What is "Gamergate"?

The Gamergate controversy is an online harassment campaign, primarily conducted through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate, that centered on issues of sexism and anti-progressivism in video game culture such as harassment campaigns targeting game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, as well as Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist critic.

During the Gamergate controversy the term "Social Justice Warriors" gained a negative connotations.

Wikipedia contributors. (2021c, July 11). Gamergate controversy. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

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Perspective of an anonymous Japanese gamer

First of all, most Japanese people don't give a crap about political correctness. It doesn't mean we have no interest in it. Of course we want the world to be a better place. No war, no racism and no sexual harassments, that is a good thing. So we think political correctness isn't a bad thing. However, we don't really need to be concerned about that even in games or other entertainments, do we? Do you think for yourselves while gaming, "hey there is a Asian man in this game, that is a good point because that's diverse"? No. We want a good game with a good story, good animations, good music, good dialogues and good characters. Not the diversity. I know the diversity in characters makes a good story. Unique and diverse characters will definitely make the story interesting, but the what's wrong is that the PC people are criticizing in lack of diversity, not the game itself. Maybe there is a game which is set in Europe which all the characters in the ga...

Should we ban things if it weren't "politically correct?"/Are people who are for PC being too radical?/Are people who are for PC using PC as a tool to criticize what they didn't like?

When people who uses political correctness as a weapon to criticizing talk, they don’t want to talk with you, but they want to talk "at" you. You’re supposed to shut up, listen and believe because they think that their belief is the only right theory in the world and everything else is "politically incorrect". If talking with one SWJ, we can handle that. However if there's many of them and criticizing ones work, what we should do is resist and voice your community whether if you are offended or not. We have to resist and shout out to tell that what they are doing is wrong. We have to protect our work from those who are trying to destroy them. Boghossian, P., & Lindsay, J. (2019b, October 12). Social-Justice Warriors Won’t Listen, but You Should. WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-justice-warriors-wont-listen-but-you-should-11570832255 Political Correctness Works For No One | Jonathan Kay | TEDxUTSC. (2019, September 16). YouTube. https://www.youtu...

How should we deal with PC?

Jonathan Kay said there are three solutions to the extreme political correction; try not to medicalize it, try to resist, and voice your community. Trying not to assign psychic pain or discomfort to people who disagrees to you. Maybe he was just trying to say different opinions and didn't mean to hurt you. Try to examine it before accusing someone. Resisting to political correctness is important, but sometimes you need to keep your position in the group you are in. If so, you have to submit to politically correct regimes. However, try to destroy the premise of the person who tries to shut you up using PC. Voicing the community, regardless of whether you are offended or not is the most important of all. If you see something is criticized, being said that it is racist, and you thought it was not, say it out loud. We have to protect our market place of ideas from the social justice warriors. Lauren Graham insist that these days who are "politically...

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