These are some actual Tweets posted yesterday by @FartToContinue, a fairly prominent #GamerGater.
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537391103100858368
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537402552892280832
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537396025284395009
A few minutes with Google image search reveals that two of the images are photoshopped versions of photos documenting or depicting racial segregation in the Jim Crow era in the United States; one of the signs was originally directed at … hippies.
The originals:
H/T — @PixelGoth on Twitter
The problem is that black people didn’t do anything wrong by being black and thus didn’t deserve to be cut off from society. Gamer gators on the other hand choose to be complete shitheads that no one wants to be around.
(now with account and low-res avatar!)
Okay, so this means that within the span of living memory
1. a horrible thing happened (Jim Crow),
2. there was an acceptable reaction to the horrible thing (Civil Rights), then a
3. TOTAL overreaction to the horrible thing (Civil Rights continuing to exist), so
4. the same people who fought that first horrible thing are now responsible for an EQUALLY horrible thing (Social Justice) oppressing the exact sort of people who started the original horrible thing, and this is horrible.
History moves forward in… retaliatory spirals. It does make perfect sense, I guess, when you think about how white Australians are living under the boot of Aboriginal tyranny and the super gay government of Uganda has denied straight people the vote and bloody dodos are terrorizing the world.
This reminds me of the nostalgia critic, he came upon a scene in a movie and well I just want to make it into a meme that I think fits this.
http://i.imgur.com/agzuEaj.jpg?1
#NotAllWhitePeople of course
@ sparky, think the word you’re looking for is Schadennausea.
Slightly on topic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=670if6Etx0o
…I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
@Shaun Day
That was beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing that.
The projection they engage in is astonishing. Their central accusation is that “SJW’s” are professional victims and manufacture things to complain about is in fact what they principally engage in themselves.
Garbage like this is what they think SJW’s are doing when talking about patriarchy or exclusion. They think that everyone else must be as awful as them and couldn’t possibly be sincere about helping others or combating issues.
Whenever I think I’m safe saying such a noncontroversial thing… There’s some boss who fired someone for showing up with the wrong bumper sticker.
Err, just trying to say hyperbole is hard in a world apparently bent on mimicking satire.
OK, I have to know: What facilities are actually polling people to see if they are gamers, and then segregating the gamers? Really. I NEED TO KNOW!!!!
How else am I supposed to take my business there? The feminazi cabal has failed to send out their weekly newsletter listing the approved businesses that are currently following the gamer-segregation rules.
Seriously, though, just what discrimination do these people believe they are facing? How, exactly, are they being disenfranchised? I can’t even begin to feel sympathy for them, until I see at least ONE compelling case of disenfranchisement, due to being a Gamer.
@ M. the Social Justice Ranger
Maybe it would be like some sorta interracial marriage or KKK thing where any SJW with A SINGLE DROP OF GAMER BLOOD in them would have to go to the gamer bathrooms.
…yes, that sounds insane but these pictures are more or less implying that you’re born as a gamer and that it’s somehow a genetic trait. Which is funny considering gamergate’s transphobia (and homophobia to a lesser extent), rofl.
*spits coffee all over desk*
Whaaaaaaat?
For group consisting predominantly of white males, I have to say, their lack of a sense of irony is quite troubling.
Only Females have a good sense of irony.
Wow, I got nothing other than a hearty fuck these assholes. This my peak Gamegator moment, I expect their usual terribleness about women at this point and I’m numb to people saying stupid shit about Ferguson, but this actually caused my blood pressure to shoot up. Anyone this gleefully ignorant and offensively stupid about basic American social history that’s taught in fucking grade and high school should have “I’m an asshole, ignore me forever” permently tattooed to their forehead.
I’m so oppressed sitting in my loungeroom, playing with my purpose-built supercomputer designed specifically for entertainment having to play a game where the designers values were more inclusive than mine.
Or heaven forbid, accidentally reading a review I don’t agree with on the internet!
Rand Paul, libertarian hero, has argued repeatedly that businesses should be allowed to segregate because freeze peach reasons and government can’t tell us what to do.
Sauce for the goose, sauce for the Rander, fellas. You can’t be horrible racist assholes one minute and then wail about how unjust oppression is the next.
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants:
As if anything faced by the average Gamergator could be construed as “oppression” to begin with…
Twitter account suspended 😀
Lol at mr farty. twitter didn’t like you.
Wow that Fart guy is such a dick. I don’t understand why uber-trolls like him get pleasure from upsetting other people. What is wrong with him?
Now if only YouTube would follow suit. He’s been shitting up damn near every comments thread under damn near every video for years.
I’m new around here. Is Inez Milholland a known troll, or what?
In case not, I’m going to address her directly: When Person A compares something trivial to segregation and Person B calls them out on it, Person B is not somehow being clueless about oppression. Quite the opposite.
Either that, or you didn’t realize that “GamerGhazi” actually refers to an anti-Gamergater subreddit. In which case I apologize!
lack of empathy, i think. everyone needs a hobby, and if one views other humans as squeaky toys, then of course one is going to enjoy squeezing them to make them squeak.
i’m aware of no trolling tendencies from inez, and i think you really misread that comment. i would be shocked if inez doesn’t know about the reddit.
Oh! My! Mr Fart’s freeze peach has been shut down by Twitter. I bet Mr Fart is sorry if anyone took offence at his pictures