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[flagged] Anita Sarkeesian, Video Game Critic, Cancels Speech After Threats of Massacre (nytimes.com)
27 points by llamataboot on Oct 15, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



At the time I write this, one of two other responses is, "good riddance." How does this make sense to anyone? How can anyone look at this kind of thuggish behavior and celebrate its results? I often disagree with Sarkeesian's critiques, but all of the abuse she has gotten is beyond the pale.

I could understand (though not condone) when there were one or two outspoken women complaining about being harassed were dismissed as provocateurs. That has not been the situation for some time. Would anyone here want to join a community that behaves like this?


A bunch of troll accounts were created to comment on this and related threads. We've banned them.

It's good to see that their comments were all downvoted before we got to them.


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Why?




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