Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate

stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to politics @lemmy.world – 106 points – Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate
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The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.

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Misgony.

From a high level.

  • Woman creates a video game about her personal struggles with depression.

  • Got favorable reviews, some from notable game reviewers.

  • Ex-boyfriend of woman posts a blog post and releases cherry picked chat logs alleging notable reviewer gave her a positive review due to sexual favors/relationship between the woman and reviewer.

  • Notable reviewer never reviewed her game.

  • Toxic gamer boys got in a huff that a woman was promoted due to sexual favors. They cried "ethics in video game reviews" together.

  • Toxicness spreads to other women in the video game industry because of the misgony.

  • Gamergate being full of easily manipulated individuals that don't feel like they belong or are heard are now organized.

  • Group is infiltrated by people that have a malicious intent to incite and recruit for far right extremeist movements.

The details are interesting, but in the end it's drama caused by frail male egos that led to a ton of misgony.

Of note here is Steve Bannon, who owned several WOW gold farming operations at one point, specifically targeted gamergate as a recruitment arm for the alt right.

Gamergate was used directly by the Trump campaign to unify disenfranchised young men to vote for Trump. The numbers were so close in the 3 swing states when he won in 2016, a total of only 40k votes, you can say quite honestly that it won him that election.

I missed this entire thing unfold.