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I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.

And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.

It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.

And then they came for the rest of you.

They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.

Maybe one day people will learn.

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Sarah Brown
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@Jo Walsh Yeah. In the uk it all sprang from the SITP crowd, who thought they were all far cleverer than they were and so got easily used as useful idiots by the hard right.
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marlies
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i remember. seeing that happen to you really woke me up to the threat this ‘new’ strategy on the side of the transphobes posed to us. Spent a long time feeling like somewhat of a Cassandra on that unfortunately. And like Cassandra, have been proven right the hard way. You can probably relate to that quite a bit.
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Sarah Brown
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@marlies :tblverified: Yeah. I can.

These days, my advice to any trans person wanting to get involved in party politics is “run the fuck away”.

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Dave
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so many horrid memories from that time; A few for myself, many for friends and colleagues.
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I wasn't very online then, so GG missed me entirely. I had to learn about it after the fact. And it was actually really hard to learn about it for a while? One person likened it to cliques at a highschool lunch table which sounds insane, but for a while that was the only video around. Wasn't until I watched Innuendo Studios's videos on it that I actually got some concrete understanding of the events.

I think some of that contributes to this happening over and over again.

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Jesse Cohn
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Anything published on this?
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Sarah Brown
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@Jesse Cohn I wrote about it a bit on LJ at the time. I think it's probably gone now. There's a 6 month gap in my memory from the nervous breakdown it caused, so documenting it wasn't high on my list of priorities.

I've since managed to get a modicum of revenge on some of the people involved. Not willing to go into further details.

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Jesse Cohn
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Thanks -- I'll have to look further into them (a cursory googling isn't very helpful). I seem to have missed a really important chapter in the cultural-political history of our times.
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