This Was Absolutely Predictable
Around 2015 or so; I warned a friend of mine, with whom I disagree with politically, not to take the newly named "alt-right" lightly. This person, whom I'm not going to name for obvious reasons, identifies as as conservative but was expressing some amusement at the worrywarts on the left over these people. These people, like Yiannapolis, Cernovich, Baldwin, Bannon, etc. were not just people that were disliked by the left, they were dangerous I warned. I was familiar with these people from the travesty known as gamergate. This occurred about a year before my conversation (2014) and was an organized campaign of harassment under the guise of wanting to protect the integrity of video game journalism. The entire shit show involved harassing anyone that dared to make mention of any kind of sexism in the video game industry--whether that sexism was in the games or in the industry that produced them. Paraphrasing one of the victims of gamergate in a twee yesterday, gamergate was