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Gamergate had a lot to do with escalation. And it had to do with the worst behaviors we see on all sides on the internet. There's a temptation to reduce it down to nihilistic white guys who live loser lives battling with radical man-hating feminists because that happened. . Honor, I'm going to chip...

I'm so sorry, bach.

My own small community was reeling several years ago after a mass shooting took 8 lives. I can barely imagine a small community dealing with this level of loss.

honor,

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I will return the favor, but since I'm going back to work tomorrow, it may take a bit longer. I want to think about it and not rush. I just didn't want you to think I was ignoring you after I asked for your insight and you so kindly provided it.

I think the investigation of how 4chan-ish gamer behavior interacts with other behaviors is both symptomatic as well as partially causal, and your OP focuses on a very narrow and single aspect of this. It's not about just lumping in all parties to be equitable. It's that the approach of focusing on...

As I said, I think we're ____. I read your OP and wonder how apparent the blame seeking nature of this kind of analysis fails to be apparent to people I know are intelligent...yet I also realize there is a certain consistent sense of rightness that isn't new so it's unsurprising if also unlikely to...

Beastie, to be explicit I think your OP is representative of what is undermining democracy. It's one of many fundamental way of thinking that are incompatible with pluralism. Believe me, honor, I understood what you meant quite well. Your stance has been pretty clear lately. Any attempt to analyze ...

I don't know how future historians will ultimately untangle the threads that all lead back to our current democratic crisis. Does it also reveal itself in the Bush v. Gore decision and subsequent early years of the Bush administration as political opposition became a moral cause of many? The Iraq w...

Old Man Murray, Gamergate, Bannon, Trump and the end of Democracy Off and on for the past six months or so I’ve been trying to figure out gamergate in general, and its influence on specific trends in the US. It’s been challenging, to say the least, because gamergate is so polarized that I’m never su...

I have noticed that these events of late are taking down some big names in Hollywood, but it had no affect on taking down an admitted sexual predator named Trump. And the same right wing media that minimized and normalized Trumps' statements have been screeching the loudest about Hollywood predators.

A Christmas Carol and the conversation with Scrooge: “Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge. “Plenty of prisons,” said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. “And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?” “They are. Still,” returned the gentleman, “I wish I could say...