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DissidentRage wrote

Gamer culture flourished in an era of unfettered white masculinity that routinely made fun of others and formed in a shadow that hadn't yet been pierced by the light of the outside world. Add the highly competitive nature of the multiplayer scene, and you end up with a subculture that not only was inherently built on white male privilege, but reinforced the idea of superiority through subjugation. The fact that it's also built on tech that has only become more accessible in the past decade has inflated the average gamer's ego. Anyone who perused gaming forums during the 90s/early 00s would be familiar with the level of snark and the types of in-jokes in the gaming community.

The trend toward the right is the natural progression of a subculture that was coincidentally built out of the same people who typically fell victim to reactionary politics, which had once lived in the shadows and now must reconcile its demons with the rest of society as the cost of increased visibility and publicity.

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