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Is this some sort of gamergate leakage, that makes Gawker "left" because they are united with Kotaku, who gamergate hates, and social-justice fighers hate gamer
by gohrt 10y ago
Is this some sort of gamergate leakage, that makes Gawker "left" because they are united with Kotaku, who gamergate hates, and social-justice fighers hate gamergate, and social-justic fighters are "left", so Gawker is "left"?
- tedks 10y agoPretty much.
- iamdave 10y agoEdit: Lot of words, only to realize I may have misread your post entirely. Redacting.
- redthrowaway 10y agoGawker Media, along with Vice, Salon, Vox, Buzzfeed, HuffPo, etc., are left wing online publications. It has nothing to with GamerGate. It would take some impressive sophistry to claim they're not left wing, just as it would take quite some sophistry to claim Breitbart, Daily Wire, National Review, etc weren't right wing.
- tedks 10y agoWell, you could get a little less myopic, zoom out of the purely American perspective where left=Democrat and right=Republican, and see that none of the publications you named are left in any way. (Vox sometimes has leftists writing for it, but I wouldn't call it left as a whole.)
- cocotino 10y agoGawker defends progressive ideas and bashes conservative ideas. Of course in a world where you can get kicked out of your job as a CEO of Mozilla for defending the traditional family, it may look like there's no other option.
- Bartweiss 10y agoI mean, you can make the connection way easier via Jezebel, which is an unabashedly left-wing Gawker Media imprint.