{"id":6059,"date":"2015-02-02T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:23:52","slug":"gamergate-will-get-somebody-killed-someday-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/02\/02\/gamergate-will-get-somebody-killed-someday-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"GamerGate will get somebody killed someday soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/internet.gawker.com\/the-psychopaths-of-gamergate-are-all-thats-left-and-th-1683271908\">This is horrifying<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGame developer Brianna Wu has been stalked, tormented, and harassed by GamerGate\u2014the amorphous reactionary movement centered around video game journalism\u2014for months now. But it&#8217;s never been as frightening as it was this weekend\u2014when she watched a terrifying video made by a deranged fanatic who claims he crashed his car on the way to her home. &#8220;I&#8217;m worried my husband and I are going to die,&#8221; she tells me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOn the one hand it&#8217;s tempting to laugh at a wanker like &#8220;Jace Connors&#8221;, who embody all the stereotypes of the Internet Hard Man, up to and including saying was in the navy SEALS but still has to drive his mom&#8217;s car, but it becomes less funny if you&#8217;re the intended victim of this wackadoodle. A bit like ISIS has done in the Middle East, GamerGate is providing angry losers with an &#8220;ideal&#8221; to harass, threaten and possibly kill for, a direction for their rage. Most of it is sound and fury signifying nothing, but there only needs to be one loon who&#8217;s slightly better organised than &#8220;Connors&#8221; to create a tragedy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd judging from this incident, it is not an idle worry. These people are tapping out of the same reservoir of rightwing anger that e.g. anti-abortion activists are drawing from. There are a lot of angry, confused young men who&#8217;ve latched on to GamerGate or similar causes in other parts of nerddom *cough* <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2015\/01\/14\/sad-puppies-still-not-house-trained\/\">Sad Puppies<\/a> *cough*, who are clearly comfortable with <a href=\"http:\/\/femfreq.tumblr.com\/post\/109319269825\/one-week-of-harassment-on-twitter\">harassing women on Twitter in the worst possible ways<\/a> and who are only one step away from continuing that harassment offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is horrifying: Game developer Brianna Wu has been stalked, tormented, and harassed by GamerGate\u2014the amorphous reactionary movement centered around video game journalism\u2014for months now. But it&#8217;s never been as frightening as it was this weekend\u2014when she watched a terrifying video made by a deranged fanatic who claims he crashed his car on the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,305,2135,90],"tags":[2185,2082],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-geekdom","category-videogaming-this-is-why-we","category-wingnuts","tag-briannawu","tag-gamergate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","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=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}