{"id":5927,"date":"2014-12-16T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2014-12-16T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:01:55","slug":"metalgate-youre-joking-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/12\/16\/metalgate-youre-joking-right\/","title":{"rendered":"#MetalGate: you&#8217;re joking, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI saw some brief references to #MetalGate on Twitter before the weekend and assumed it was GamersGate loons trying to stir shit. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@turnoffthenews\/the-brief-and-silly-history-of-metalgate-30e2a9b8c9c8\">I was right<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSimilar to how \u201c#Gamergate\u201d was coined by Adam Baldwin while linking to videos about Zoe Quinn\u2019s sex life, then famously retconned to actually be about ethics in journalism, the origins of #Metalgate seem to be unimportant. #Gamergate has established a template. Throw a hash in front of a word and a \u201c-gate\u201d behind it, and you send out a veritable Bat-Signal to thousands of angry people on the internet: \u201cSocial Justice Warriors are doing\u2026 something. We may not be clear on what they\u2019re actually saying or doing, but they must be stopped.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nProof once more, if any was needed, that GamersGate is just another rightwing kulturclash project, just another attempt by &#8220;South Park Republicans&#8221; and professional culture warriors to seem even vaguely relevant and use the fears and prejudices of unthinking white men to get some sort of rightwing cultural backlash going, gain some foothold in youth culture. Yes, it&#8217;s all sound and fury and rape threats that accomplishes nothing except the harassment of more women but hey, it beats working for a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw some brief references to #MetalGate on Twitter before the weekend and assumed it was GamersGate loons trying to stir shit. I was right: Similar to how \u201c#Gamergate\u201d was coined by Adam Baldwin while linking to videos about Zoe Quinn\u2019s sex life, then famously retconned to actually be about ethics in journalism, the origins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}