Holy crap. While I disagree with his tone,
this guy gets what many of us in Gamergate have been saying for a while. If you want to end Gamergate, the moderates in GG have to win. You fix ethics in journalism and we go away. Without us, the movement crumbles. Hell, we'll be the biggest group beating down the remnants who want to continue their mayhem. Hell, we already kind of are.
But that would be bad for Gawker, so you know it won't happen.
If for some reason you can't access slate at work, here's a bit of quote(only a paragraph, but an important one), though you really should read the whole thing. It has some great pics that just can't be linked.
Quote:
You can see the moderate psychology on display in the two posts below, by trans lesbian gamer Sophia Eris and an anonymous Gamergate member, respectively. The dynamic is not male vs. female but consumer vs. media and victim vs. bullies. The moderates feel that they are unjustly maligned victims, and that Gamergate is their unfortunate port of last resort. It is possible to change that feeling without a cost to diversity and inclusivity in gaming and society: a non-zero-sum solution. The moderates started to fall into the movement’s self-reinforcing narrative when gamers en masse were deemed “obtuse ******************** “misogynerds,†and other epithets in a dozen contemporaneous “gamers are dead†articles; every inflammatory comparison and slur since then (such as Gawker editor Max Read calling Gamergate members “neuroatypicalsâ€) has boosted their numbers. Apologize for these exaggerations and they will start to fall out.
Edited, Oct 29th 2014 1:00am by Poldaran