8 Images That Show What #GamerGate Is Really About

All too often, social justice warriors and corrupt gaming critics have been slandering GamerGate, but do they honestly know what it's about?

1. Nepotism

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Nepotism is the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.

2. Generalizations

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#GamerGate wants to end massive generalizations of gamers, including allegations of misogyny and being exclusively male.

3. Forcing Agendas

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Games are fun, not politics.

4. Accusations

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Just because we have a different opinion than you doesn't mean we hate you.

5. Hypocrisy

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Seriously. Stop.

6. Lies

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Everyone lies, but when you're lying in order to demonize a demographic, you're literally Hitler.

7. False Equivelencies

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I remember the last time I blew up a city because Grand Theft Auto told me to.

8. Journalistic Integrity

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Journalism is about reporting news and stories, not about trying to attack, demean, or demoralize groups of people. History tells us that malicious journalism has brought the worst of people: from the depiction of Jews in Nazi Germany to the dreadful comics of African Americans in the 1800s. Why, then, is it OK to do to gamers?

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