Hello, Generation Gamer. You are beginning of the new way of things and the establishment hates you for it. They always have.

Here's the anti-gun lobby saying you murder everyone. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/video-games-gun-violence_n_3071632.html)

Here's the pope calling your recreation a sin. (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pope-condemns-violent-games/1100-6164659/)

Here's a Democrat saying you are aggressive. (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-clinton-on-violent-games/)

Here's are Republicans trying to sneak in a law that screws video game makers. (Page 24 http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tax_reform_executive_summary.pdf)

Here's a President saying you are all distracted idiots. (http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704566/president-obama-slams-video-games-blogs-ipads/)

And to really blow your socks off, here's parents, religious folk, and feminists unifying to say you guys are positively the worst people in history. (http://articles.latimes.com/2004/nov/24/nation/na-games24)

Are you seeing the pattern? It's simple: The official owners of our cultural narrative have been using you as their whipping boy for decades. Imagine the president, Republicans, Democrats, the church, feminists, and the anti-gun lobby ALL saying, in unison, for decades straight, that Jews are some vague problem preventing a brighter tomorrow. Anyone even remotely involved with such a statement would have been instantly defunded before the copy ever left the editor's room.

The ability to ignore such continuous hatred is truly a testament to the nature of gaming. The games you've been playing were so damned involving that the perpetual pogrom waged against you hasn't really appeared on your radar. And even if it did, the owners of culture have their own foes and wildly vary between the “hippest personality ever” to “warmongering genocidal maniacs” of the highest caliber, so who cares what they say?

This has changed with #gamergate because these professional agitators went directly to your forums, your communities, and your news feeds and leveraged their massive media influence to wage direct ideological warfare against you.

Now the question is why.

If we are to believe the likes of Ms. Sarkessian, then it is because video game culture is really an anti-women slaughterhouse that glorify rape and other types of gender violence. But what makes her more creditable than, say, the Pope, who represents the beliefs of over a billion people on Earth? He says video games exalt violence, portray anti-social behavior, and trivialize human sexuality.

Those are very different criticisms. How can you be so specifically anti-woman if you are too busy trivializing ALL human sexuality? How can you be glorfying just gender violence if you are exalting ALL violence? And what of the Democrats who say video games make you aggressive and desensitized to violence despite being part of the least violent generation in American history? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-stats_n_1026723.html)

This technique is known as “moving the goal post.” It's when your initial claim against something is invalid, so you “move the goal post” to something similar enough to make it look like you were right the whole time. This has been the coordinated technique sustained against gamers for almost half a century. This constantly shifting demonization of gamers has actually rendered all criticisms against gamers as invalid. They've laid out their bias long ago and have been beating that tired drum ever since. If the loyal “critics” are incorrectly moving the goal post every few months to a new social ill that gamers are vaguely responsible for, we still have to analyze why this slanderous representation continues.

The real reason why you are hated by the powers that be is because as gamers, your culture promotes coordination and unification. Because of online gaming, people have to gather together to solve their problems in a objective fashion. You've also been conditioned to achieve success no matter the cost. This simple but amazing blend of coordination and dedication is a -massive- threat to the officialdom because the moment such habits turned against them, they will wither and collapse. You are an untamed demographic in the eyes of professional power-brokers. They want your soul, coordination, and your dedication... but they want it aligned to their ends. But as we have seen, these owners of the cultural narrative hate you.

Since #gamergate, these authoritarians have been desperate to associate you with the KKK, Republicans, the Right, Nazis, ISIS, Al-Queda, terrorism, libertarians, and anything else that would supercharge their loyal (and deeply confused) base of followers. Since #gamergate, each and every single gamer on earth has been represented in mainstream media as the irreversible MRS: misogynist, racist, and sexist. (Power words that, once labeled, cannot be unlabeled and carry unlimited social stigma) Even a quick glance at the tags on Twitter will tell you that the goal post-moving is in full effect and in a way that has never been seen before in gaming history.

Do not misunderstand the challenge you face. Yes, you can dismiss the abuse because it is vapid at best. Yes, you have been under attack since day one. But you have never faced an opponent like this before. You are up against a loyal, zealous, dedicated, deep-pocketed, and highly coordinated force of people addicted to power. They truly see themselves as the representative of ALL culture simply because they can print whatever they want and have eyeballs read it. They are corrupt all the way to the very top and they hate you. They have always hated you. They will always hate you. They will call in every political favor, every lawyer, every judge, every lobbyist, every journalist, every academic and blogger and they will do their best to make George Bush, Jr. look like a saint compared to you. They are professional agitators that sell, not to the highest bidder, but to the most ideologically-aligned one.

The key is to ignore the minions and stay focused on the boss's weak spot: their funders. Without money, they can't promote their ideology of hate. Continue to tell them you are tired of being misrepresented to the entire world as a racist, sexist stooge. Every time these tyrants increase the volume of their hatred, it is not because they are gaining more support... it means they took a nasty critical strike they don't know how to shake off. While you've never faced them, they have never faced you.