Consider this article published by The Verge: Gamergate comes to the classroom.
An assistant professor claims in the article that when he started a class about "Games & Society", eleven "gamergate" members had "infiltrated" the class and were filming him with their phones.
Does he, or the article, even define what "gamergate" is supposed to be? No.
Does he provide any evidence, besides his own word, that this happened? No.
Does he provide any evidence, or explain how exactly he knows that these people were part of "gamergate" (whatever he thinks that might mean)? No.
My guess is that he is either making the whole thing up, or is exaggerating and greatly embellishing what happened. (It may well be that a couple of students didn't obey his reminder that using cellphones in class is forbidden. In his mind, or in his embellished story, these few students became eleven, and their use of their cellphones became them "filming" him, even though they might not have been doing that.)
"Gamergate" has become a bona fide conspiracy theory among these social justice warriors and professors, not much different from "the Illuminati", or "the New World Order", or "deep state". They see "gamergate" everywhere, and attribute trivial events to it.
Even though they can't even define what "gamergate" is supposed to be. Apparently according to this professor it seems to be some kind of cabal, some secret society among people for the purpose of... what? Filming feminist professors or something?
When you think about it, the story doesn't make much sense. He claims that there were eleven people filming him in that class, all of whom were not students. Why would eleven non-students just go to some random university to film some class about "Games & Society"? Even if there were some strange group of people dedicated to and collaborating at exposing feminist professors and what they are teaching, why so many of them in one single class?
The term "gamergate" doesn't even mean anything anymore to these people. It's even more vacuous and meaningless than "deep state", or "the Illuminati" to conspiracy theorists. I bet they can't even give a coherent definition. It's vacuous and malleable on purpose. It has become a convenient bogeyman and scapegoat. The enemy, always lurking in the shadows, plotting against them. Not that they can point out to anybody specific, but that doesn't matter. It surely exists there, behind the surface.
As said, he probably just made the whole thing up, or became completely paranoid about a couple of students ignoring him and continuing to use their cellphones while in class, and heavily embellished the situation.
An assistant professor claims in the article that when he started a class about "Games & Society", eleven "gamergate" members had "infiltrated" the class and were filming him with their phones.
Does he, or the article, even define what "gamergate" is supposed to be? No.
Does he provide any evidence, besides his own word, that this happened? No.
Does he provide any evidence, or explain how exactly he knows that these people were part of "gamergate" (whatever he thinks that might mean)? No.
My guess is that he is either making the whole thing up, or is exaggerating and greatly embellishing what happened. (It may well be that a couple of students didn't obey his reminder that using cellphones in class is forbidden. In his mind, or in his embellished story, these few students became eleven, and their use of their cellphones became them "filming" him, even though they might not have been doing that.)
"Gamergate" has become a bona fide conspiracy theory among these social justice warriors and professors, not much different from "the Illuminati", or "the New World Order", or "deep state". They see "gamergate" everywhere, and attribute trivial events to it.
Even though they can't even define what "gamergate" is supposed to be. Apparently according to this professor it seems to be some kind of cabal, some secret society among people for the purpose of... what? Filming feminist professors or something?
When you think about it, the story doesn't make much sense. He claims that there were eleven people filming him in that class, all of whom were not students. Why would eleven non-students just go to some random university to film some class about "Games & Society"? Even if there were some strange group of people dedicated to and collaborating at exposing feminist professors and what they are teaching, why so many of them in one single class?
The term "gamergate" doesn't even mean anything anymore to these people. It's even more vacuous and meaningless than "deep state", or "the Illuminati" to conspiracy theorists. I bet they can't even give a coherent definition. It's vacuous and malleable on purpose. It has become a convenient bogeyman and scapegoat. The enemy, always lurking in the shadows, plotting against them. Not that they can point out to anybody specific, but that doesn't matter. It surely exists there, behind the surface.
As said, he probably just made the whole thing up, or became completely paranoid about a couple of students ignoring him and continuing to use their cellphones while in class, and heavily embellished the situation.
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