If you grit your teeth and do a search for #GamerGate and #Ferguson together on Twitter, you will find Tweet after Tweet from worried #GamerGaters earnestly imploring their comrades not to make any connections between the two hashtags. Why? Because they know that those who cross the streams are likely to Tweet things like the following.
This what happens when #GamerGaters try to make sense of what is happening in Ferguson.
#GamerGate is more relevant to me than Ferguson because, well, I'm not a black Missourian, but I am a gamer.
— Jason "Rabbit" (@Klohinx) November 25, 2014
https://twitter.com/SHREKFLEX/status/537070193311494144
https://twitter.com/fireye47/status/537088458406125568
I feel for #MikeBrown's family and supporters, but most of all, I feel for #Ferguson liquor store owners tonight.
— Izel (@i_z_e_l_s) November 25, 2014
You have to be understanding about the #FergusonRiots. After all, don't white people riot every time a black suspect is acquitted? #Ferguson
— Izel (@i_z_e_l_s) November 25, 2014
https://twitter.com/Noin007/status/537095206630199297
#Ferguson is a great example of how SJW mindset just leads to irrational behavior #GamerGate
— Shota Loli Trap (@ShotaLoliTrap) November 25, 2014
SJW's looting and setting fire to stores, yeah you're really showing you're "peaceful". #GamerGate #Ferguson
— Shota Loli Trap (@ShotaLoliTrap) November 25, 2014
https://twitter.com/PKtheHedgehog/status/537104422472400896
https://twitter.com/PettanPettan/status/537105479030173696
#gamergate #ferguson HA! pic.twitter.com/kOyS6DlH53
— EthicsGate (@Ethics_Gate) November 25, 2014
https://twitter.com/MaxSkyFan/status/537184055004266496
https://twitter.com/PettanPettan/status/537197193501765632
https://twitter.com/PrestariumRetar/status/537273589616365570
https://twitter.com/ItalyGG/status/537276021096329217
https://twitter.com/triumfantloser/status/537290714896674816
Oh, and yes, these are all genuine #GamerGaters; check out their timelines for proof, and you’ll also see some of the terrible racist crap some of them have been tweeting and retweeting.
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The sad proof that two horrible things can indeed morph into a Voltron of injustice and intolerance.
It’s like the perfect storm of awful, cooked up by professional awful-ologists in a lab somewhere.
Fuck.
Disgusting, but not surprising.
I’m shocked. SHOCKED! See my avatar? That’s the face of a SHOCKED red panda.
Misogynistic rightwing shitfucks are racist rightwing shitfucks.
They haven’t developed a microscope sufficient to measure my surprise yet.
I am now a literal, living volcano of rage. This is my supervillain origin story.
A racist hate group full of narcissists trying to co-opt racist hatred and make it all about themselves? Must be a day ending in Y.
Oh god! It’s a new low.
I knew it would come but I didn’t expect it to be so revolting.
For fuck’s sake. There no equivalence here. Mike was gunned down (no jury, no trial), his civil and human rights were violated. These games bro’s the most get their little feelings hurt and think somehow they being oppress. I would like to invite them to be in my shoes or in any minorities in the USA and then they can speak to me about injustice.
Wow. I am in awe at the completely, unimaginably self centered douchebaggery.
I want a cage fight between the “Gamergate is just like Ferguson” people and the “Gamergate is not at all like Ferguson because black thugs” people.
This actually shocked me. I shouldn’t be shocked, but I am. There are not enough legos and 4 sided dice for these people to step on.
I love that half of them are trying to say GamerGate is like Ferguson because outrage! And the other half are like, “No that’s not us,” because right-wing racists! They are just a bunch of confused, hateful navel gazers, aren’t they?
I had a family member quote Ted Nugent’s thoughts regarding Ferguson today on Facebook. I think I got to the fourth word (“thug”) and had to close the browser before I exploded on her page with a few choice words in reply.
I just…I have no fucking words for how low this is. I cannot fathom what it’s like in their heads.
“We’re just as oppressed as they are! Stop being racist against white people! We’re not looting and breaking things! Look how peaceful we are with our threats of rape and murder over the internet!”
This oppressed white people stuff is why I am so glad that my husband and I decided to stay away from extended family. They ruin ever holiday with that kind of crap. They won’t change because of it, but we won’t have to hear it anymore.
Chie: the phrase “Ted Nugent’s thoughts” feels like a blasphemy against cogitation.
How convenient to leave out tweets by GamerGate detractors comparing the movement to Ferguson. I suppose that doesn’t support your heavily biased piece.
pssssh I’ve been crossing the streams since this whole shebang started, these junkmonkey slowpokes took months to catch up. I’ve stated since the 29th that the media assault has been the same players, for the same reasons, on both fronts. The media narrative on both resistance revolts resembles the media mob we dealt with during the Genoa and Seattle anti-globalism protests, & the derision & deflation of numbers leveled at the million man march.
You forgot the best one. GG’s hero, Cernovich, shared his thoughts on how GamerGate and Ferguson are similar and how SJWs are to blame for both! https://twitter.com/SJWIlluminati/status/537124441084669952
I hope all the genuine POCs who were duped by #NotYourShield are paying attention.
Jennifer, I’ve seen anti-GG people saying that both Ferguson and Gamergate are terrible and/or depressing, that’s not the same as compariing GG to Ferguson. Can you provide examples of this?
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Cyberwulf: I hope so too. I was never fooled by that shit. Why? Because there’s not a single Black person in America that writes in such a convoluted fashion. Most Black people have learned (over the centuries) to be pretty straightforward with our thoughts.
Oh and right now, shit is going down in Cleveland. People are seriously pissed, blocking traffic and chanting “No Justice , No Peace”. This is interesting. The MRM in Cleveland are clueless as to how to handle this as most of the protesters are White.
David Futrelle | November 25, 2014 at 3:34 pm
“Jennifer, I’ve seen anti-GG people saying that both Ferguson and Gamergate are terrible and/or depressing”
com·par·i·son noun kəm-ˈper-ə-sən, -ˈpa-rə-
: the act of looking at things to see how they are similar or different
: the act of suggesting that two or more things are similar or in the same category