Gamergate convinced an anti-sex trafficking org to join crusade against NoA employee

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notch said that he was always a part of gg, he was just scared to say so

Like, early days of GG where people thought it was legit about ethics in journalism? There's still leftovers from that time like American Mcgee who seem oblivious to the whole harassment thing.
 
OK things are getting real ugly in this thread, lemme walk out.
You added nothing to this discussion and were overall, boring.

I really hate when threads like this show up and I feel like I have to either defend gamergate, or defend someone who defends the cultural sexualiztion of 13 year olds in Japan and thinks adult/child consent laws should be relaxed

Everything gets so hostile.
I don't see why you would do that.
 
I still don't understand what gamergate is. Is it worth reading up on, or should I just continue being ignorant?
I honestly feel like I've wasted too much of my life rubbernecking these garbage people doing shitty things.
 
I don't get your point tbh. So you're saying we shouldn't handle that topic at all in academia be it sociology,psychology or medicine? That's a dangerous approach for a society.

I'm not sure how you got to that point but
I'm saying that it's my gut reaction.
I'm not thinking about someone sitting at home wanking to some hentai.
I'm not thinking about a research institution.


I'm thinking trafficking and those that actually do these things to other people. So yeah death, being locked up or chemical enforcements for these people. Or do you actually think school when you hear paedophile?
 
Because when you hear child porn I hear



Now I'm not saying that's her but gut reaction is, at least to me and paedophiles, to lock them up somewhere. If it's chemical castration so that will never do anything? death sentence? a gun with one bullet? I don't really care, just make them not child molesters and keep them far away from anything I love.

First, being pedophile and being a rapist are still different things, second there is a difference between the stance on child porn (and I would assume this is talking more about manga stuff, not real rape videos of actual human beings) and being pedophile. One is a horrible sexual orientation and I fel bad for anyone who is pedophile, because it basically comes down to suppressing your sexual desires your whole life or being a criminal. One is a criminal act that should justly be punished and that often but not exclusively gets commited by pedophile persons. But one that also does not get commited by all pedophile persons. Lastly, the stance on child porn, or at least the variant where no person was harmed personally (i.e. animations, writing, comics, paintings) is a personal political opinion that shouldn't have an influence on a job.

Even if you associate negative feelings with a term (in this case pedophilia or child porn) you should always stay rational, because you will almost assuredly act unfairly if you don't. Do you feel someone like Rapp, who allegedly is of the opinion certain types of child pornography in other societies should not be criminalised, cannot do her job properly anymore, independent of what it is, and should be gravely punished? Do you feel that someone who is pedophile but never has acted on it and continues to fight his sex drive should be punished for who he is? Independent of the fact that he is a law-abiding person? And just to make this clear: Obviously, pedophile persons should not work at schools, kindergardens or similar work places. But let's say a pedophile worked in Nintendo marketing (again, not claiming Rapp is one, there is absolutely NO indication she is!), I could not care less. And neither should you.
 
I honestly feel like I've wasted too much of my life rubbernecking these garbage people doing shitty things.

I only had a vague idea before this moment. I sensed it was something I should ignore, and now I've confirmed that just by skimming this one. Since it took about 4 seconds to discover how knee jerk and moronic this is, I'm assuming also that it would be a complete waste of time to engage any of them. I won't even test that one.
 
Controversy breeds controversy. Going online and shouting your controversial opinions while flying your company flag isn't going to get you places in life.
It's not controversial to shit on gamergate. Blizzard had a speech about it on their BlizzCon. Tim Schafer made jokes about them at the GDC awards. Plenty of other MALE gaming celebs and devs have been publicly against the hate movement. None of them were harassed to the point that any woman gets, because gamergate picks out the weaker targets.

Also, nice bit of victim blaming.
 
First, being pedophile and being a rapist are still different things, second there is a difference between the stance on child porn (and I would assume this is talking more about manga stuff, not real rape videos of actual human beings) and being pedophile. One is a horrible sexual orientation and I fel bad for anyone who is pedophile, because it basically comes down to suppressing your sexual desires your whole life or being a criminal. One is a criminal act that should justly be punished and that often but not exclusively gets commited by pedophile persons. But one that also does not get commited by all pedophile persons. Lastly, the stance on child porn, or at least the variant where no person was harmed personally (i.e. animations, writing, comics, paintings) is a personal political opinion that shouldn't have an influence on a job.

Even if you associate negative feelings with a term (in this case pedophilia or child porn) you should always stay rational, because you will almost assuredly act unfairly if you don't. Do you feel someone like Rapp, who allegedly is of the opinion certain types of child pornography in other societies should not be criminalised, cannot do her job properly anymore, independent of what it is, and should be gravely punished? Do you feel that someone who is pedophile but never has acted on it and continues to fight his sex drive should be punished for who he is? Independent of the fact that he is a law-abiding person? And just to make this clear: Obviously, pedophile persons should not work at schools, kindergardens or similar work places. But let's say a pedophile worked in Nintendo marketing (again, not claiming Rapp is one, there is absolutely NO indication she is!), I could not care less. And neither should you.

yeah no.
 
I only had a vague idea before this moment. I sensed it was something I should ignore, and now I've confirmed that just by skimming this one. Since it took about 4 seconds to discover how knee jerk and moronic this is, I'm assuming also that it would be a complete waste of time to engage any of them. I won't even test that one.

You are very wise. I spoke to Alisons defense on twitter and its not stop harassment from people I have never even heard of before. They have their script they stick to amazingly well too. Talk about the death threats, harassment etc. and they quickly try to turn it around. "Only death threats I ever got were from anti gamergate when I revealed my moderate viewpoint." As if anything in GG is moderate
 
The grandest of grand ironies is that, if this is accurate, her work can be read as being at least theoretically defensive of the idea that there are issues with the West being imperialistic about Japanese media, specifically illustrated pornography featuring young looking characters, at least to the tune of "there's hypocrisy here in how Japanese media is specifically treated"

You know

the entire thing these guys supposedly give a shit about
GG has absolutely no sense of self awareness, in like anyway shape or form, it's almost scientifically fascinating and if you've ever met anyone irl who supports the movement they're the same way, completely lacking in social skills/social awareness yet somehow everyone else, especially the opposite gender, is the issue.
 
Every time I think I understand what GG is all about, they do something so baffling that I'm back to square one again. I give up, I'll never understand what is it they want exactly.
 
Who even wants to be a games journalist at this point? I mean, it seems all that happens is they constantly get shit on.

Feel bad for these people. This whole GG thing is really sad.
 
There are queer, black, and female-identifying people who associate themselves with gamer gate or stand for some of the proposed ideals. Why do so many assume that it's only angry men? Like, I totally fell out of trying to find in-depth info since Boogie made his "i am not a Bigot vid" due to conflicting information, but even then it was quite diverse.

And before anyone implies otherwise, no I am not condoning them.
Yeah that's like saying the Republican Party is full of minorities and diversity. It's still clearly catering to the straight, white male agenda. You really don't need to try and paint some picture of diversity in gamergate. That's far more disingenuous than just saying its the straight white gamer boys club, which it largely is.
 

So, if someone is doing good work at Nintendo marketing, has no contact to children in this capacity and has always been a law abiding person you claim the person should be fired for his sexual orientation and nothing else? How is that just?
 
I don't know if I was decived by those gamergate people. I stumbled in a bit of her essay about Japanese culture and stuff. The bit about kids and sex was painfull to read.
If somebody has a copy of what she really wrote, please post it.
 
I'm not sure how you got to that point but
I'm saying that it's my gut reaction.
I'm not thinking about someone sitting at home wanking to some hentai.
I'm not thinking about a research institution.


I'm thinking trafficking and those that actually do these things to other people. So yeah death, being locked up or chemical enforcements for these people. Or do you actually think school when you hear paedophile?

Never mind I thought your response was in regards to the topic of ther paper specifically.

It's late...
 
Who even wants to be a games journalist at this point? I mean, it seems all that happens is they constantly get shit on.

Feel bad for these people. This whole GG thing is really sad.

The worst part is most of the people they target aren't even journalists. They don't even try to keep up the charade of concern for journalistic ethics.

Yeah that's like saying the Republican Party is full of minorities and diversity. It's still clearly catering to the straight, white male agenda. You really don't need to try and paint some picture of diversity in gamergate. That's far more disingenuous than just saying its the straight white gamer boys club, which it largely is.

I've talked to some of the minorities who threw in with GG and it really is like talking to a brick wall.
 
So, if someone is doing good work at Nintendo marketing, has no contact to children in this capacity and has always been a law abiding person you claim the person should be fired for his sexual orientation and nothing else? How is that just?
I'm really disturbed at you trying to classify it as a sexual orientation. It's a mental illness through and through and should not be framed as anything but.
 
I'm really disturbed at you trying to classify it as a sexual orientation. It's a mental illness through and through and should not be framed as anything but.
Alright, lets say it's a mental illness. They still should be treated as a criminal? You treat someone who's ill, you don't condemn them.
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Not to mention "mental illness" is highly subjective. Being rude could be a mental illness. And there's a whole pandora's box of things that have been classified as mental illness in the past that are now not. I'm not saying a paraphilia like pedophilia is one of those, but if you're going to argue semantics, you should be prepared to substantiate what you say.
 
If it's someone attracted to kids that hasn't acted on it, it isn't legally grounds for termination. If it's a child molester, well they should be in jail, much less have a job.
I agree, but I was referring to the idea (or how I interpreted that post) that an openly admitted pedophile should have any position in marketing and whatnot.
 
I don't know if I was decived by those gamergate people. I stumbled in a bit of her essay about Japanese culture and stuff. The bit about kids and sex was painfull to read.
If somebody has a copy of what she really wrote, please post it.
I still think what she has written on it in academia has as much bearing on her job as that depression game developer's sex life has to her job (i.e. none). I feel this digging in her academic life, unrelated to her current position is not helpful nor constructive. If it's not easily found than it isn't even a publication, but just a seminary work during her academic education. From my perspective, this is private life. If someone were to approach me to hand out the seminary work of one of my students, I would absolutely reject that. As should the professor / scientific associate where she made her work.
 
Every time I think I understand what GG is all about, they do something so baffling that I'm back to square one again. I give up, I'll never understand what is it they want exactly.
Because they're idiots, what they desire is to keep women out. And they do it in the most unintelligent ways possible because their entire goal is absolutely futile when put under any scrutiny or logical thought.
"Hurr durr we must keep women out/keep anime titties/damsels in distress/no positive portrayals of women in games/no censhorship which isn't really censhorship but i'll call that anyway because i don't have a fucking inkling of art at all!1!"
it's a bunch of manchildren with nothing better to do but complain about the opposite gender trying to take away their precious collection of pathetic sexist shit/gaming becoming more inclusive and less receptive to their nonsense.. Which recently seems to be centered around underage and/or underage looking girls. -_-
 
I'm really disturbed at you trying to classify it as a sexual orientation. It's a mental illness through and through and should not be framed as anything but.

Right, it is a psychiatric disorder, but throwing those who have done nothing wrong in jail/an asylum is not ethical at all. These people definitely need help, and we should be helping them. I don't see how he was framing it as anything but. Yoshi was just saying that there is no reason they shouldn't be allowed to live a normal life if they are non-acting. Keeping someone from a job in marketing because of it wouldn't make much sense at all.
 
Did not take long. They made sure to delete that thread to cover their tracks

I find it odd that people on the internet still don't know about cached pages. Deleting that thread isn't going to do shit other than make the people involved look even more guilty.
 
i am 99% sure that notch said it tongue in cheek.

Don't think so. In his timeline he's talking about thought policing and censorship and " fuck the sissification of society" and all that.

EDIT: He also seems to agree with Boogie on the "neutral" thing which there is no neutral.
 
God fucking sake, twice in a row I woke up to shitty news in the morning.

I've never wished for anything from Nintendo before but for God sake fight back.
 
Jesus fucking Christ.

Allison, if you read this, stay strong. Know that there are saner people out there who will defend your right to...I dunno, be a decent human being? Is this really what we have to do in 2016; protest against those who want to be shitty?

I'm scared of the power rush they might get if Drumpf gets in the Oval Office.
 
I agree, but I was referring to the idea (or how I interpreted that post) that an openly admitted pedophile should have any position in marketing and whatnot.

One who is an openly admitted pedophile (who has not done any harm to anyone) should not be ruled out from a position in marketing video games.On what basis? "I don't like what you are"?

Also, I see no reason why pedophilia should not be a sexual orientation. And a mental illness, too.
 
If they haven't done anything to act on those feelings, why should they not have a job?
because if they're comfortable admitting to it and sharing with the world how they'd like to fuck children, I think it's probably a dangerous trajectory they're on.

I have a ton of a sympathy for anyone who is unlucky enough to have the illness and refuses to act upon it - but if they're ever going to think pedophilia as an act is something that should be accepted or embraced, I will not tolerate that under any circumstance.
 
because if they're comfortable admitting to it and sharing with the world how they'd like to fuck children, I think it's probably a dangerous trajectory they're on.

I have a ton of a sympathy for anyone who is unlucky enough to have the illness and refuses to act upon it - but if they're ever going to think pedophilia as an act is something that should be accepted or embraced, I will not tolerate that under any circumstance.

Dude, just because they admit it doesn't mean they're proud of it. If people are open about it and non-acting, it probably means that they are getting help and are not likely at all to commit the act.
 
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