Back in 2014, Gamasutra’s news editor, Leigh Alexander, wrote an article that would be one of the opening salvos from the social justice left against a developing GamerGate movement. What would later become known as the “woke left” had infected gaming journalism and it was pretty clear that the cabal of radical leftists in the elitist circles didn’t like gamers.
As such, Alexander released an article titled “Gamers’ don’t have to be your audience. ‘Gamers’ are over,” to the applause and echoes of many of her ilk in gaming journalism circles. Alexander not only looked down on the audience she’d been writing articles for, but she questioned why she was even doing what she did:
‘Games culture’ is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online ‘wars’ about social justice or ‘game…
