It’s like, at first, it was relatively apolitical except maybe the New Atheists who got popular by criticizing the mostly right-wing religious nutjobs.
But then, I think around the mid-2010s, it started to get super political. Suddenly, everybody started to talk about how the evil wacky feminazi SJWs were trying to destroy gaming and our culture?
At this point, it seems like many people have snapped out of it and are making fun of these “anti-woke” crazies, but what materially caused this phenomenon to happen in the first place and why does it still persist to an extent?
I was looking through the thread to see when this would come up. Yes, a big part of it was that nerd culture was deliberately targeted by the far right. Before that they were the target of the New Athiest grifters which was the progenitor of the “facts and logic” bullshit. People are pointing out good reasons why that culture was considered a good target, but its important to realize that there was also a coordinated campaign