We have to remember who started the anti-gatekeeping push over the past 20 years. It was women, gays and minorities. Why? They were pushing back against jobs, industries and even subcultures for allowing themselves to be predominantly run by men but mostly white straight men. What has the end of gatekeeping resulted in? A lack of actual expertise. When we allow anyone a seat at the table we inevitable water down the conversation, we lower the standards. Accumulation of knowledge used to mean something because you actually had to put the work in. You had to read, you had to study, you had to experience. Now every loser with a web browser thinks they're an expert because they did 2 day deep dive on a subject. This is bad for industry, it's bad for the professional community and it is bad for subcultures and community driven groups of like minded individuals. When Gatekeeprs ran the music industry we had actual rock bands. They invested in them. They nurtured them. They didn't let the public completely tell all of us what we should listen to. They told us. Because they had better taste. When they let the broads in what happened? The Poptimist movement which has destroyed modern music and all but erased rock as a genre that gets any mainstream attention. Being in favor of Gatekeeping online though is an unpopular stance on all sides. Even in here people whine about gatekeepers. Little do they realize that Gamergate was essentially a pro-Gatekeeper movement even if they didn't realize it. So I say to you that we should all embrace Gatekeeping and enforce it whenever we can in whatever communities we belong to. It's the best way to preserve the things you love. Imagine how much better /pol/ would be right now if the Gatekeepers had stood up in 2016 and ran off the boomers.

>>509474516 (OP)
Things will never change until the intelligence agencies, military-industrial-complex lairs and defense contractor facilities are stormed and the glowniggers and parasites who work there are executed and the data they collect is leaked to the public so that the rest of these government assets, zogbots, mercenaries, glorified jannies and authority figures can be hunted down and exterminated.

>>509474516 (OP)
gatekeeping is fine to some extent but it's very easy to go overboard and make it so that it's virtually impossible to enter the gates and eventually you're left keeping gates that guard only yourself from making any connections

>>509474973
Fair. I think would even be fair to say some women, some gay men, and some minorities know even on particular subject to be elevated to a gatekeeper. And in some cases that happened. Certainly there were white gay men operating as gatekeepers in the fashion community and women as well. The problem is the push to diversify shortcutted "actually know what the fuck you're talking about" aspect. This by the way wasn't just a problem with elevating gays, broads and minorities, who weren't ready or would never be ready. It was a problem with elevating young people. Young people also whined about gate keeping, were elevated and often did a fucking terrible job. Yes there can be a problem with the old guard keeping the young guard with fresh ideas down, but a certain amount of that is inevitable and one could argue that as long as it is possible to break in, making it hard to break in has the advantage that those who do are usually the bad asses who deserved it. But you're right that sometimes it went and go overboard.