How is "trash" racist? I mean, he's being an asshole for sure, but maybe not necessarily a racist asshole. Just saying.
Great post above mine anyway, it's what I've believed since the GamerGate crap blew up, tons of people enthusiastic enough about video games to make it their primary hobby and to be on forums like this just started saying they aren't gamers or whatever out of the blue, like, everyone was then trying to equate the term gamer with being a racist misogynist asshole instead of trying to show there are also people into this stuff who aren't like that and support efforts that try to clean up the trash and promote positivity in this hobby.
Like going "I play games. I'm not a gamer/I don't identify as a gamer!" - um, yes you are, if you play games, you can't dodge being a gamer, it's not the one thing that defines you as a person, you can be tons more things, tons more important things in your personal life, your professional life, your hobbies and interests, but you still are a gamer since all that means is that you play games, which you just said you do! So that alone should be proof enough that gamer != nazi or whatever since you are one of these two alone so stop speaking like they're synonymous words. There are millions upon millions upon millions upon millions of people who play games, of gamers, even if there are many millions of vocal asshat examples, from FGC members to popular youtubers to certain games' toxic communities (in which far from everyone who plays the games participates!) to your average idiot raging on whatever game's voice chat to a sick predator lurking in random MMORPGs looking for a victim, underage or otherwise, that's still a tiny minority of gamers considering the overall volume.
