David

Let’s pause the Zoe Quinn part just for a second, since now we’re getting into some other specific stuff. So Chris definitely you should address however you view what Mercedes is referring to with this incitement to dogpile.

Chris

Yup, I have the tweets right here. It was on January 5th. Sarah Nyberg, otherwise known as srhbutts on twitter, she does a great job compiling the things that Gamergate says — in their own words — and then rebroadcast them.So, people can see exactly what Gamergate is. I believe Mercedes has referred to her as a troll. That’s not actually trolling, that’s just showing people who other people are.

Oh boy, where to begin. For starters, we are talking about a person who has openly claimed to be a pedophile

who believes that the only problem is society, not consent

even going as low as age 4

She also likes to spend her time on twitter talking about how awful doxxing is 739 times since Oct 3rd to be precise (which is around ~3.4 times a day) and openly criticizes and mocks people over it

But when she thinks that it’s for a noble cause — defined by her as sending death/rape threats and not, let’s say pedophilia — it can be used for good.

So yeah Chris, I can totally see why you would put all your trust and faith in such a person. It’s also veeeery convenient that what this person does on Twitter is not trolling, it’s just showing people who other people are. But what Mike Cernovich did, well that’s just harassment. There’s a word in the dictionary that you might want to look up sometime

Lastly I would like to point out, that even though, according to our credible source Chris here, srhbutts only ever rebroadcasts things to people. This time she dogpiled Mercedes, putting a burden on her to denounce a board that has actively targeted Gamergaters.

So anyways, Sarah Butts tweeted @TheMercedesXXX with a dot, so this could be considered dogpiling because it was a dot-reply it was not an @-reply. Sarah Nyberg tweeted if you’re really against harassment in GG, use your influence to get Baphomet off of 8chan, it’s endangering lives. I responded to you with a @-reply, not a dot-reply, that’s not dogpiling, that’s speaking to someone. The only people who can see that, are people who follow both you and me. I’m willing to bet that’s a pretty small group of people.

Funny how quickly Chris shifts the attention from the fact that Sarah dogpiled Mercedes to him not dogpiling her since he didn’t use the dot. Well, I’m sorry Chris, you might not have perpetrated the dogpiling yourself, but you have clearly approved of the dogpiling done by Sarah.

You can talk all you want about how this is not the same, but you were actively participating in the dogpiling.

I responded with, I will second this call, prove Baphomet and GG aren’t connected, call for their removal, lots of GG follow you.

Also what you were asking of Mercedes is ridiculous. If you want baphomet removed talk to the site admin or the authorities. Instead you opted to dogpile on Mercedes trying to bait her into starting a fight with baphomet as she clearly and beautifully pointed out. It becomes more obvious a little further down. This was obvious bait and her reply to you should have been enough.

You are a voice and a face of Gamergate and this as you say, Gamergate is against harassment, Gamergate is not about harassment.

Just a minor point, if Mercedes is a voice and face of Gamergate and she says it is not about harassment, how come you don’t listen and believe her?

So, when this board Baphomet starts targeting GG targets and then all of a sudden they start exposing people’s personal information, mine included. I think it’s a perfectly legitimate thing to say to Gamergate, if they are truly against harassment to denounce a board that is targeting people that oddly enough 90% of which oppose Gamergate. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

I want you to read this last statement very carefully. Chris admits that baphomet has been targeting not only GG but also antis. This is exactly what Gamergate has been saying for months now. For those of you who don’t know, there are currently at least three independent troll groups involved in causing all kinds of havoc on both sides (and other venues independent of GG).

There is /baphomet/ also known as baph, who have a board on 8chan and are just overall unpleasant fellows who love to cause shit for the lulz.

Then there is Ayy lmao aka. AyyTeam or just Ayy, these are mostly just shitposters who love to put Ayy lmao on all the things.

And last but not least there is also the Gay Nigger Association of America also known as GNAA. Interestingly even Wikipedia — which people of Gamergate have come to appreciate for shoddy reporting— acknowledges the involvement of this group (but still somehow manages to blame all the harassment on Gamergate).

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nigger_Association_of_America#2010s

So — while I dunno where he has the 90% figure from — it wouldn’t surprise me at all if 90% of the people in baphomet opposed Gamergate. However since Chris acknowledges that a part of Gamergate also cares about ethics, maybe he will eventually come to the conclusion, that what he and his buddies are actually upset with, are the these trolls (and by doing so they might finally realize that they were wasting everyone’s time and energy). Baby steps towards the truth. But I’m not holding my breath.

Lastly I would like to share just one more tidbit about Chris’ behavior after the talk, because as you can imagine, a man of his caliber — who shows up to an interview like a slob and pretends to be well informed when he’s mostly been spouting uninformed nonsense — won’t let such an opportunity pass to shine as the provocateur at large that he is.

So after the debate lizzy tweeted two humorous remarks to both of them

which promoted this reply from Mercedes

which Chris followed up by doing this

Yup, he just told a woman of Puerto Rican descent that she’s a Nacho Shield…

Mercedes being the strong independent woman that she is didn’t let this sit on her.

to which Chris only had this to say…

So because she doesn’t know all of the in-jokes that he and his buddies in anti-Gamergate use to to make fun of women and minorities (aka people using #NotYourShield), she is to blame. This is literally victim blaming. It’s also worth noting, that he only ever used this expression once.

And if you think I’m reading to much into this, here’s one of his feminist buddies spelling it out for you

I rest my case.

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