>>> I know all about what happened. .... If they’d have kept it clean they’d have a case, .... <<<
God help us all with one-sided restrictions to ‘keep it clean’ when going into a fight. Let me guess, you don’t “cheat”. ever. gaming.
Expanded to the real world, the Left took every advantage while the Right still think they’re going into a fair fight.
Only time I ever cheat gaming is when we’ve decided a game of Illuminati will be played with the cheating rules, which still makes it not cheating really. Because cheating makes things boring.
But this isn’t really cheating, this is about how to actually win. Going shrill gets results, but it’s not really a win. If you notice where the Left really wins is where they remain calm and patient. The whole gay rights movement really started gaining traction when they stopped pushing so hard, when they had less odd costumes at Stonewall and more just trying to get people treated like people they started winning. When they were shrill they were weirdos and nobody wanted anything to do with them, when they went calm the Right went shrill, got easily labeled as bigots, and have lost that war.
As soon as the guys in Gamergate went to epithets they were shrill and they lost. They gave the other side the ability to calmly point out the vileness of the attacks (because they were quite vile) and gave away the field. They started with valid complaints, but they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by being incapable of presenting their arguments calmly and without malice.