FemFreq Employee Claims Participation in Berkeley Riot

Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian has a history of pearl-clutching over the theoretical correlation between what she construes as violence and misogyny in video games and those behaviors and biases by consumers in real life.

However, Ms. Sarkeesian no longer needs to concern herself about fitting curves and post-hoc analysis to determine her theoretical correlation between simulated and real violence and intolerance. There is a far easier social ill for Anita to cure: Employment at Feminist Frequency and violence.

Let’s see what employee Carolyn Petit had to say about the riots:

To get an idea about what Carolyn was inciting and perhaps engaging in, let’s see how they reacted to anyone they construed as fascists:

So far, neither Feminist Frequency nor Anita Sarkeesian herself have officially commented on the riots or her employee’s support for them.

I have reported her Tweets for “threatening violence or physical harm”, though I have my doubts if anything will come of it. Feminist Frequency has been named as a Twitter “Trust and Safety Council” member.

While many companies would actively avoid the appearance of impropriety in this situation, Twitter has a track record of stonewalling any action against members of the “Trust and Safety Council”. This includes harassment stemming from Randi Lee Harper and others named in the Crash Override Network leaks.

It is worth noting Twitter’s suspension of Milo Yiannopoulo, the lecturer who the rioters labeled a fascist, was used by them and their supporters to rationalize their violence. This suspension is still referenced as evidence that Yiannopoulo engages in some form of dialogue which can only be violently suppressed, even after Randi Lee Harper’s incitement resulted in death threats against a critic’s wife. Hence, in this selective enforcement of policy along political lines, Twitter has come full circle:

Milo’s ideas are dangerous enough to be violently suppressed, the violence, arson, and looting enforced by the same people who forbid his ideas from Twitter. This is necessary because his ideas were dangerous enough to be forbidden from Twitter.