how about harassing a indie dev studio for speaking out against the Muslim Ban? That happaned as well.
Making a video where he doesn't agree with a team's response to Trump is not harassment. It's bizarre that after years of seeing angry nerds scream about feminism on youtube that somebody far more calmly just saying "Hey, I don't agree with the methods of protest this dev team is going about, why not take after this other team's method of donating to the ACLU instead?" (not to even say if I agree with him or not) is 'harassment'.
Instead of focusing on the one thing, what about all the things he's done?
How about examples that extend beyond 'he's a conservative' and 'he used the wrong terms to describe someone he barely knew about I don't like'?
Yeah, it's not like the tweet was an isolated incident
Also go and look at almost any of the posts in the PSILY thread instead of trying to derail this one
I wasn't the one that brought him up in the first place, but it's cute that not blindly agreeing he's a piece of shit counts as derailing a thread.
If people are willing to join neo-nazis because some white young conservative dude got called out for being sexist on Women's Day in a culture and medium known for its misogyny, then maybe those people weren't actually that empathetic or 'liberal/left-winged' to begin with.
My point was apolitical or moderates who are easily galvanized by people appealing to their hobbies. If people are going to see this as a culture war, you could at least stand to be more aware how people you'd otherwise assume wouldn't ever give a shit about politics suddenly get recruited into swerving hard right because someone they like got called sexist. It's dumb, but it's also dumb to just assume the best way to combat this trend among younger, isolated geeks is to just tell those types to suck it up and question why your numbers are dwindling.
He sure likes to use the exact language and phrases as Gamergaters and use the same basic arguments about PC culture and SJWs and feminists.
Political Correctness is a debate that's been raging for decades and has been lampooned by all sides of the political spectrum. Yes, it increasingly gets used by the right in recent times as a smokescreen to deflect serious discussions about inclusiveness in gaming and other media, but declaring anyone who complains about it a Gamer Gater is naive at best. Why the hell would someone in GG make a video defending Zoe Quinn and Depression Quest's right to exist anyway? Why would Colin be championing stuff like Horizon, The Last of Us and fucking Gone Home if he secretly supported GG?
I don't care about him being a liberal, I only care that he's using his platform to spread veiled bigoted shit and further entrench already misogynist parts of gaming culture with his sexist bullshit and fascist apologia.
Besides, Dicks Ahoy, I gave you a list of things that shows his track record of being an insensitive and inconsiderate guy who's willing to throw the rights of minorities under the bus, use his IGN platform to complain about women speaking up in video games, and who continuously remains silent in the face of oppression and harassment.[/QUOTE]And I pointed out that list largely boiled down to 'he has conservative viewpoints I disagree with' and some jumps in logic due to some terms hes used you don't agree with. So far the 'veiled bigoted shit' examples being given are 'PC culture is dumb' and a dumb joke that if posted by a mod on GAF on the same Woman's Day people would instantly recognize it for the dumb joke it was intended as.
Does GAF *really* not see how this looks like McCarthyism from an outsider's perspective, and just how insanely easy it is for people on the right to hop on this shit to entice kids and teens who don't know any better? Hell, Trump's already using 'McCartyhism' in his tweets, just like it took mere days for him to know to twist the 'fake news' stories into his favor among his base. I don't see how people can so easily keep falling for this.
The only legitimate point I've seen out of all of this is that Colin is bad at keeping his fanbase in check (something which I think holds true for
a lot of personalities, and is what makes stuff like Jon's 1.5 million twitter followers such a daunting prospect for smaller personalities to publicly oppose his idiocy), but at this point you've already tainted the argument too much with other hyperbolic accusations that cloud the whole issue.
