{"id":26960,"date":"2014-10-18T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/they-say-they-want-politics-out-of-video-game\/"},"modified":"2014-10-18T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:54:15","slug":"they-say-they-want-politics-out-of-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/they-say-they-want-politics-out-of-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They say they want politics out of video game coverage? OK, now we\u2019re getting somewhere. <br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBy politics, the voices calling for ethics reform really mean \u201cprogressive\u201d politics. The so-called corruption that needs to be rooted out is a focus on \u201cdiversity\u201d and the \u201cmagnitude of the human experience.\u201d It should be no surprise that the outlets and voices specifically targeted by GamerGate are progressive. Baldwin was the first of several notable opportunists who, despite caring little for video games or video game culture, were more than happy to contribute to any movement that counted \u201cSJWs\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s \u201csocial justice warriors,\u201d for those of you out of the loop \u2014 as enemies. That \u201csocial justice warrior\u201d is considered a pejorative at all speaks volumes about the motivations behind much of GamerGate and its fixation on progressive voices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/10\/17\/6996601\/on-gamergate-a-letter-from-the-editor\">On GamerGate: A letter from the editor | Polygon<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">wilwheaton<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say they want politics out of video game coverage? OK, now we\u2019re getting somewhere. \u00a0 By politics, the voices calling for ethics reform really mean \u201cprogressive\u201d politics. The so-called corruption that needs to be rooted out is a focus on \u201cdiversity\u201d and the \u201cmagnitude of the human experience.\u201d It should be no surprise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-70Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}