Hannah Wallen on Social Justice War Games
An analysis of Gamergate, described in terms of the economics of social ladder climbing.
Short answer: the shrieking of the pseudo-feminists and pseudo-Marxists and pseudo-whinebabies is due to an attempt by the journalists and other social justice warriors, nerds high on the social ladder, to gain or retain their alleged social pecking order rank by demeaning the gamer nerds, accusing them of witchcraft, and throwing them to the witchhunters.
Here is the link.
http://honeybadgerbrigade.com/2014/09/07/gamergate-journalism-as-a-social-justice-war-game/
Her words:
The only people who are equipped to fight off that rushing tide of manipulation and control are those for whom potential social rejection doesn’t constitute a threat.
That, gamers, is why gamergate is not about any one of the damseling drama queens receiving the coverage in gaming media that is now spilling over into other news sources. It not about the media themselves, either, or the companies supporting the industry.
It’s about us.
We’re not under attack because we owe anyone anything we have refused to give, or because we’ve done anything we shouldn’t have done. We’re under attack because we’re one of the last shields that human individuality in western society has.
It’s absolutely vital that gamers continue to reject the shaming and demands being launched at us by elitist social engineers in journalism. We’re the line they can’t be allowed to cross, the last bastion of intellectual freedom. Out of everyone, we have the one factor that can stop them from owning the social landscape of the western world. Out of everyone, we have the power of immunity to their weapon of choice. We have the ability to turn that very same weapon around and use it against them by not only refusing to adopt their narrative, but making our rejection of it hurt them financially.
This is how we’re going to hold the line and begin pushing back. It’s going to be ridiculously ugly. The beast that is social justice elitism is not going to go peacefully, nor is it going to change its tactics. We’re going to see that monstrous, flailing attempt to shame us into compliance continue. We’re going to see the accusations and whining, damseling and demonization all accelerate as the elites try to smash the resistance without understanding why it exists. And then hopefully we’ll see like-minded individuals joining the ranks of resistance as they realize they don’t have to be adopt the victim narrative to be part of a community. If we can achieve just that one thing by standing our ground and defending our territory, we can push that bullying force out, take our community back, and get back to gaming in peace.
My comment: I post the link not because I have any opinion about gamergate. I have never heard of gamergate before now.
But from the article, it just sounds like the corruption of the gaming community by the same mindset and for the same reason as the SFWA got corrupted and the Hugos and Nebulas got corrupted, and ending up a stinking mess of lice-infested fly-specked carrion.
For those of you who missed it, the point of no return for SFWA was when two fine and honest science fiction writers were fed to the mouth of the brass idol of political correctness for calling a lady editor ‘a lady’, and appearing in a science fiction magazine whose cover art looked exactly the same as every other science fiction cover art of every other science fiction magazine since the 1930s: namely, a busty warrior maiden in a chainmail bikini is slaying a monster.
This was regarded as so offensive and hate-filled that only the immediate firing of all involved could sate the selfrighteousness of the screaming she-Morlocks.
I can understand a Christian woman who favors modesty frowning at a cheesecake cleavage picture, but the moral superiority of clans of creatures who routinely support, affirm and applaud homosex and abortion eludes comprehension.
To have feminists and lefty nutbags shriek like steamwhistles over SF cheesecake is like hearing that the satanist orgy-goers rather than the Puritans had pinned the scarlet letter on Hester Prynne.
I assume, sight unseen, the herfluffle surrounding the gaming community was a similar sort of exercise in self righteous hypocrisy.
But I do not post this link because I have an opinion on the matter one way or the other.
No, I post the link because the analysis of the freedom that comes from realizing the social control mechanism of the social cliques has no power over any boy who becomes a man, or any girl who decides to be a woman.
By that I mean, putting your self esteem in the hands of ignorant and shallow strangers, enemies, and selfish oafs who imagine themselves to be the leaders and opinionmakers of the social hierarchy is a foolish proposition. They are neither in a position to judge you, nor are their judgements based on anything logical. One gains social approval by acting immorally, not morally. You get applause for telling drunks that teetotalers are sticks-in-the-mud. You get petted by the king for eating a toad and kissing his toe. And these are not even kings: the social leaders have no power aside from what their own self opinion deliriously awards or seems to award them.
Who takes these arrogant ignoramuses seriously? Have they ever harvested crops, built a tower or an automobile engine, killed a foe in combat, written a scholarly monograph, fed the poor, healed the sick?
In Stoic terms, the same message would be expressed as a contempt for fame or the reputation in the eyes of man unworthy to have an opinion.
In Christian terms, the same message would be worded in terms of seeking the approval of heaven, not the applause of Earth.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
