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What GamerGate should have taught us about the 'alt-right' (2016)

• raxxorrax 6y ago
  Maybe the similarities are that they just don't like certain insinuations some journalists seem pretty keen about. Compared to media storms I think the support was genuine and I don't think many people have learned a lesson here. There were actually minorities that said pretty loudly that people leveling accusations don't speak for them. You see these questionable alliance as an opposition towards certain media personalities. Personalities, not journalists. And there are still wounds that were inflicted. A test case is asking some authors involved about free speech for example. Or presumption of innocence. Very easy to get a rise out of some people with that. I think most would consider these fundamental to a democratic society. Trump didn't create totalitarian or racist policies. This was and is completely devoid of facts. Yes, he got some people a tax break that probably wouldn't have needed it. Yes, he has an law & order platform. The rest only happens in the heads of some people. Most of them are just misinformed by articles like this, which I consider to be mostly lies. To call it fascism just underlines the educational disadvantages of the writer.