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Gawker Media, along with Vice, Salon, Vox, Buzzfeed, HuffPo, etc., are left wing online publications. It has nothing to with GamerGate. It would take some impressive sophistry to claim they're not left wing, just as it would take quite some sophistry to claim Breitbart, Daily Wire, National Review, etc weren't right wing.

Well, you could get a little less myopic, zoom out of the purely American perspective where left=Democrat and right=Republican, and see that none of the publications you named are left in any way.

(Vox sometimes has leftists writing for it, but I wouldn't call it left as a whole.)

I mean, you can make the connection way easier via Jezebel, which is an unabashedly left-wing Gawker Media imprint.

Gawker defends progressive ideas and bashes conservative ideas.

Of course in a world where you can get kicked out of your job as a CEO of Mozilla for defending the traditional family, it may look like there's no other option.

Edit:

Lot of words, only to realize I may have misread your post entirely. Redacting.

Pretty much.