#gamergate — Public Fediverse posts

While the liberal gaming media was busy moralising, professing their victimhood and censoring discourse the burgeoning alt right welcomed the young gamer demographic with open arms.

The more I learn about #GamerGate the more surprised I am, but also it all starts to makes sense. That's what the terminally online "left" does.

A prescient text by Mark Fisher, written a year before #GamerGate.

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The [Vampires’ Castle] pious moralising has been a feature of a certain ‘left’ for many years – but, if one wasn’t a member of this particular church, its sermons could be avoided. Social media means that this is no longer the case, and there is little protection from the psychic pathologies propagated by these discourses.

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No-one is essentially anything. Sadly, the right act on this insight more effectively than the left does. The bourgeois-identitarian left knows how to propagate guilt and conduct a witch hunt, but it doesn’t know how to make converts. But that, after all, is not the point. The aim is not to popularise a leftist position, or to win people over to it, but to remain in a position of elite superiority, but now with class superiority redoubled by moral superiority too. ‘How dare you talk – it’s we who speak for those who suffer!’
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