Andrew Klavan: #GamerGate Forever!

In this special episode, our well-dressed, stylish host explores the coordinated left-wing media attacks on video games and the amazing response by gamers in defense of their right to be actual humans who like things that actual humans like. See the video and transcript below. 

TRANSCRIPT:

I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.

It’s time to take a semi-serious look at gamergate.  Now I know some of you out there are saying, “Gamergate?  What’s that?  You annoying little man.  Speak english!  And tuck in your shirt.”

But Gamergate is an important cultural battleground, where brave knight-like gamers are fighting back against the leftwing Orcs and Trolls… and feminists… who are trying to monopolize entertainment.

For decades, left wingers have dominated the arts, using movies, television, novels and critical articles to sell idiot notions like: America is oppressive, capitalism is evil, gender difference is bigotry and God is dead.

Why were these leftist knuckleheads able to subvert our culture?  To find out, let’s consult Conservative Culture Expert Grampus McFuddyDudd:

Grampus:  In my day, we didn’t have all this sex and violence in the picture shows, women were virgins until they got married or drunk, whichever came first…

That’s why.

But there was one area of the culture that remained untouched by the left’s poisonous and dishonest influence:  Video games, where freedom of thought and expression were untrammeled, where men were men and women had enormous breasts — but I mean, really, just huge and you could make them jiggle around by pressing the….

Anyway…

You may not play video games yourself…

Grampus:  In my day, if we wanted to play Pong, we had to use actual paddles and make those little booping noises with our lips.  It taught us self-reliance…

But the fact is, video gaming is an important segment of the entertainment industry.  More people play video games than watch cable TV and hit games make far more money far faster than hit movies. It’s not just for kids either; most gamers are adults…  or semi-adults like myself.

And while video games are mostly geared toward the geeky males who play them, they cover a wide spectrum of points of view. There’s macho all-American scenarios in Call of Duty, multicultural sensitivity in Assassin’s Creed, gangster hyper-violence in Grand Theft Auto, and of course the feminist action of Tomb Raider starring Lara Croft with her tremendous breasts…  really they’re gigantic and when you make her jump up and down…

But… over the years, video gamers began to notice something suspicious.  Video games were continually being attacked in the media as violent and misogynistic.  Games that didn’t toe the left wing line were getting low ratings in important trade venues that were really mouthpieces for leftwing publishers like Vox Media and Gawker Media.  Left wing game journalists were organizing concerted attacks through a secret email list called GameJournoPros.  And the usual feminist dragon ladies were whining and screeching, then screeching and then whining, about every stupid thing from the fact that Super Mario rescues Princess Peach to the fact that the girl in Soul Calipur has these immense… I mean just titanic…

The point is:  Video games are under a left wing cultural invasion!  But look!  Gamers are fighting back.  Yes, a brave band of nerds calling themselves hashtag-gamergate has taken to social media and the press to denounce the onslaught of squid-like leftists and even more squid-like feminists.  With the help of honest journalists like Milo Yiannapolous of Breitbart. com, and despite the constant distortions of the mainstream media, hashtag-gamergaters are actually defending the free culture of the games they love so much.

Imagine!  What would it be like if freedom lovers fought to reclaim the culture everywhere?  If we pushed back against the left wing scolds who suck the joy out of everything they touch? If we made our own entertainments in which America is a beacon of freedom, capitalism is an engine of prosperity and innovation, the male-female dynamic is a unique source of human joy, and the God of liberty and love is alive and well.

Grampus:  What an exciting idea!  I think my heart…  Oh jinkies… [keels over with a thud.]

That’s right, freedom lovers.  Let’s follow the nerds of gamergate!  Once we dare to speak the truth fearlessly, it’s game over for the left.  Gamergate forever!

Grampus:  I think I need an ambulance.

I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.

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  • http://about.me/joeklemmer Joe Klemmer

    You know, I would be happy to support the journalistic ethics call. It’s something that is needed. But the problem is these kind of oped pieces don’t make that easy. It’d be nice if people could put aside their biases and learn the actual history about this hubbub called #GamerGate. Most of this piece is factually incorrect, as can be seen with a quick Google search for the raw logs from 4chan, Reddit & now 8chan. But then, facts and accuracy don’t exist in today’s media anymore.

    • Wyrdless

      Really? Any examples? I thought it was pretty accurate

    • Sean N.

      And you’re just repeating more propaganda. Those logs were from a public chat and could be, and likely were, manipulated. Oh, and Kotaku, as well as the timing on those logs, asserted that GamerGate was “formed” in September, when Mr. Baldwin created the tag in August in response to Gjoni’s blog post revealing the unprofessional relationships between Quinn, her married boss, nathan grayson, and other industry figures. I find it endlessly amusing that in the same breath as asserting that facts in accuracy don’t exist in today’s media, you then go onto appeal ad popularum style to a “google search” which turns up 99% HIT PIECES which make assertions all while failing to provide any evidence. You see, sane people don’t “listen and believe”. Time Line’s of GamerGate are widely available, and no, this didn’t “start” with Quinn. Much like Archduke Ferdinand having his brains blown out, her manipulative skankery was only the fuse that lit the powder keg. Feel free to defend that whole “Wizardchan is harassing me!” lie she peddled. The fact that her original claim, the thing that was used to JUSTIFY her media coverage that got her game promoted on Steam Greenlight (as a professional victim and not by being a shameless whore), was false completely destroys the arguments in favor of her beyond that. But that “inconvenient truth” isn’t really being talked about. Hmmmm… wonder why that is?

  • Dan Knight

    For a feminazi / libtard take on the matter, turn to WaPo. See the link below. The article claims to be an ‘all you need to know’ guide, and I’d bet it’s mostly true. Not that it’s convincing or even feels remotely complete. Rather, the author trashes the opposition with ad-homs, and association with people making ‘death threats,’ and neo-nazi’s.

    All of which means that death threats aside, the Left once again is turning a mountain into a mole-hill to protect it’s privileged access to the money fueling their connection (which is not mentioned in the article).

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/14/the-only-guide-to-gamergate-you-will-ever-need-to-read/

  • johninohio1

    feudal? Futile?