I don’t understand what all the outrage was about.
I genuinely believe gamergate was and is an online movement that continues to beg for more serious analysis. It wasn’t a harbinger of Trump politics like some pundits think, actually it was a culmination of half a decade of continuous culture war waged by Rush Limbaugh types during the Obama years, and eventually evolved into a the more coherent belief of “politics is downstream from culture” by Andrew Breitbart. I said this before but this “culture war” was waged on several fronts, from movies, to sci-fi books to fucking MtG. Breitbart the magazine under Bannon was just waiting for the right movement to latch itself onto and the most explosive one was GG.
The book “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency” goes into this pretty well, and echoes your exact sentiment. Bannon had been lurking around “gamer culture” since the early World of Warcraft days.
I genuinely believe gamergate was and is an online movement that continues to beg for more serious analysis. It wasn’t a harbinger of Trump politics like some pundits think, actually it was a culmination of half a decade of continuous culture war waged by Rush Limbaugh types during the Obama years, and eventually evolved into a the more coherent belief of “politics is downstream from culture” by Andrew Breitbart. I said this before but this “culture war” was waged on several fronts, from movies, to sci-fi books to fucking MtG. Breitbart the magazine under Bannon was just waiting for the right movement to latch itself onto and the most explosive one was GG.
The book “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency” goes into this pretty well, and echoes your exact sentiment. Bannon had been lurking around “gamer culture” since the early World of Warcraft days.