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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I literally don't understand her argument. What does that 20% figure have to do with anything? puzzled

Or does she think apartheid is synonymous with ethnostate?

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

Not even ethnostate. She seems to think apartheid is the same as a minority population existing.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

israel is also an ethnostate. ethnostates are based on and completely dominated by one ethnic group, even if ethnic diversity exists. israel defines itself exclusionarily as a "jewish nation-state" of the "jewish homeland"

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

Percentage of Arabs living in 48 occupied areas

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's nothing to understand, she just as well could be speaking in tongues at this point

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is weird to learn that gamergate was right wing infighting

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Ian-Miles Cheong and Cadence Owens were both anti-gamergate.

Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

I was actually aware that all games journalism is garbage at the age of like 10 because a child can be capable of internalizing that people taking money are going to be extremely charitable reviewing the people giving them money

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Turns out when you are fighting over meaningless culture war vidya game bullshit it’s very easy to swap sides since there are no material stakes

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean I was a middle schooler when Gamergate started and I never went harassing people because of it, but I definitely was caught up in Gamergate when it was first going down. It's one of the reasons I'll always love Hbomberguy, because watching his videos was how I ended the youtube algorithm death slide that was Gamergate.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Algorithm death slide is a good phrase, mine ended on the third hour-long unstructured Sargon rant with me going "god this guy is whiny, I'm sick of his voice"

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

My head hurts now

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.

I was really big into Gamergate for about 45 minutes. Then I looked it up, and it turned out it was just some dude being super pissed off that his ex did The Sex after they broke up.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, all the "ethics in game journalism" stuff was just code for "we want to make video gaming more sexist."

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anita Sarkeesian for president.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

As a bit, Anita Sarkeesian should run on free speech and call herself “Cancel culture’s first victim.”

…because she is. And she has done more for free speech than any CHUD ever will.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 61 points 3 months ago

Apartheid is when a country has multiple ethnic groups. I am very smart.

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago

Bringing Algeria into this is fucked up, because we had Apartheid enforced on Algerian Muslims by the Fr*nch colonizers (Le régime de l'indigénat).

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago

I can't be an apartheid state! I have 30% Arab friends!

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Again, the most significant thing this person has ever done was be the recipient of harassment from gamergate losers

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

Yes, she hired people to make a mobile game with N64-era graphics in the 2010's.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

G*mergate will be known to historians as a major flareup that brought the disintegration of the United States. It harbingers everything.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This implying that Gamers destroyed the West™ will never not be funny sicko-flipped

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

critical_support.wad

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Zoe Quinn is the 21st century Archduke

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There were almost 700 thousand slaves in the US in 1790, which equated to approximately 18 percent of the total population, or roughly one in every six people.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010169/black-and-slave-population-us-1790-1880/

I really wish Brianna Wu would do something productive with her life like donate her organs.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

It's interesting how the proportion of the US Black population has remained remarkably stable.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The freeze-gamers are never going to forgive you, no matter how reactionary you get.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

If only CHUDs had that energy before. It would have owned so much if Mussolini was forever branded as one of us and therefore never forgiven.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm really struggling to understand wtf she even thought her point was. since when does apartheid have anything to do with demographic proportions? how would any country that isn't an ethnostate possibly achieve 20% jews? what? jews are 0.2% of the population according to a quick google search. shouldn't they be 0.2% of the population of your country, more or less?

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Part of why I hate social media is because it elevates people with no special talent or appeal into "public figures".

Who is Brianna Wu? I had never heard of her my entire life until a month or two ago when somebody posted about her on this site. All I know about her is she was harassed by gamer-gaters back in the early 2010s, and that she now has strong political opinions that seem largely based on who she dislikes on twitter.

[–] dom@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Brianna who?

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago
[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who is this Brianna person actually and why do people keep talking about them

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Formerly known as GamerGate target with political aspirations, currently about halfway through a "this is why I left the left" grift

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Wow honestly get that bag I guess. God couldn’t have given somebody a greater grift opportunity than that

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

lauren chen's a nazi fyi

[–] D61@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All words are symbolic, they can mean whatever I want. very-intelligent

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

This is so damned commonplace I don't even bother arguing with people.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Brianna Who?

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Breaking news zionist terf defends apartheid

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

I kinda glad I got banned from twitter. Now I only get to see these hot takes and takedowns without any of the other bullshit

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Brianna Loo