Since Brianna is talking about Bernie Sanders and #gamergate and #blacklivesmatter like she knows what she's talking about, let's see what
her friends at Gawker Media have to say about the whole thing?
"This was remarkably dumb."
Without any sense of irony, they went on to say:
Gawker loves to paint entire groups with whatever brush they want so long as they don't buck the trend they are currently hopping on top of. Haven't they said
all of Reddit is nothing but MRA Racist Gamergate Misogynists? Yes they have, except when their own user base repeatedly calls them out on it until they have to drop the "
well, not ALL Reddit..." caveat. The writer even says near the end of the piece "Many on the left find it hard to come out and say “this was stupid,” because they support both Bernie Sanders and the Black Lives Matter movement." They recognize that this was a stupid fucking thing to do, but still closed their article with a plea for protestors to harass people as long as they aren't democrats.
This is Brianna Wu in a nutshell. She's Gawker Media, with 50k twitter followers instead of 550k. She has to waffle just enough that she doesn't alienate everyone around her while still trying to repeat the party line. Wu is quick to jump on everyone who might say "Well, not ALL men" or "Well, not ALL gamers..." and try to bully them into shutting up. The difference is Nick Denton and his writers are savvy enough to troll well 90% of the time. Brianna fucks that up nearly every single time because of her hubris or her brain damage even as she tries to emulate them.