But it's not irrelevant. It seems like you want to ignore parts of the situation because it doesn't fit the narrative of gamers by in large being alt righters. But everything that happens DOES matter, and it all can influence a person's views. Yes, it's true that some people who identify as pro-gamergate also had a problem with women or non-white males being protagonists in video games. But those are not the only views of those who identify as pro-gamergate. If I drew a venn diagram, those who held these views and those who supported gamergate are not the same circle. If you're not willing to see and admit that, then I don't know if continuing this conversation is worth it. Like the video described, you're looking at one table of deplorable people, and casting prejudice against the other 99 tables at that banquet hall. You are doing the exact same thing you claim to be against.
Im telling you that the issue that sparked the outrage and what the movement actually became are completely different and that the woman game developer dating someone who reviewed games was irrelevant to that movement.
Of course I'm not talking about the entire gaming community because thankfully the entire gaming community isnt made of a bunch of white people, but you know what portion of the gaming community I'm talking about.
You're the group at the small table that still thinks it was about shady review practices while the rest of the room were angry about being called racist and sexist for acting like a bunch of racist and sexist. If your a gamer that got offended by what was said about the gaming community, there's a good chance that you are apart of that racist sexist group they were talking about. Everyone else understood what those publications meant when they said what they said.
It's like saying trump supporters were about "draining the swamp" when clearly that movement became about racism. Draining the swamp is not relevant to what trump supporters represent today.
Like how the star wars drama is becoming less about TLJ being a shytty movie and more about attacking feminism.
If you heard about gamergate while it was happening but you had no idea what started it, you would think that it was about "SJWs" interfering in gaming.
Racism and sexism is a bigger problem in the gaming community than you're willing to admit. Dont believe me? Put a mic on and go play any random game online and get called a ****** real quick. Go to any gaming forum and suggest that the next protagonist for any game series should be a black man, watch the reaction you get.