They want you to believe that #ReaderGate is evil. The Literery Elite want to tell you, that we, the silent majority of readers, yes readers who are the only reason the Literery Elite even get to be elite at al, who have been silent too long, are wrong. But I’m here to tell you not to believe that elite who you made.
No. #ReaderGate began when vigilant readers became suspicious about the highfalutin so called opinions of so called “book reviewers”. It began as whispers by those too sacred to speak out. Scared by a Literery Elite who too long have towered like ivory towers over common readers. But we would be towered over no longer! And hence #ReaderGate was born.
#ReaderGate is a consumer revolution. A book is a bit of content, and it should not matter what that content is, just so long as we like consuming it. The demands of #ReaderGate are simple, and all #ReaderGators agree, except the ones who don’t who aren’t real #ReaderGators. Some say, they being the aforementioned Literey Eliters, that #ReaderGate is just abuse. Or excuse for abuse. Or both. This is a lie. #ReaderGators reject all abuse. Except the ones who don’t, who aren’t real #ReaderGators either. And also they started it.
Without readers, writers would only be men holding their pens. It has been proven, by vigilant readers of #ReaderGate, that writers are disgracing the noble profession of writing by making it corrupt. How? Let me tell you how. A key demand of #ReaderGate is that novelists stop making stuff up about people. That’s how.
Actually #ReaderGate is about ethics in book journalism. For generations book critics have discriminated against writers on the basis of quality. #ReaderGate demands equality for all writers regardless of quality. A book is just entertainment. It shouldn’t matter whether the book is quality or not for it to entertain some people. Don’t make the books political. Books are about people. They should never be political.
This is why I support #ReaderGate.
Damien Walter 
I appreciate the satire Damien. Mixes up the sentiment from both camps rather well.
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Almost missed the satire here. Thought maybe this was dashed off in a pique late at night after a few too many glasses of wine. Hilarious: “Without readers, writers would only be men holding their pens.”
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That is not correct. Gamergate was started as a reaction against the slander aimed gamers unleashed August 28th. That is why it’s called “gamergate”.
The goal of the “movement” before that was to get journalists to write/take a stance on the Zoe Quinn scandal. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Except it literally isn’t, as it was coined by Adam Baldwin in a tweet about Zoe Quinn before any of those articles were actually released.
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Reblogged this on The Chicago Dream.
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