Friday, July 31, 2015

#Gamergate, #cuckservative and racism against Adam Goodes


There is a line that can be drawn, a lineage that can be traced, between a number of recent primal screams emanating originally from shadowy ranks of white male recidivism.
  • The #gamergate movement, which is a reaction by openly misogynist males against what they see as attacks against the identity of white male gamers, started by a cadre of hardcore drongos on sites like Reddit, gaining momentum as it gathers up tenuously related non-sexist criticisms of game industry and media elites, gradually building into a mob where the majority are not sexist, but the masses give credence to the movement started by a vocal and unrepresentative minority.
  • The #cuckservative movement, which is a reaction by openly white supremacist males against what they see as attacks against the identity of white male American conservatives, started by a cadre of hardcore drongos on sites like 8chan, gaining momentum as it gathers up tenuously related non-racist criticisms of conservative political and media elites, gradually building into a mob where the majority are not racist, but the masses give credence to the movement started by a vocal and unrepresentative minority.
  • The mass booing of Adam Goodes, which is a reaction by openly racist males against what they see as attacks against the identity of white male Australians, started by a cadre of hardcore drongos at AFL games, gaining momentum as it gathers up tenuously related non-racist criticisms of sporting and media elites, gradually building into a mob where the majority are not racist, but the masses give credence to the movement started by a vocal and unrepresentative minority.
In all three cases, there is a core of horrible people who perform anti-social acts with stated justifications that any reasonable person would find abhorrent, but the majority of participants in this anti-social behaviour use the argument that they don't share the horrible beliefs of the fringe members of the group, thus they shouldn't be tarred with the same brush.

In any large political grouping, there are going to be fringe elements inside the "big tent". Nationalist skinheads vote Liberal, feral communists vote Labor, and these actions are perfectly acceptable and do not invalidate the party's platform as long as the minority doesn't dictate policy. In the case of these extra-institutional movements, however, the actions that the majority take are the same as the hardcore. How are we to tell the difference between those with criminally anti-social motivations and those who have "normal" reasons for acting like morons?

Unfortunately, this dilemma doesn't seem to worry many of those in the majority who are acting as useful idiots providing cover for the extremists. I have been involved in some very heated discussions trying to argue such people around in the case of the Goodes crisis, and I am sure the same kinds of conversations have been happening all over, both on and off the Internet, in the past week. It's a smorgasbord of bad arguments defending the indefensible, as Russell Jackson only skimmed the surface of the other day.

One of the many ways we are lucky to have been born in the Lucky Country is that despite all the talk of multiculturalism, we are largely still a very monoculturally Anglo-Celtic society, and aren't forced very often to confront our own prejudices like this. You only have to look at America where hatred towards Hispanic immigrants and black urban youth is dominating mainstream political discussion, or in England where UKIP only grows in popularity, or Europe where a member country like Hungary can fall under the grip of an openly fascist regime and barely an eyelid is blinked. In comparison, we lost our minds for weeks on end when a man asked a question on a TV program. Our privilege as Australians, let alone white Australians, is almost too massive to comprehend.

The glue binding all these movements together is identity politics. The extremists are white, male and western, and the people they are trying to recruit to their thinly veiled anti-social reactionary causes share much of their identity - this demographic has been labelled in various countries as "frat", "bro", "lad", "chav" and "bogan". While the majority may not profess to share the extremists' politics, the functional differences between them and the fringe are blurred if they take part of the same activities.

In this context, it is supremely difficult to educate a certain type of young white man about the nature of his privilege, because so much of his self image is bound up in believing he is right about everything, even those things he actually knows very little about. Hopefully it's not going to take a tragedy for these otherwise intelligent, empathetic and compassionate citizens to see the light.

15 comments:

  1. Yes, oh yes, le evil white man is the source of all the problems in the world.
    Drink burning napalm.

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  2. Ah, the towering intellect of the white supremacist.

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    1. I don't know why you refer to not wanting to be a minority as "supremacy". What moral obligation do you think exists to force all Europeans to become minorities on lands they settled and countries they formed the legal foundations of for their own people where nothing existed previously? Can you justify it at all, Marxist?

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    2. No one's forcing Europeans to become a minority. Their own birth rate is doing that already.

      Nations become stronger with immigration, and their cultures are strengthened with diversity. It's a basic of biology dude, vive la difference.

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    3. No, importation of cheaper laborers is making them a minority. The Japanese aren't becoming a minority in their country and their replacement rate is a negative number. No nation you can name was improved by immigration, Marxist; nor by diversity; both of these things breed discontent and conflict; also, I have a degree in biology, do you? Because it says nothing of the sort, you mental fucking defective.

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    4. USA, Australia, Canada, England, France... all improved by immigration and diversity, both economically and culturally.

      Biodiversity is a universal positive in biology, increasing production and disease resistance, and decreasing the prevalence of parasites. Thousands of studies prove this. You have a degree in stupidity.

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  3. Sorry M0nty but I don't see it as racist. how many Aboriginals play AFL, how many play for the Swans but only Goodes is booed?
    Why is he booed because he is a tosser.
    A racist isn't selective in only booing one aboriginal.

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  4. Homer, you are wrong. Goodes gets booed because he stands up for himself. White racists don't mind Aboriginal players as long as they shut up and know their place. Once they start getting "uppity" and talking about issues, however, the old racist attitudes come out from certain white people.

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  5. He doesn't get uppity he is simply a tosser.

    He put on a war dance after a scoring a goal towards Carlton fans.

    This was VERY provocative. Any action taken?
    Not a chance

    He is simply a sportsman on the way down and behaving like it.

    Racists do not simply boo ONE aboriginal!

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  6. think you better look up GamerGate a little closer and #notyourshield. Gamergate is not just white males but a diverse group. And it was started because journos were colluding to push the industry in a certain way (helping friends and lovers) rather than reporting the truth, hence its diversity

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  7. He was one man doing a dance with an imaginary spear, Homer, facing tens of thousands of white people, some of whom have been vilifying him for a long time now. What were you afraid of, gangs of copycat Aboriginal youths spearing gubbas on the train? The reaction to his dance has been extremely silly.

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  8. As for Gamergate, the reason it failed was that it was at its heart misogynist and nasty, and the contradictions between the extreme hatreds of its hardcore and the milder annoyances of the mainstream meant that over time it lost what little coherence it had. Anyone who still subscribes to the fiction that there was a conspiracy to promote a journo's ex-girlfriend stamps themselves as one of those deluded hardcore fools.

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  9. MUH SOGGY KNEES

    MUH RACISM

    fucking cuck

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  10. awe crap, im a horrible person. but not as bad as arch cuck paul montgomery. "Nations become stronger with immigration, and their cultures are strengthened with diversity. It's a basic of biology dude, vive la difference." citation, plz.

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  11. It was provocative M0nty. In football I would have given him a yellow card.

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