i have always said that the focus on gaming journalism is a tunnel vision that does not jibe with what the community actually cares about - in the entirety of its existence. and i've said that the mission statement is flat out wrong and flawed as it does not specifically identify and call out our EXPLICIT ENEMIES: RAD FEM/SJWs.
IN EVERY CONTEXT in which we have a beef with someone, they are rad fem/sjws... so why not fucking embrace that and be honest in a way that we always criticize others for lacking.
anita sarkisian is not essentially about gaming journalism.
neither is zoe quinn with the attendant blackout of discussion.
again - our enemies are the rad fem/sjws and to ban from the conversation things like UVA rape bullshit from rolling stone or shirtgate or sad puppies is to WEAKEN the community and our fight against a COMMON ENEMY.
but as i've come to learn, there's no essential good and integrity in ANY group... everyone has weaknesses and blinders that pisses me off. so if you guys make this so strict as to restrict the conversation to "gaming journalism", i'm out.
when schreier called us out for featuring a lot of talk against SJW shit and calling us inconsistent for not saying so - he was fucking right for a change.
and again, i'm speaking as a rational liberal who can see where the lines of battle are and who our enemies are.
you guys can't fight a war in which you show up at a precisely demarcated battlefield while IGNORING THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMIES for fuck's sake.
srsly, this pisses me off no end - wtf is wrong with you guys who have made the mission statement so that you don't see this? like i want a fucking answer... wtf?
missing the forest for the trees barely fucking covers it.
and rallying against an identified ENEMY is one of the most powerful psychological weapons an army can have... why the fuck are you trying to nerf that by keeping the struggle against that which is simply "unethical"?
anyway, as i said, i have been disabused of the notion of groups so do as you will.
but if you narrow the focus so that we are not allowed to discuss and call out our enemies. i'm out because then the movement has become completely fucking useless and not of interest to me and i would wager, not of interest to a great many here.