djchump wrote:One of the people interviewed/quoted was a reformed gamergater - Thom something or other iirc. Have a read of his POV, but it pretty much amounts to “I was a kid, fell into the echo chamber and it seemed to make sense, then I grew up a bit and used my head”.RedDave2 wrote:I don't know, an article that is claiming to explain all these terrible people without some type of input from that side seems inherently flawed. You don't have to justify both sides to present their views. It might help to point out why one side is so flawed. I'd also be very curious how the generate gang perceive themselves. ...
As with a lot of these things though, the deeper down the rabbit hole you get sucked, the less of an “ok person” you become.RedDave2 wrote:Fair point so. I'd imagine a lot of the people who got into it would have similar stories - mostly ok people who got caught up in it.
djchump wrote:As with a lot of these things though, the deeper down the rabbit hole you get sucked, the less of an “ok person” you become.RedDave2 wrote:Fair point so. I'd imagine a lot of the people who got into it would have similar stories - mostly ok people who got caught up in it.
Tempy wrote:I’ve not read anything by anyone in the article but I have listened to it be talked about on the H3H3 podcast with Boogie, and everyone in the article seems unreasonable.
You see, I'm not so cynical. I think as a species we do tend to realise that working collectively is a good thing, everything we see around us or use on a daily basis would've been impossible if we didn't. Of course we fear the outsider and still divide ourselves in nations and subgroups but in general we aren't that bad.RedDave2 wrote:I suppose that's human nature. We seem to work so hard against working together even though it leads to the best results. As a species we sub divide ourselves by so many things - gender, politics, ideology, football club, skin tone, clothing - crazy what we could achieve if we weren't always screwing the other over.djchump wrote:As with a lot of these things though, the deeper down the rabbit hole you get sucked, the less of an “ok person” you become.RedDave2 wrote:Fair point so. I'd imagine a lot of the people who got into it would have similar stories - mostly ok people who got caught up in it.
Tempy wrote:Pretty great video on Incels from ya gal Contra
Brooks wrote:There's a troubling statement up in there about shitty attention being preferable to absolutely no attention. I'm troubled by it.
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