Sure. Not trying to say otherwise, but they were at least largely quiet about it, they used euphemisms.
It’s the whole “you can’t say n* n* n*” speech from Lee Atwater.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*r, n*r, n*r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nr, nr.”
Once open bigotry was more broadly accepted (or at least it was clear that any pushback was stifled) they opened up. And gamergate was central to exposing that, and showing the GOP that there was an appetite for open fascism.
Not to mention people like Bannon explicitly came into prominence through the gamergate movement
I agree with you and the lineage is obvious when looking at how Steve Bannon pushed GamerGate at Breitbart and then went straight on to become Trump’s campaign manager.
And Bannon’s name missing from that article is one of the article’s major flaws, considering how much Bannon shaped the MAGA movement as a whole.
Sure. Not trying to say otherwise, but they were at least largely quiet about it, they used euphemisms.
It’s the whole “you can’t say n* n* n*” speech from Lee Atwater.
Once open bigotry was more broadly accepted (or at least it was clear that any pushback was stifled) they opened up. And gamergate was central to exposing that, and showing the GOP that there was an appetite for open fascism.
Not to mention people like Bannon explicitly came into prominence through the gamergate movement
I agree with you and the lineage is obvious when looking at how Steve Bannon pushed GamerGate at Breitbart and then went straight on to become Trump’s campaign manager.
And Bannon’s name missing from that article is one of the article’s major flaws, considering how much Bannon shaped the MAGA movement as a whole.