Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate
Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate
The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
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I watched whatever Gamergate was erupt on that other site.
I still have no idea what Gamergate is or was. At the time I had no idea what was satire, what was real, what was under Poes law.
I know it happened. I know I was present for it. I do not understand it.
Misgony.
From a high level.
- Woman creates a video game about her personal struggles with depression.
- Got favorable reviews, some from notable game reviewers.
- Ex-boyfriend of woman posts a blog post and releases cherry picked chat logs alleging notable reviewer gave her a positive review due to sexual favors/relationship between the woman and reviewer.
- Notable reviewer never reviewed her game.
- Toxic gamer boys got in a huff that a woman was promoted due to sexual favors. They cried "ethics in video game reviews" together.
- Toxicness spreads to other women in the video game industry because of the misgony.
- Gamergate being full of easily manipulated individuals that don't feel like they belong or are heard are now organized.
- Group is infiltrated by people that have a malicious intent to incite and recruit for far right extremeist movements.
The details are interesting, but in the end it's drama caused by frail male egos that led to a ton of misgony.
Of note here is Steve Bannon, who owned several WOW gold farming operations at one point, specifically targeted gamergate as a recruitment arm for the alt right.
Gamergate was used directly by the Trump campaign to unify disenfranchised young men to vote for Trump. The numbers were so close in the 3 swing states when he won in 2016, a total of only 40k votes, you can say quite honestly that it won him that election.
I missed this entire thing unfold.
I got you, fam.
Story: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/04/28/gamergate/
The Zoe Post: https://thezoepost.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/tldr/
If you wanna see what the GG rubes are doing now, just swing by the subreddit KotakuInAction at any point.
Thanks. I thought this was recent given the Pelosi attack, but it was a long time ago, and this was just the flip point for him.