I remember the heady post 9/11 days when Bush was in full power, we had freedom fries, the Dixie Chicks were banned, and there was nary a person who thought it was a bad idea to get into Iraq (and torture and mass financial fraud).

I went to a conservative college (which helped turn me liberal) and 8 years of Bush…

That would be considered mansplaining by the SJW’s now.

You’ve missed the point of my argument.

While Jamie Walton really did jump the gun, if there’s any truth to her clearly stating that she told you NOT to quote her, you really need to take her quote down from the article and offer an apology, at least on the article itself. Anyone with brains knows this mistake doesn’t mean the complete corruption of all…

To anyone wanting to defend Alison, take a look at this before to see if yhis is really the hill you’re going to die on. http://imgur.com/a/uGLHz

What Klepek quoted was literally from the email where she stated she had no desire to be involved. He can obviously write about her public remarks, but he quoted her from private conversation, a private conversation in which she stated her desire to be left alone.

Dunno, but it’s stuff like that that really makes me glad I’m a part of the group that this guy is so against. When you’re this slimy to get a quote, and don’t even apologize or pull it from your article, and then proceed to wax poetically in her favor “ALAS I DO NOT KNOW HOW THY FAIR MAIDEN IS INVOLVED IN THIS”,…

What the shit!?

Yeah, Klepek is a dirtbag. In response to this woman who he clearly seems to admire for doing her good work?

“I haven’t read the essay, but I’m going to formulate an opinion based on what I presume I would think had I actually read it!”

That was from Jamie Walton’s Twitter, btw.

Gawker just can’t let it go because they tried to take the nerds on and it cost them tens millions of dollars and half their advertisers.

I think we’re in fact referring to two different groups of people.

Yeah. As I recall much of why the Zoe stuff became so focused on her was the fact that Nathan and Kotaku went silent running on the issue and didn’t talk about it while she started responding sarcastically to those who tweeted her, stocking the anger and controversy.

You know, about 90% of this shit could be avoided if people would quit being such antagonizing assholes on social media. Alison Rapp was being a straight up douchebag to fans of the company, and that was really uncalled for. The grand majority of these “gamergate related” issues are because someone said something…

But then the narrative of persecution would be damaged. The whole point is to push a specific narrative of the “culture war” and if they admit that most of the bad things they report on are fringe people not ACTUALLY associated with the groups they’re vilifying then the narrative goes out the window.

Thats why I stay out of this crap. Anyone who actually want to have an actual discussion that isn’t inflammatory quickly has their comments buried under the louder angrier ones.

The easy answer is GamerGate, the all-too-familiar amorphous group of gamers who organized in summer 2014 after game designer Zoe Quinn’s sex life was made public and eventually ended up at “ethics in games journalism.”

This shit is bad for all sides of the argument and all people involved. I’m strongly agaisnt removal of content or altering content during localizations. I bought Fire Emblem Fates, but I canceled my Bravely Second preorder (mostly for altered endings and editing the art book).