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GG NO RE 10/08/14 (Wed) 1 File (hide): 1412816123551 ipg (83.57 KB, 600x800 1:1, framing_debate 3 ID: b63b3d No.71811 specific t FRAMING A New False Narrative The Intel and other ad pullouts, as well as the Dell f--- up have forced the jounalists to act. With more and more MSM people paying attention, the false harassment narrative is beginning to fall apart So they now must shift the goalposts, and have drafted in another heavy hitting writer to do it for them. They MUST do this now. The increasing attention on #Gamergate had FORCED them to shift the narrative. People have started doubting, or stopped believing entirely that #Gamergate supporters are xist, racist, or harassing anyone. They must paint a new false narrative of Gamergate as an angry, directionless, self-destructive mob with contradictory values. Above all they must deny that we are a consumer revolt I had expected them to trot out LW 1-2-3 again, which they may do anyway, but re-framing the present narrative shows that they have begun to think tactically about the fallout MSM attention wil bring GG NO RE 10/08/14 (Wed) 18:08:02 ID: b63b3d No.71897 7194572475 73704 File (hide) tar brush.jpg) Different Paint; Same Brush as bad as the They are trying to paint #Gamergate as a hypocritical anti-Social Justice, agenda driven movement. Now, instead being harassers we are a mass of contradictions", extremists (parodies) we claim to fight". In the article, we are accused of being hypocritcs as we (among other things) Condemn blackballing but support boycotts of corrupt sites (Even though one is an industrial abuse; the other is exercising consumer choice) Promote otyourshield but are using those women and minorities as a shield Again they only view minorities as weaponized", not people with real opinions Say we're not focused on LW 1-2-3, but we "keep talking" about them anyway (Both are professional victims being carted out over and over, and we've mostly gotten wise to that by now) We fight SJWs (said to be a parody of SOCJUS), but employ all their "tactics" >Implying SJWs ever send emails, or refrain from bullying, doxxing, and haras alism, but want to scour all dissenting views (We want c t sites GONE. Their a mask for their The style is recognisable. Brief scattershot arguments, as devoid of context as possible. Our actions are being painted as unreasonable, even though in many cases these actions were rational and reasonable responses to extreme claims and behaviour. The ugly tarring of our using #Notyourshield as shields is particularly egregious. The #No you shield supporters speak for themselves as gamers n effect it is a dressed up elaboration ofthe weaponized minorities slur used a month ago s interesting, but note how the author claims such behaviour has been noted and condemned earlier. But none o it has during #Gamergate itself and the dooing and harassment we The admission of the existence of Social Justice Wamors have experienced is written off as exaggerated parody The article also mentions 4chan by name "Enemies proliferated as fear mushroomed online. When 4chan itself had at last had enough of GamerGate and began deleting threads discussing it, this too was seen as more proof of an SJW conspiracy. In this we can see how the very real censorship #Gamergate has faced will be framed As an imagined conspiracy, tinfoil hattery, a mental disorder of some kind. This ties into our tar ng as extremist The censorship is not something anyone will be willing to acknowl n all of these arguments, the context of events and actions is missing. We are accused of believing in an imagined effort to silence our attempts to discuss the corruption and cliques in games journalism and, increasingly, media on the internet GG NO RE 10/08/14 (Wed) 18:13:00 ID: b63b3d No.71929 271997 Austin Powers "Turns out Vanessa i く。 I'm glad you asked. My guess is that this piece will serve as the seed to a new series of "Gamers are Dead type articles, just as Leigh Alexander's Gamasutra piece did We Should Expect a Repeat of the "Gamers are Dead" articl Expect a repeat of the "Gamers are Dead spree of articles in the wake of this piece. At Kotaku, Polygon, all the rest, as well as Time, Guardian, New Yorker articles again with other MSM publications connected to the EDGE magazine clique, and the likes of Advance publications. As with Alexander's "Gamer's are Over" piece, the points and attacks made in this article will be copied, repeated and rehashed in an effort to paint #Gamergate as unreasonable and extremist consumer, as a human being, and POLITELY and RESPECTFULLY refuse to support corrupt websites and continue t We should be ready for this. We need to stand fast as gamers ask companies to do the same. Challenge their arguments rigorously and with evidence. Show the context of our actions and why our movement is not equivalent to their extremist actions, or the parody of our actions they have attempted to portray 18:26:35 ID: b63b3d No .71997 2272078 272324 2273735 contextualization-meaning ipg) Here is perhaps the most important point They are desperate to take the idea of a "Consumer Revolt" away from #Gamergate rom But this is also the story of what makes GamerGate different from other extreme political movements. Its pretensions to being a "consumer revolt make it both more distinctive and more dangerous than any "social justice warrior The ideology-of-no-ideology inherent to "consumer revolts" acts as an additional layer of insulation against self-reflection, making it even easier to avoid conducting moral inventories of one's CONTEXTUALIZATION behaviour Left utopian fallacies can lead us into new layers of hell; neoliberal "consumer revolts" threaten to drown us in the one we already live in hnk t means what you think it meas Remember. We consumer revolt, and they have NO POWER to stop a consumer revolt. So they MUST try to recast us as something we are not, or else try to change the very meaning of a consumer revolt" itself I cannot stress this enough. The very IDEA of an apolitical, universal, consumer lead revolt is beyond their ability to understand, manage, derail or sabotage. They MUST recast us in political, identity, gender colours in order to provide themselves with a target they know how to attack. There will be a concerted push to paint #Gamergate as inherently politica ght wing. neo bera libertarian randian etc. etc. They have no easy o even understanding an apolitica non-identity obsessed community movement The argument of gamers being "entitled" is also thrown out (The ME3 ending is specifically referenced). The notion that consumers can make demands is ridiculed and "socially politicised" at some length in the article. It's part of painting gamers as immature, entitled, paranoid, and intolerant. short, they are trying to change the very meaning of a Consumer Revolt into something they can easily attack, ridicule or dismiss #Gamergate is to be turned into a straw man GaymerGate 10/08/14 (Wed) 19:0 1 ID: 8e8167 No.72205 72243 A reminder about informal fallacies: Calling fallacy is not enough (things like a composition fallacy may be valid if in fact the part is identical to the whole group, things like that). Rattling off the names of fallacies is what the enemy does, and they think it stops arguments; sophist rhetoric at its finest. Locating the fallacy only serves to lead to the masquerading or distortion of fact itself. That's what you really want to dig for. Find the fact, and show that they're being deceptive by constructing misleading and rickety arguments to conceal it. GG NO RE 10/08/14 (Wed) 18:54:46 ID: b63b3d No.72163 ile (hide) my-fb-nexus-network une-2. .jpg ) Finally one important point The Web of Connections. GameJournoPros As with the "Gamers are Dead" articles. the new wave of attack pieces will reveal the crony connections between individuals and companies involved in #Gamergate We should use the opportunity to confirm existing connections such as the EDGE magazine alumni, Sliverstring Media, Conde Nast, Advance Publications, and perhaps uncover new ones (I expect Gawker itself has become concerned with #Gamergate now). For example, the author of this piece has disclosed her connections to Kotaku, a highly corrupt publication whose future operations would be in question if #Gamergate succeeds in its long term goals of cleaning up the Games industry. We should focus most on PR, media, and other corporate connections We should also question whether GameJournoPros was really shut down, or whether it has been reformed in a more secure format. Each journalist who published an article should be challenged to xplain whether they colluded with others to set an agenda or narrative around #Gamergate Previous evidence of collusion should be shown to prove that it is reasonable to suspect such collusion I fully expect the new attack articles to be in motion. But this time we must be ready on all fronts to openly challenge them. They will be further evidence of corruption and agenda setting among games journalists and we must be ready to expose them as such, using past cases, and previous connections we have uncovered. GG NO RE 10/08/14 (Wed) 19.07:42 ID: b63b3d No.72243 2272950 2272972 apolean_never_interruptjp9) Never interrupt your enamy One last thing. This will probably happen regardless. Our response will always be after the fact. But we should be aware of upcoming events and shifts. This is why the twitter Anons are so useful as they bring slip ups lik this to our attention early so we can be ready Regardless, #Gamergate is going t a beating in the MSM. By preparing in advance, we can send warnings and information to those in the MSM who are starting to pick up the story, so that they do not drop the ball too Remember, we cannot win over the corrupt jounalists or their SOCJUS defenders. We can only appeal to the common sense and reason of the wider audience here. This is exactly what the present article attempts to subvert by tarring us as frightening extremists, dismissing our community and our consumer revolt Above all, we must be persistent. Slow and steady use of politeness, respect, reason and above all emails will keep the pressure on and get our message out to the wider world

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Cashpop

Oct 09, 2014 at 08:52PM EDT

This whole thing is becoming very scary.

Such as this saying the other side is trying to spin the narrative once again to portray us as something else, in this case we are apparently going to be portrayed as hypocrites, extremists, full of contradictions, paranoid tinfoil hat wearers, and the like.

From the anti-GG article and what this person said, if the prediction comes true, we just need to be prepared for the next wave of articles that may paint us in a new, horrid image.

We can’t give up now

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