Cathy Young
1 min readSep 22, 2019

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The “very fine people” in Charlottesville knowingly came to a rally organized by alt-right/white nationalist groups.

The people involved in GamerGate … associated with a self-promoting Breitbart “journalist” who later moved on from GamerGate to become an apologist for white nationalists? The parallel still doesn’t work.

In any case, I explicitly make the point in the article that it’s important for “anti-PC” movements to repudiate unsavory allies. I agree that GG did not do that enough and some people were way too cavalier about the presence of teenage “shitposters” who liked to dabble in Holocaust jokes.

Then again, some pretty of the most disgusting rhetoric about the Holocaust came from anti-GamerGate (Geordie Tait). Looks like “both sides” to me.

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Cathy Young
Cathy Young

Written by Cathy Young

Russian-Jewish-American writer. Associate editor, Arc Digital; contributor, Reason, Newsday, The Forward etc. https://www.patreon.com/CathyYoung

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