Archive - October 15th, 2014
Anita Sarkeesian, Video Game Critic, Cancels Speech After Threats of Massacre
Anita Sarkeesian, Video Game Critic, Cancels Speech After Threats of Massacre:
Well… this is what gaming culture looks like in The Newspaper Of Record today. Everyone loses.
“”The older you are, the more likely it is that you’ve said or believed some truly loathsome…”
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“The older you are, the more likely it is that you’ve said or believed some truly loathsome things in your life; that you’ve been, for lack of a better term, on the wrong side of history. But when you were, you were probably among your cohort—it is in all of your best interest to bury those words, exchanged over beers or in class or over email, forever. This is cowardice and conspiracy. This is also very easy. Ask the old people in your life.
These young men feel like they’re among their cohort, too, but their actions are both material and recorded. They’re not just enabling the status quo with private speech and public silence—their anger and error is being recorded for posterity. I mean maybe all this text gets swept away as the internet remakes itself again and again, taking all the “feminists are ruining my life” and “but it’s actually about ethics in games journalism!” comments with it. But maybe it doesn’t! Maybe this post on gaming forum NeoGAF (via) will play out in slow motion over many years, for thousands of people, as they look back on their own words frozen in amber”
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“”The older you are, the more likely it is that you’ve said or believed some truly loathsome…”
“
“The older you are, the more likely it is that you’ve said or believed some truly loathsome things in your life; that you’ve been, for lack of a better term, on the wrong side of history. But when you were, you were probably among your cohort—it is in all of your best interest to bury those words, exchanged over beers or in class or over email, forever. This is cowardice and conspiracy. This is also very easy. Ask the old people in your life.
These young men feel like they’re among their cohort, too, but their actions are both material and recorded. They’re not just enabling the status quo with private speech and public silence—their anger and error is being recorded for posterity. I mean maybe all this text gets swept away as the internet remakes itself again and again, taking all the “feminists are ruining my life” and “but it’s actually about ethics in games journalism!” comments with it. But maybe it doesn’t! Maybe this post on gaming forum NeoGAF (via) will play out in slow motion over many years, for thousands of people, as they look back on their own words frozen in amber”
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