If you grit your teeth and do a search for #GamerGate and #Ferguson together on Twitter, you will find Tweet after Tweet from worried #GamerGaters earnestly imploring their comrades not to make any connections between the two hashtags. Why? Because they know that those who cross the streams are likely to Tweet things like the following.

This what happens when #GamerGaters try to make sense of what is happening in Ferguson.

#GamerGate is more relevant to me than Ferguson because, well, I'm not a black Missourian, but I am a gamer. — K̲/Kull the Rabbit (@Klohinx) November 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/SHREKFLEX/status/537070193311494144

https://twitter.com/fireye47/status/537088458406125568

https://twitter.com/i_z_e_l_s/status/537074547531321344

https://twitter.com/i_z_e_l_s/status/537152470313480192

https://twitter.com/Noin007/status/537095206630199297

#Ferguson is a great example of how SJW mindset just leads to irrational behavior #GamerGate — Shota Loli Trap (@ShotaLoliTrap) November 25, 2014

SJW's looting and setting fire to stores, yeah you're really showing you're "peaceful". #GamerGate #Ferguson — Shota Loli Trap (@ShotaLoliTrap) November 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/PKtheHedgehog/status/537104422472400896

If you ever compare #GamerGate to those savages rioting and attacking police in #Ferguson please fuck right off. — PettanPettan (@PettanPettan) November 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/MaxSkyFan/status/537184055004266496

https://twitter.com/PrestariumRetar/status/537273589616365570

https://twitter.com/ItalyGG/status/537276021096329217

https://twitter.com/triumfantloser/status/537290714896674816

Oh, and yes, these are all genuine #GamerGaters; check out their timelines for proof, and you’ll also see some of the terrible racist crap some of them have been tweeting and retweeting.

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