As befits a man who has authored a book called 365 Ways To Drive A Liberal Crazy – opening gag: “Why was Obama so disappointed when he went to a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats? Being a Muslim, he thought there would be more romance” – it was only a matter of time before James Delingpole saw fit to wade into GamerGate.
For those who haven’t heard of this (and this Mole envies you), GamerGate is an astroturfed outrage which claims to be about corruption in video games journalism, but which actually is a bunch of players railing against imaginary “social justice warriors” polluting their pastime with ideologies like “feminism”. (One female games developer at the centre of it has had a particularly awful time.) A common accusation is that there is a conspiracy within the games media, as journalists “push” their socialist agenda on gamers without their consent. It’s part McCarthyism, part-Tea Party, and perfect for Delingpole’s tried-and-true tactic of opportunistically stoking a fire beneath furious right-wingers while winding up lefties at the same time.
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