Bans from the Blizzard Totalbiscuit thing are just
User Banned (1 Week): Downplaying the impact and influence of hate and harassment movements.
I don't think those have anything to do with gamer gate. The people in question were fired over their choice of words, not because of a 4 year old hate movement. You can blame conservatives/people with socially (far?)-right ideologies, maybe, but the ultimate blame lies with the employees who unfortunately couldn't keep their cool.
User banned (duration pending): downplaying the impact of a hate movement as inconsequential
Wow, Era showing how classy they are today, disrespecting the dead and the long a fit over some inconsequential bullshit
User banned (duration pending): downplaying the impact and history of a hate movement
GG tried to brand themselves for being about "ethics in gaming journalism" (which was a cover), this is what TB supported. Not the fight against "SJW":s that is movement against minorities and women. I do think there's a difference. It's more important to me that I've seen and heard him stand up against transphobia in example and challenge sexism than his stubborn defense of his participation in giving GG any spotlight. I can be critical of him while seeing the actual person at the same time and that person wasn't a monster. That person wasn't against LGBTQ, women or people of color. "Let me make this unequivocally clear for even the most narrowminded person who listens, I'm in 100% in favor of transgender equality. I'm 100% in favor of treating human beings like human beings. It doesn't get any fucking simpler, this is 2015 and we are not a bunch of savages. Now if some of you are not okay with that, the door is to the left." His words after the mocking and hate Laura Kate Dale got after her appearance on the podcast. Source, it's around the 22.40 mark: Sigh, he's been called a monster in this very thread. He did a lot of good for gamers but also took stances against bigotry. I'm not gonna ignore that, you are free to do so. And I do agree with you, it was his failure that he didn't condemn GG properly and distance himself from it. I agree that he was prideful, arrogant and stubborn too. Blizzard is doing a beautiful thing here and they have my full support for this.
User Banned (3 Days): Attacks against the community.
Class act from Blizzards side. Threads like these also serves as a reminder how much disrespectful trash followed along from Neogaf. Disgusting.
User banned (duration pending): downplaying the impact and history of a hate movement
Finally! After lots of pages, someone ectually makes some sense! This pretty much sums up what i think about this subject. I'd like to add to it though... I think TB was reasonable. He used his mind, not his feelings when he argued. In my opinion, he was more center, than left/right, and I have huge respect for that. Why? Because over the last few years, politics in gaming have become so god damned polarizing. Both TB and Colin Moriarty is like an island of peace from all the yelling from both sides. Because they argue reason, not feelings. (most of the time anyway.) while the rest of the gaming community either shouts "SJW" or "racist" to eachother, they didnt. Is it bad to think that both sides have good points? does that make me a SJW or a racist? I know for a fact that i am neither. Did TB make a wrong choice from time to time? sure, but who doesnt? I would very much like to remind the leftleaning people here, that their side used to be for forgiveness. It seems, judging from the 11 first pages here, that they are no longer that. What does that remind you of? perhaps the religious right a few years back. they coudnt forgive and move on. they HAD to have their day of Judgement. Just like the left are today. This is why its sad that he is gone. He brought some sort of balance to all this. So yeah, i think its a good thing Blizzard is doing here. He deserves to be remembered, and his family taken care of.
User banned (duration pending): downplaying a hate movement, false equivalencies
You are not much better Dude even if you think what you do is out of good intentions it's still exactly as despicable as what they do.
User banned (duration pending): Concern trolling. History of trolling.
mean, you know some communities are starting to call this forum a hate group right? It sounds absurd but when you read threads like this one or the one about mccain withdrawing from his cancer treatment, you can start to see where they get it..
User banned (duration pending): Downplaying a hate movement
Yeah, so what. The man is dead, he left behind a family. Just because he supported GG doesn't mean you should be disrespectful.
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downplaying history
