’t think I am particularly brave. The main difference between you and me may be that I was around for GamerGate 1.0 and I recognize some of the differences between then and now. While GamerGate 2.0 is - without doubt - dangerous and terrifying, it is far less chaotic than 1.0 and that makes is somewhat easier for me to deal with it.