like why are we taking his word on this if we could hide he certainly wouldn't tell us the reason to argue with a gamergater is on the implied agreement that if you can convince them they're part of a hate mob they will leave but look at the incentives here they want to be in gamergate and you want them not to be but they're already in gamergate they're not waiting on the outcome of this argument to participate they've already got what they want they don't need to convince you gamergate isn't a hate mob this is why all their logic and rationalizations are so PROFANITY_TOKEN because they don't need to be good they're not trying to win an argument they're trying to keep the argument going this has been a precept of conservative political strategy for decades you haven't convinced us climate change is real and man-made you need to do more studies but they're not pausing the use of fossil fuels until the results of those studies come in you haven't convinced us there are no wmds in iraq you need to collect more evidence they're not suspending the war until you get back to them you haven't convinced us reaganomic tax policies cause recessions so let's just do it for another NUMBER_TOKEN years and see what happens and when the proof comes in they send us out for more and we keep going the biggest indicator that you can't win a debate with a reactionary is the fact that they keep telling you you can the biggest indicator protest and d platforming works is they keep telling you it plays into their hands the biggest indicator that you shouldn't compromise with republicans is they keep telling you doing otherwise is stooping to their level they're not gonna walk into the room and tell us what their one weakness is and then pick a time and place to hash things out and we fall for it every time because we're trying to be decent people because we want to believe the truth always wins we want to bargain in good faith and they are weaponizing our good faith against us always dangling the carrot that the reason they're like this is no one's given them the right argument for why they shouldn't be it's just a misunderstanding and really that's on us for not trying hard enough but they have no motivation to agree with us most of the people asking for debates are people who've staked their entire careers on disagreeing with us conceding any point to the left could cost them their entire livelihood let's close with the big question why games and honestly the short answer is why not games games culture has always presented itself as a hobby for young white middle class boys it's always been bigger and more diverse than that but that's how it was marketed and that's who most felt they belonged as gaming grows bigger there's suddenly room for all these marginal voices that have always been there to make themselves heard and as gaming becomes more mainstream it's having its first brushes with serious critical analysis this makes the people who have long felt gaming was theirs and theirs alone anxious and a little angry they've invested a lot of their identity in it and they don't want it to change and what the far right sees is a sizable collection of aggrieved young men and that is an untapped market this is why sites like stormfront and breitbart flock to them they're
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