What a GamerGate supporter thinks GamerGate is.

[kane_magus]

Here (in a comment on one of grrm's posts that mentions GamerGate) is what one apparent GamerGate supporter thinks GamerGate is.

In case it gets deleted, I will copy/paste the comment here:

Gamergate
George, I think you've let the SJW media color your impressions of Gamergate. Gamergate has nothing to do with threats or hatespeech. Gamergate is a consumer revolt concerned with opposing corruption in gaming journalism, defending game developers from SJW censors like Sarkeesian, and combating attempts to malign the Gamer identity and force Political Correctness and Cultural Marxism on gamers. Remember when SJWs tried to censor Game of Thrones over the 'rape' scene last season? That's exactly what's going on with games. They're trying to destroy creative freedom and fundamentally change video games to suit their far-left agenda.

Wow... just... ....just wow. If they actually, honestly believe that... wow. GamerGate "has nothing to do with threats or hatespeech"? Really? Wow. Oh wait, I forgot, all that shit is really just a "false flag" campaign trying to make GamerGate look bad. *eye roll*

No, I don't think Mr. Martin was at all incorrect in his impressions of what GamerGate actually is like. Either the above person is being disingenuous, or they are one of the naive fools who I feel got duped into following what I feel was an already sunken ship from the get go. Other people in the comments under there who are also trying to defend GamerGate are comparing the condemnation of Sad Puppies to the (supposedly unwarranted, according to them) condemnation of GamerGate. I call bullshit on the whole thing. I think both groups (assuming they aren't actually one and the same, or at least so close that the distinctions matter little) are full of shit, any way you look at it.

Also, anyone and everyone who uses the term "SJW" in an attempt to be taken seriously immediately and automatically loses whatever argument they were trying to make, as far as I am concerned.

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Interestingly, I notice that 4chan itself is on gamergate.me's Boycott List (http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Boycott_List), but that's because moot got sick of all the GamerGate bullshit clogging 4chan and started deleting everything. He eventually left 4chan altogether (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/14/8214713/gamergate-scandal-convinced-4chan-founder-moot-to-leave-the-site) because of both GamerGate and the celebrity photo hack thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_photo_hack) which also originated on 4chan. Most of the 4chan asshats who started GamerGate had already migrated to 8chan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan) by then anyway, though.