Yeah that is sad. Recently I saw a crossover with EC and PBS idea channel and many people in the comments refesed to watch that episode because Dan came out against #GamerGate.MarsAtlas said:You know what is probably the saddest thing I've seen in all of this? Pro-GamerGate is now about defending GamerGate and attacking anti-GGers, and anti-GG is about attacking GGers. Case in point, we've all probably seen Extra Credits. Dan made a post to his twitter which was a calm, rational, non-insulting question to pro-GGers concerned about journalistic ethics[footnote]http://t.co/dY3TG6B3yU[/footnote], essentially saying what I've been trying to say for about seven weeks now, but better. He appealed to the good-intentioned, intelligent people who do exist in abundance within GG, and what was the very first response to that I saw? "Fuck you" Just... don't even care anymore. He's about as offensive as 2% milk, and the immediate response somebody had was "fuck you" to somebody who they probably very much liked a lot the day before...
Thing about that is that yeah, twitter is one of the worst places to have that discussion, it is one of the few places having it. The Escapist is one of the few sites that actually is having a discussion about it. When #GamerGate was in it's infancy many sites shut down the discussion, only fanning the flames....but a person says a very rational, practical thing about GamerGate, saying that despite the admirable aims, the well is poisoned and its both impractical and counter-productive, and that these people, who he stresses are good people, should try something other than Twitter
One of the main reasons I reasons I respect the hell out of this sight is because they are having a dialogue about it rather than just shooing it off their sight. And to Dan's "What has #GamerGate accomplished?" question I'd have to say spotlight problems that The Escapist, Destructoid and GameFront has fixed. (as I said in the video)
But to reiterate my point about this whole Damn thing. Both 'sides' don't want to win, they want the other side to loose.