- Anil Dash is a prolific blogger and entrepreneur who has been around since the very beginnings of the internet. Currently, besides managing the businesses he helped co-found, he is also a contributor to Wired and to Medium's own publication The Message. Anil is well-known for championing social justice causes and left-leaning viewpoints on current events.
- One thing Anil is not, has never been, and as far as I know, has never claimed to be, is a journalist.
- Let alone a games journalist.
Will these young thugs get killed by police? Be demonized by conservatives? Vilified by media? http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/18/keene/DxaL6d2HARAHNiTvsBDWtK/story.html?hootPostID=7ab04cc3fa4f62ca48ba3d80329cd181 … pic.twitter.com/PixCssgUyD- This is a quite typical post for Anil. And, of course, it is quite quickly followed by the typical response to such posts.
- What follows is singularly tedious attack on Anil, as the first responder calls in a few friends, and it is frankly irrelevant to the topic of this story. However, things start getting interesting as of this tweet:
.@TheBrandonMorse @anildash @PDugna @BenHowe @joshtpm Anil, is bullying cool? Why are you silent? #GamerGate pic.twitter.com/omH1ZB6gCh- The calls for bullying from journalists (but important to note: not games journalists) listed above have been most unacceptable and immature indeed... But what do they have to do with Anil? He's not even a game journalist! Why should Anil be required to take a stance on this? And who is this person bringing something completely off-topic up in the discussion of Anil's piece?
- Mike Cernovich is a Los Angeles-based attorney, who apparently makes a living selling juices designed for fitness-minded men. However, he's also much more than that. There's some information in the following website, but based on my informal research, this barely scratches the surface on the dude.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mike CernovichOn Friday night, Ken from Popehat referred to me in a post about Michael Shermer's incredibly ridiculous letter supporting Dinesh D'Souza. I found out about it from a tweet by some muscleheaded dumbass named Mike Cernovich and I quickly realized that I just have to introduce my readers to him.- UPDATE: @MattBinder went through Cernovich's Twitter history and found some quite disturbing stuff. You can read all about it here.
- Recently, Mike Cernovich has also been one of the most vocal supporters of #GamerGate. One might even call him a member of #GamerGate's vanguard, given how he has been threatening to use his powers as an attorney to doxx "SJWs", calling it "the way to deal with them". A screencap can be seen below.
How good of you to offer Anita 1k to give you her doxx. How are you not disbarred yet? @PlayDangerously pic.twitter.com/ZHeC0YuaNb- When pressured over these statements, Cernovich has, however, stated that he only threatened to doxx people who engaged in "illegal activities".
- He has also seemingly been going around trying to get media personalities who champion social justice causes - the so-called "SJWs" - to take a stance on #GamerGate. Even when, as in Anil's case, these people have absolutely nothing to do with game journalism, and so, by the #GamerGate supporters' own view on the movement (that it relates solely to breaches of ethics within game journalism) should not be forced to take a stance - or even aknowledge the movement, if they do not wish so.
@PlayDangerously don't pretend you give a shit about bullying when you support bullying women out of gaming.
.@anildash I gave $1,000 to stop bullying. Now call Gawker out for supporting bullying. https://twitter.com/PlayDangerously/status/523666656527003649 … #GamerGate- Mr. Cernovich's commitment to ending bullying is surely a positive note in all of the drama that has been going on around #GamerGate, and has been part of a larger response by #GamerGate supporters after the aforementioned calls for bullying.
- However, does that give him the right to demand Anil to take a stance? If #GamerGate is actually exclusively about games journalism, no, it doesn't.
- @PlayDangerously you're full of shit until you speak up about GamerGate's nonstop attacks on women.
- .@anildash How am I full of shit? I donated $1,000 already; will forward email to you if you like. You're up. https://twitter.com/PlayDangerously/status/523698749743190018 …
- No matter how noble Cernovich's action may have been, he seems to be playing the "I donated" card a bit too much, specially when the matter of women being harassed is not helped in any way by his donation to a fund to help prevent bullying among children.
- It is almost as if what Twitter user @michaelk42, chiming in on the discussion, has to say is true.
@PlayDangerously It's more like you bought a $1,000 bullying credit to make up for your own. @anildash
As seen on
blogs.houstonpress.com
