Personally, I don't think TBs name should be removed from the game at all. I think he's actually a good voice from the GG side of the fence. He's one of the few people who align themselves with gamergate without making it all confrontational, and in a public dispute these are always the people you should try to reason with. Making a social effort to delete his presence and acheivements in the gaming industry based solely on his gamergate affiliation will only serve to make the gamergaters feel that they are the targets of injustice and prejudice.
Also, months ago I did as you suggested here and tried to look into the 'roots' of some of the accusations about TB. It was during a discussion about his anti-transexual opinions, where I was finally directed to a video of him playing 'papers please'. In the video, he was confronted with a customer that looked like a guy in the picture, but had 'female' on their passport, and TB claimed that it could have been a transexual. There's no anti-trans message in what he said at all, he simply gave a light-hearted take on the fact that it's pretty hard to discern details from 8-bit inspired 2-colour graphics. I concluded at the time that it was people trying so hard to find fault that it felt borderline dishonest. I'm not very inclined to go all private-eye again to waste even more time on someone else's dispute, and I think to encourage people to do so encourages the unhealthy herd mentality that is the root cause of discimination, rascism, sexism and homophobia.
For the most part, people who affiliate themselves with gamergate *do* tend to be overprivileged guys. They tend to be people so unaffected by negative discrimination, they don't even have a real-world compass guideline of what discrimination is, and so they approach the argument with 'if A then why not B' type arguments that work fine in some theoretical utopia. Being, like most old school computer gamers, a little on the autistic side of normal, I can completely understand their confusion about positive discrimination or how female characters or industry personalities have to be treated differently to male personalities. There was a lot of nonsense in a community I was an active player in when a male pro-gamer said before a match that he was going to 'rape' a female pro-gamer, the same way he'd use the word against a male opponent, and was surprised at being evicted from the tournament for it. Personally, considering english isn't even close to a native language for him, I saw his punishment as an overreaction, but I saw the GG reaction to his punishment as laden with hate speech... This is how these things escalate, by each side of the argument being completely rash and binary about it's opinions. Each side being completely unwilling to accept even the possibility that there can be any good coming from the other side of the argument.
Malek - I totally admired what you posted, particularly:
at the end of the day both of these men are just human. And that means that they're prone to having faults, and no matter what they do they might have some stupid opinions too. But at the end of the day, what they do is worth more good than their occassional fuck-up does evil.
i think that sums the issue up quite well. I'd only add that I've always been the voice of temperance, and while I find the whole gamergate movement abhorrent, there exists within it a significant proportion of level-headed, logical, smart guys, that need only be educated on how treating people fairly is not treating them the same. Removing the most socially aware of them from your community, even trying to re-write history to exclude them, is only going to do damage to gaming journalism, cause further divides between the two sides of the debate, and justify the extreme views that circulate on the other side of the fence.
I think that, despite his GG affiliation, TB is a good guy, introduced a lot of people to doomrl, and doesn't deserve his name deleted from the history of this game over a completely unrelated drama on an unrelated gaming blog.
~Sylph
ps. Feminazism is flame-bait. Parasait, you should find a better word to use, as that one, despite being used with perhaps honest intentions, is pretty steeped in sexism these days, and should probably be avoided.