No one who cares about real racism works for Breitbart. Come the fuck on, it's a white supremecist propaganda site.
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Richard Lewis calls out Polygon, Waypoint and Kotaku live on stage during speech (eSports Awards 2019)
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I never said "you said kotaku is a trash publication," i said your mindset was that sentiment, because that's what your responses are giving off.
But you didn't.
2 post in 2 years.
I'm sure this gamer is a gamer like us gamers like you and me, right fellow gamer?
Nah, I would say that pretty much all articles that Ive seen from that writter were cringe worthy. But I can see it being subjective, so I'll add "imho" to it.
What is not much subjective tho, is the idea that apologizing after receiving backslash is easy. If there was no backslash, they wouldnt apologize at all.
So I wouldnt consider their apology as sincere
Imagine so desperately wanting to find reasons to hate these sites so much you end up supporting an ex-Breitbart guy. Woof.
Everyone who writes for Breitbart is a nazi. Like, straight-up. You do not write for Breitbart if you are not a nazi. Even if you don't write explicit nazi shit for Breitbart. The only way to be fine with writing for a white supremacist propaganda site is to be a white supremacist. There is just no way to spin this.
But yeah, let's keep talking about how Kotaku are trash. Remember that article they once posted? TRASH!
You can really tell a lot about people by what their priorities are.
But yeah, let's keep talking about how Kotaku are trash. Remember that article they once posted? TRASH!
You can really tell a lot about people by what their priorities are.
If you're not told that w/e your mindset was that allowed you to think that you could publish articles like was wrong, how the hell are you going to own up to that fuck up and apologize for it? I don't know why they published it, but clearly the person who signed off on it was looking at it in a way that didn't raise alarms. Sometimes you have to be recalibrated by being called out.
That's just a weird thing to say. Of course if you get backlash you're more inclined to apologize. It's a bunch of people saying "hey this is fucked up and weird and really really wrong!"
Andy Ngo is gay but still hangs out with right wing terrorists and provides them with journalist kill lists.
They already hate the sites, there's no want about it.
They just want a veneer for the actual reasons they hate the sites. "Ethics in gaming journalism" and such.
Well said. I've been in the loop with this field since well before Twitch was a thing, and that's how I know Lewis earned his credibility here over a sizeable and important body of work, in a way that the token coverage from the generalist press (which typically revolves around gossip about outlying cases of individual misconduct; so, the same kind of paltry interest you see from Era) decidedly hasn't. Lewis is abrasive to a fault, but his remarks here are quite fair.
To a certain extent, the old cultural divide between the PC and console worlds that was visible in the press back in the 1990s was never really resolved when the media coverage surrounding them merged. We're seeing the long-tail effect of this in a world where the PC/e-sports side of the industry has its own self-sufficient media ecosystem (on Reddit, Twitch, and so on) that doesn't have much use for the big magazines that somehow get so much attention here. It's not incorrect to suppose that the bulk of the coverage from the generalist press is conspicuously from the perspective of an outsider; it's painfully obvious to anyone who knows the field well and lives in it. The framework of the perpetual culture war since 2014 is a latecoming offshoot and honestly a big distraction, not helped by the efforts of other, more reactionary outsiders to exploit existing social divisions and distrust as a recruitment tool.
There is no nuance to be had in conspiratorial dog whistling, which is what the Lewis says in the OP.
If you want to have an enlightened discussion about ethics in games journalism (which is the essence of what he's talking about), that... well... yeah. Maybe that's not gonna happen.
1. Ardent supporter of GamerGate
2. Anti-refugee
3. Breitbart writer
4. Uses ableist slurs
5. Pretty blatantly right-wing
6. Anti-feminist
7. Has an extreme and demonstrated bias against left-wing websites, particularly in video games, and particularly Kotaku
I'd argue that presenting his speech here as legitimate is pretty ridiculous given that he has demonstrated that his views on Kotaku are informed by his own racism, sexism, and general bigotry.
Almost all of the people in this thread who are attacking him are attacking him for being a bigot, not for being in eSports.
And Milo is gay, does that justify their actions or change anything about Mobyduck's post?
Thanks for the clarification.
So he's two bi's - bisexual and bigoted
The charitable reading here is that you didn't know about his past at Breitbart and are now trying to avoid looking either clueless or bigoted. If so, please stop; you're only going to have people assume the worst of you. Just admit you didn't know (I didn't know anything about him, either), and move on.
Of course, the other possibility is that you genuinely think the voice of a former writer for a Nazi-adjacent propaganda site needs to be heard in the context of criticising some of the few remotely progressive videogame sites. If that's the case, carry on.
Hold the phone, minorities can hold all the views that non-minorities can? Bigotry isn't the straight white man's superpower?
People not taking it seriously enough are a big part of why alt-right people are able to flourish in the industry, as Richard Lewis and Boogie have.
I'm not saying fuck this guy because he wrote at breitbart, just that it adds a lot of context, in my mind, to a vague rant. With very little context I'd just assume that his righteous anger is something that I'd be on board with — gate keeping, corporate takeovers, and racism are bad. Knowing that he wrote for breitbart means he no longer gets the benefit of the doubt from me.
that article looks good, but I don't see how it speaks very strongly to his character in a way that writing for breitbart doesn't.
Regrdless, I might agree with his stance if I knew more about the situation. But I'm just left feeling skeptical after learning that the person accepting this award was a breitbart contributor.
Apologies also don't erase wrongdoing or bad decisions. PewDiePie apologized for his bad choices and nobody here is going to say that absolves him from sin (nor should they), so why does Kotaku's apologies have that power? Posting borderline child porn is a bad look in my opinion and people have a right to view Kotaku in a lower light because of it, regardless of the editorial addition to the piece. I'm not equating Kotaku to PewDiePie at all, of course. They're completely different situations. Kotaku has the responsibility to report the news and entertain their audience with quality content and for the most part they succeed. However, it is important to recognize their flaws instead of incessantly defending them because we like their content.
There are people who dislike Kotaku and other gaming websites and have no associations with GamerGate or any bigoted movements and they should be heard out without getting hounded on. We should be skeptical of those who have a vehement opposition to websites like Kotaku and refuse to elaborate why, perhaps because they would face infractions for doing so. However, disliking something can easily boil down to simple subjectivity and personal tastes. It's unfortunate to see this discussion become more hostile than it should have, but that is something inescapable on public Internet forums.
I guess. Had no idea who Richard Lewis was until this thread and Boogie to me is just that guy I saw 1-2 skit videos of YEARS ago of him being overly angry.
I read the odd Polygon, Kotaku and Waypoint for the odd game related article here and there, have no idea about what their "beef" for e-celebs is.
It's nothing at all, honestly. Lewis has a history of disliking these websites as a result of his pro-GamerGate stance, so anything he has to say about them is inherently untrustworthy.
He wrote pro-GamerGate and anti-refugee stories.
PewDiePie has numerous allegations of racism.
Making that dislike known in a thread about a Breitbart nazi employing the age-old nazi tactic of attacking the press with obvious conspiracy theories does paint quite the interesting picture though.
Sorry, but I'm not buying this.
Today I learned there are entire twitter accounts dedicated to posting comments from Era.
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Geoff is getting canceled too?! Will the madness never end?!
Also I would think today would be more remembered as the day you've learnt about incest ships and porn
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Honestly, I thought that this just someone plainly posting something that happened without any commentary and it wasn't fair to read that much into the OP's intent, but then they kept posting.
Sort of
with a 25/75 weight split this means the panel is doing most of the choosing for awards like 'journo of the year.'
They actually screenshotted this post instead
And apparently that's a galaxy brain take. Who wouldve thought.
This is nothing. There are entire forums dedicated to stalking, doxxing and sending death threats to members and staff here. Twitter accounts like this are the edge of that web.
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Hey it's better to actually assess things critically instead of not thinking through on the topic at all. Most of te trash posts simply said they knew he was from Breitbart so they don't need to know anything else about him.
I don't like Lewis but since this is about his impact on esports I'm going to make a value judgement based on his contributions there.
I'm sure you would also view companies not paying their employees assholes? What about tournament orngaizers not paying out their prize pools? Or how about tounrmanet organizers running events so poorly team managers have to juggle shit at the last minute in countries they aren't fluent in the language? What about players being kicked off teams with verbal promises not being honored? Or players getting black balled by in their home country because of arrangements only made verbally team managers didn't approve of how they left the team?
What about teams or 3rd parties gaming the system to rob people of their money through betting sites?
There are various degrees of being an asshole and hurting someone's financial security is more important than hurting someone's reputation and in most cases Lewis has had such incidents backfire on himself because most people understand he is an asshole.
All you are doing is suggesting you don't care how any thing gets fixed so people's lives are materially better.
Waypoint specifically has made some important contributions to the esports scene more than Lewis cares to admit. But if he wants to call out their mistakes as well as the mistakes of the other two it isn't unreasonable to take a minute and refelct on whether or not they have made more significant contributions in improving esports than Lewis did.
He worked for breitbart, arguable a white suprematist and fat right haven. His opinion or whatever he does does not mean anything to me. I will be looking for his name from now on and ignore everything he produces.
Tbh after reading OP's responses I don't think they posted this thread in bad faith.
This is something that has been going in Neogaf. Some people take forumwarrioring too seriously.
Stardestroyer.net, Somethingawful and survivorsucks all had wars with other communities online. It's really silly.
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Hi everyone, I think you guys spend a lot of time on the internet and have misread things that I've not even thought to imply.
I just wanted to provide an added part of his bio so there's a bigger context here.
Richard's a cunt.
I wouldn't bother giving attention to the offsite folks who spend their time trying to find posts to be outraged about.