Well, what do you know? Journalism attacking gamers and drawing ridiculous conclusions or straight up lying? Nah, it couldn't be! Today's media isn't filled with religious zealots right? We dealt with that nonsense in '90s right?
They start right off the bat, by accusing gamers of using Discord to coordinate the Charlottesville protest. There's multiple things wrong with this garbage. Gamers aren't equivalent to the Alt-Right, or white nationalists, or neo-nazis. All people of all creeds play games, even regressives, like all the journalists that attacked gamers back in 2014 and made me question the direction the left was headed in the first place.
Secondly, yeah, they talk online, whoopdy-fucking-doo, would you look at that?! It's not like this is the 21st century and everybody talks online or anything. So how the fuck is Discord involved in any way? They probably used Facebook too, or Twitter, yet you don't say anything about them? Could it be that both those corporations subscribe to your censorious policies?
Then they start misrepresenting the #GamerGate movement, like it has been done since its inception. As you can see from the tweets on the right, all taken from the video, none of them contain the hashtag, so I don't know how you can tie them to the movement at all, but that's not gonna stop the smearing of everyday gamers.
Then, none of the Twitter handles of whoever sent those tweets is visible, so who knows who sent them? Might be actually those supposed journalists GG was opposing, or it could be something completely unrelated. Who knows? Apparently, these leftist rags are clairvoyant or something, unlike us peasants.
Thirdly, they equate the movement to misogyny, when the the participants attacked a specific female game developer that produced a garbage game, and fucked some game journalists in exchange for glowing reviews. Gamers attacked that unethical practice, but of course, the media ignores the core principle, and latches on to the fact that she was a women. Who the hell gives a fuck? Her shitty game got good reviews, when in fact nobody liked it, because she spread her legs. Not to mention that she wasn't the main target, but the gaming news sites that facilitated her whoring around.
Next, how the hell are white nationalists connected to this? They're a movement based on racial identity. Last I checked, race is not the same as sex. Also, I fail to see how gaming has anything to do with gaming. People of all colours play games, does that make all black people involved in #GamerGate, coons? Well, they don't touch on this in the video, but considering black people that don't subscribe to the general leftist politics are called that all the time, it wouldn't surprise me.
Later in the video, NBC blames gamers and Discord because alt-righters also play games and manage their servers. They claim that some of these rooms required members to post photos of themselves to prove they're caucasian. While that is indeed despicable, anyone can post any picture in those servers. Also, even if all the members of those chat rooms were completely honest, how is any of that Discord's fault?
They also equate this to what happened in Charlottesville and, of course, to Trump. Because we all know that everyone that voted for hims is obviously a racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe and part of other various -isms. Of course the Alt-right couldn't possibly be a reaction to the regressive article posted day after day condemning white men for everything in the world. God forbid anyone is responsible for their own actions!
One thing that gives me hope is the like to dislike ratio on the video. At the moment of writing you can see that the reaction is overwhelmingly negative. Also, the fact that less and less people turn to and trust the mainstream press is refreshing. The corporate media is probably the biggest threat western society faces, and I'm glad that independent people gain more traction and decentralised platform are becoming stronger by the day. Hopefully it continues, and we see sites such as Steemit, DTube, Bitchute, Minds and others where individual people can bring information from the source, and they completely destroy the giants aiming to censor all that does not tow the party line!