• exohuman@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    It’s all the anti-woke rhetoric the right wing places have been spouting lately. He is just a symptom of a larger national problem. More people like him will be cropping up that take those words to heart. We need an end to the culture war nonsense.

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      1 year ago

      Gaming has had a problem long before the current anti-woke culture war. This started way back with GamerGate.

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        1 year ago

        You can trace a direct line from GamerGate through to Brexit, Trump becoming US president, and the formation of the “alt-right”, “incel” and “anti-woke” movements. GamerGate was essentially the testing grounds.