Saluting Gamergate
An exchange concerning Gamergate seen over at VoxDay’s website, I thought I must share. A comment was posted by one AESchool supporting Antigamergate:
The discussion has gone well beyond [Anita Sarkeesian] and her agenda. It’s well out of her hands. But her work is done here…just look around at the media coverage. It’s not very kind to the GG crew. She won. The reason we know is that she could bow out right now and her agenda would continue on.
Prompting this comment from cailcorishev:
And in the TV era, the media coverage is all that matters, and since you’ve owned that, you’ve always won, right?
So what happens if that chain breaks? What happens if you take on a group of people and then find out they can’t be shamed by your media?
Prompting this counter from AESchool:
It’s a case of the bubble you live in just becoming a tiny bit bigger. That’s all.
If you don’t think culture is changed by media, ask yourself why the anti-gay contingent in the U.S. is so much smaller today. Ask yourself why blatant racism is no longer casually accepted today. Ask yourself why President Obama is president today. Ask yourself society is no longer based on patriarchy. Ask yourself America is much less stridently religious today.
The tiny gang behind GamerGate is so outmatched it’s not even worth trying to measure. What I’m finding interesting is watching the dynamic play out that motivates the GamerGate people to declare they are winning. That’s the interesting part.
However, please note that the Morlock admits something Brietbart used to say, and which I repeat: the Media is the enemy. The press and the entertainment industry is where we must carry the fight. We must supervert, if I may use that term, what they have subverted.
The above prompted this reply, adroit and clear, and the comment I wanted to emphasize and underscore was from Jack Amok:
It’s funny to read leftists like this AESchool troll. They think they are the inevitable victors, but they don’t realize how fragile the castle they’ve build really is. Their victories are those of bullies with time on their hands to harass and vandalize people who can’t spend all day defending themselves. Nobody respects them. Nobody likes them. Nobody thinks they ought to be making decisions or be given much of a voice on any substantive matter. They’re only allowed to do what they do because people with jobs and lives and responsibilities are unwilling to risk all that against the howling mob, so people duck their heads and try not to be noticed.
One crack that erodes their ability to siphon resources, and suddenly they don’t have the time to target and harass. One successful Black Knighting operation and suddenly they don’t have quite the number of vocal foot soldiers, as their side starts to ponder the costs of being visible, of being a target.
Because nobody likes them. Nobody respects them. Nobody – not even their own side – trusts them. And many hate them, despise them. They have squandered all their goodwill, they have no reserves of social capital to draw on if they suffer a reverse.
And so it’s all very fragile. One crack, one demonstration of weakness, of the inability to hurt someone who stands up to them, and it can all crumble. The whole, rotten, Potemkin façade, steam-rolled to dust in a frenzy of pissed-off retribution. Or, maybe just shrugged off and ignored as irrelevant to a society trying to feed itself and fight off the banditos and jihadis.
One crack that they can’t contain and they’re toast. Which is why they’re so afraid of #GamerGate. When you rule your empire as a Mafioso, you can’t afford to ever lose.
But sooner or later, everybody does lose. Nobody can win forever, and they’ve set themselves up to be slaughtered when they do lose.
My comment: bravo, Jack Amok, whoever you are.
You are more optimistic than I, since I believe no crack and no slaughter can deter them. They are true believers and fanatics, as devout in the spiritual realm as their twin brothers, the Jihadists, are in the physical realm, and as willing to ruin their careers as Jihadists are willing to end their lives. Both are willing to make shattering self sacrifices, any sacrifices, and ignite a bomb strapped to themselves, just in the hopes that the shrapnel with hurt some of women and children standing innocently nearby. They don’t want to live; they want you to die.
The wording of the Morlock has a distinctly triumphalist note. I am reminded of Baghdad Bob announcing the glorious victory of the glorious leader, Saddam, while American tanks are in the camera view in the background.
Speaking of background, after an extensive internet search, I found nothing but a continuous stream of Leftwing agitprop articles on the point, as repetitive as the chatter of talking magpies, so I cannot even discover the basic facts to my satisfaction. But I am an old hand at the newspaper business, and I know lies when I see them.
So AESchool is entirely right about the media coverage: The electronic world has been flooded with their agitation propaganda.
I am woefully ill informed about this particular kerfuffle, but I must say, that I declare my alliance, allegiance, fealty and sacred honor to the cause of Gamergate, whoever they are, merely on the point of how dishonorable, how utterly dishonest and despicable, their opposition is.
I look with eyes of envy at the gaming world, which had the manly fortitude to resist this influx of self-righteous would-be Grand Inquisitors, Thought Police, and Hall Monitors of the Established and Imperial Church of Leftwing Pervertarianism into their midst.
My world, the SFWA, caved with nary a word into the maw of these vapid moral troglodytes, and immediately abolished science fiction from the science fiction world, replacing it with dino-porn, race-baiting, wereseals, lynch mob slogans, homosex agitprop, blasphemy, christophobia, flag-trampling, and dreary lectures supporting their particular brand of mental and moral corruption.
The spark that started it all was some harlot copulating energetically with gaming-review writers in return for favorable reviews and publicity. When the corruption and harlotry was made public, the Leftwing media immediately closed ranks, as they did with President Clinton under similar circumstances, and, unable to defend the adultery-for-favors, merely accused all and sundry of witchcraft, consorting with demons, sodomy, causing storms, and blighting crops and cattle, poisoning wells, and kidnapping children to grind their bones into their bread in their impious and dark rites to glorify Moloch.
No, I am sorry, the Left is in favor of all of those things, and, like the Witches, think they can control the weather with politics. At the moment, it is only unborn children they murder for the greater glory of Moloch.
What they accused Gamergaters of was crimethink, other crimthinks, being mean, making death threats, and making rape threats to a freakshow castrato who dresses in woman’s clothing. There are sufficient suspicious circumstances to indicate the death threats were self-imposed, and anyone with a passing knowledge of modern journalism recalls how often Leftists have made such false threats in the past.
Odd indeed that after decades of demeaning, debasing, and undermining all standards of courtesy, decency, and politeness, the Left now objects to rude and uncouth behavior, and faints as readily as a Victorian matron. But at the same time, the Left has successfully horsewhipped all gentlemen and traces of gentle behavior out of the public square, so I do not know whom the fainting matrons expect will catch them when they faint, as opposed to stare, blank eyed, at the old crazy lady pretending to swoon, and now lying in the dirt.
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ADDENDUM:
Keep in mind, the antigamergate crowd are people who spend their time complaining about the lack of homosexual and transgendered characters one can play in first person shooter games, or complain about the fact that Princess Peach gets kidnapped by Donkey Kong.
Let us not assume a person making such a complaint is is sane.
He is not. He is impersonating what he knows or should know is an insane behavior, that is, he is attributing to an utterly innocent behavior (game writing) the most evil behavior he can imagine (racism, sexism, bigotry) and he is deliberately pretending to be insulted when no insult is intended nor imaginable.
Why he does this is at once both obscure and utterly clear. He clearly wants the unearned moral superiority of claiming to be a victim, despite that no one has victimized him. He cannot do this with a sane complaint, so he voices an insane complaint.
I assume that, at first, he knows it is insane, but that knowledge shrinks and dies as his conscience and his sanity dies. He pretends and pretends until his ability to tell the difference between pretend and reality. At that point, he had played make believe at being insane until the make believe becomes real.
So much is clear. What is obscure is why he adopts a set of beliefs which poison normal human relations, increase his misery, make him think the hands of all men are against him, render him unable to enjoy the games he likes.
Unless you believe in devils, I do not know how you can explain this behavior.