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Is Writergate a technical term or a reference to Watergate?
by ksynwa 1y ago
Is Writergate a technical term or a reference to Watergate?
- n42 1y agoin a sense it's a reference to Allocgate (a previous big breaking change to allocators in Zig), which was itself a reference to Watergate
- hsn915 1y ago[flagged]
- cornstalks 1y agoGamergate was not the first scandal (post-Watergate) to use -gate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_-gate_scandals_and_controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_-gate_scandals_and_c...
- hellerve 1y agoAs a data point: I can honestly say I’ve never heard of Gamergate before this comment, and I am a 31-year-old white male. I did read a book on Watergate when I was in my teens, though.
- moomin 1y agoGamerGate is well worth understanding. While some of the details are unique to the situation, it’s provided a template for right-wing radicalisation that’s been employed multiple times since. There’s also an entertaining “where are they now” aspect where some people have been almost forgotten and some are in the White House. KotakoInAction is still going and has (inevitably) morphed into a bunch of people complaining about the Lūgenpresse.
- stanac 1y agoThis comment smells like LLM output, you have said a lot, but I didn't understand anything.
- moomin 1y agoLet’s just say that I think it’s an important event and understanding how a guy harassing his ex-girlfriend became a formative moment in alt-right history is fascinating, but I really don’t want to get drawn into arguments with anyone who’s still drinking that particular kool-aid.
- kzrdude 1y agoI thought the series made by some journalist was very interesting, I don't remember her name, and I don't remember so much of gamergate. But I'm definitely not a core part of either group there..
- kzrdude 1y agoby now it's a well worn/used trope to make -gate names for any scandal. But the distance in time (and culture) to the original Watergate scandal is growing, so it seems less impactful now.
- simondotau 1y agoWeird that anyone is downvoting this, as it’s a precisely correct answer.
- lenkite 1y agoIt also deeply confuses international readers. Need to learn American history to to get an idea of what is being conveyed.
- hiccuphippo 1y agoEvem not knowing the history of Watergate, it's a meme now. A few months ago in a spanish speaking country there was a case known as "Rolexgate": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolexgate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolexgate
- geon 1y ago> the original Watergate scandal You mean the Watergate-gate?