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GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com)
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger," game developer Brianna Wu told CNN, adding "It's so imperative that people of my generation, native to technology, that we step up and make our voices known." An anonymous reader quotes CNN's report:
Wu says she is running for Congress in 2018. The co-founder and head of development at games firm Giant Spacekat hasn't announced which district she wants to represent in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent alerting her potential opponent while she prepares. Wu, a Massachusetts Democrat, told CNNMoney she's building up a team of advisers and figuring out campaign logistics before announcing her candidacy next month... She said the election of President-elect Donald Trump spurred her to consider entering politics...
Wu "says her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative."
Wu "says her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative."
That guy comes off as a real douche bro. If you don't agree with a candidates views then don't vote for them. Simple as that.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Only in America can a bright young boy grow up to be an angry, oppressed woman.
Not to counter -- to support.
The United States is in a mood to peg the meter all the way to the right.
It's something that has to be done.
The alt-right batshit crazy Evangelical Christian undereducated supremacist poor white trash are taking off their hoods and self-identifying for the three-letter authorities.
The face recognition and domestic terror databases are populating with data as never before.
The "Russian connection," was a clever move.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Here's a tip. Women respond better when you take their concerns seriously, rather than assuming they are just being angsty because clearly they have nothing to complain about.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Let me be absolutely clear about this: There was no review, no unethical behaviour, no sex for positive coverage or anything like that. It's a lie, there is no truth to it. They guy never even reviewed the game in question. You won't find the review or any archived copy of it, because it doesn't exist.
GamerGate started when her ex-boyfriend put up a blog post making various allegations about her infidelity, including the false claim about the review. From there it spiraled into a harassment campaign targeting women who either worked in the games industry or who spoke out about the whole debacle.
As a cover, the people behind GamerGate (4chan users) created an "ethics in journalism" angle. By claiming to be a consumer movement they thought they could give their harassment some kind of legitimacy, but it didn't really work. Check the Wikipedia article on GamerGate for a very detailed account.
Wu was one of the victims. She makes games for a living. They seem to be doing reasonably well, her studio is still going and there have been some special editions recently. She is also a trans woman and is outspoken on trans rights, among other things.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
That really shows just how profitable lying really is.
Lets recapitulate for those that did not follow gamergate back in 2014 what this person had to do with it:
Nothing, zero, zilch!
It should be clear to everyone who knows how to use google to dig up more than news sites that the claim that gamergate was anything like a hate movement is clearly wrong, it was always about finally getting _some_ standards in gaming journalism, really just "dont fuck the person you are reporting on" would be enough, maybe followed by "dont collude on a secret mailing list to release 14 articles about how your target group (gamers) are supposedly dead on the same freaking day" because that was just a tiny bit suspicious.
If you want to know more, dont bother with the wikipedia article as they are so horribly biased that even Jimmy Wales called them out on it. May have something to do with citing Gawker and their subsites as sources, the very sites that were in the cernter of that controversy. (Go cite "Mein Kampf" as a trustworthy source on the article about worldwide Jewery, I dare you).
Sadly the article on Gamergate on encyclopediadramatica is much more objective, despite being completely irreverent.
Anyway, so far so good, this was between Gamers, Journalists, Zoe Quinn (and her fake death threats) and Anita Sarkesian (and her fake death threats). No trace of Wu so far.
Thats because she was utterly unknown. Literally no one had ever heard of her or her game prior to her claiming to have been forced out of her house because of "death threats" (both lies, she never left home as the interview with a TV station and some google image search revealed later).
So assuming that gamergate really was hate movement, even then her claims would have been false: You can only hate what you know. She was not known in any form. No surprise here considering the quality of her "game" particularly with regards to graphics and character design. It was some tiny crappy indie title among tens of thousands in the play store.
And suddenly she is the center of attention and can reap her victimbux through patreon.
Really, if this does not convince people to how fake and twisted the SJW are, I dont know what will.
It's because there are many people in both groups. Yiannopoulos is a good example. And both groups have harassed Wu.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I'm going to fucking die laughing.