Gamergate's fickle hero: The dark opportunism of Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos

A recurring theme of the Gamergate movement is that it's not about harassment or misogyny, and that the harassers are a minor fringe in the movement, or even false flag conspiracies by anti-Gamergate trolls. Here he is in May of this year saying that video games “attract damaged people.” He made a link between the Isla Vista, California, sexist killer Elliot Rodger and violent video games. By any consideration, Milo Yiannopoulos is exactly the kind of man you'd expect Gamergate to be against: someone who thinks gamers are losers and that video games make you violent sociopathic killers. It started with a column called “Feminist Bullies Tearing the Video Game Industry Apart,” where he wrote: It's easy to mock video gamers as dorky loners in yellowing underpants. End of story.” It is pretty convenient that he would change his mind from blaming gamers for mass murder in May to deeming them an oppressed underclass in September, but simply attaching himself to Gamergate and writing column after column slamming feminists and the “terrified liberal media” and its supposed campaign against video games seemed to have steeled his reputation with the crowd.