GamerGate is McCarthyism. Don't let it silence you (opinion)

“I will write my manifesto in [Anita Sarkeesian’s] spilled blood, and you will all bear witness to what feminist lies and poison have done to the men of America.”

On Oct. 14, Anita Sarkeesian, the maker of the feminist “Tropes vs. Video Games” series and target of the recent GamerGate Internet movement, canceled a speaking engagement at Utah State University after the school received an anonymous email threatening a mass shooting should she speak. The above quote is from that email. Sarkeesian dropped the event because campus police couldn’t guarantee safety, as Utah’s conceal-carry laws would prohibit a ban on guns at the venue.