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by Morphling 4301 days ago
First it was feminist agenda to transform gaming into something that fit their narrow world view, but since that failed pretty hard and even the most brain washed white knights are starting to see through their ruse especially in the light of the scandal around the depression quest.

Now as a last resort all these same people are trying to paint the word "gamer" as something bad and undesirable.

I'm not really surprised if they come up with a new term that they try to define with their agenda, gamers just have to be smart enough to see through their bullshit.

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The "scandal around depression quest" is a bunch of lurid sexism, nothing more [1]. And "white knight" is a term invented by Redditors and not used by intelligent people. It may surprise you that plenty of men don't think of ourselves as part of some kind of "team man" fraternity where we have to stick up for "our side", and can't object to harassment of women, just as women also do.

[1] a bit more discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267425

There are plenty of intelligent Redditors. There are plenty of intelligent people with a differing opinion than you.
There are indeed intelligent Redditors. However, people who use the phrase "white knights" are at best seriously misguided, and usually not among the intelligent subset. It's just a slur, not anything with content, like calling someone who acts in a way you deem insufficiently masculine a "pansy" or "fag".