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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #105 on: July 22, 2021, 11:05:26 PM »
[I still remember someone telling me that if WotC started loosing money the bean counters at Hasbro would do something... No we know Hasbro has also been converted so D&D is lost, dead, long live the OSR!
My only argument against this position is that if you limit yourself to the OSR, you're dead in the water. The masses have spoken and the OSR is a tiny minority in terms of play preference, but the majority isn't the Woke mobs either.

The Woke are a minority, which means they need to keep their enemies divided into factions smaller than they are so they can attack those smaller groups one a time.

We need to embrace EVERY type of play that doesn't cave to Marxist wankery; Old School, New School, Home School, Organized Play School. If its opposed to the Woke its part of the team.

The OSR is a great incubation chamber of ideas.

But ultimately if a future woke D&D is to be brought low, a viable alternative needs to come forth.

At some point we are going to have to pick a horse to back.

Well, then someone needs to make a non-woke clone of 5e.
Why would you want a clone of a system that's got so much garbage in it? Make an alternative that follows more modern design principles that's actually good.

That's what I'm doing and I am on the last dozen-ish pages of the writing finally... basically the last bits of new GM advice (because I'm not going to presume that players/GMs are coming in via the gateway of the increasingly Woke WotC) are the only parts left to do. Anyone who can do their own world-building and adventure writing could use the rules now (and have been for my many many playtests that involved several almost complete rewrites in the earlier stages of the project).

And part of the effort too is to completely break free and clear of the d20SRD and the OGL. I'll have my own free use system license, but I want it unconnected to anything WotC. Its hard to say you're building a parallel structure when you're still using a lot of the enemy's infrastructure as your foundation. I think having to go back to the original myths and legends and other sources of inspiration (ex. I'll readily admit that Thundarr the Barbarian was a huge influence on my default setting) helps a lot too in terms of making something a little more original in terms of setting.


Because 5E is the single most popular system and edition of all time.  Why not try to take advantage of being 5E compatible, but different?
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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #106 on: July 22, 2021, 11:39:52 PM »
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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #107 on: July 22, 2021, 11:42:17 PM »
Greetings!

Don't you just love how the Marxist shills jump to do a bunch of tap-dancing to run cover for the cock-sucking, Liberal corporations and their hateful policies? Hasbro would never expect their employees to suck down Marxist jello! It isn't *mandatory* you bigot! ;D

Just imagine you being a Hasbro employee, and telling your boss that you will pass on the Marxist brainwashing seminar? Imagine how well that will go over with your liberal, cock-sucking, Marxist bosses? I imagine they would quickly collate a list of all employees that did not want to attend the Marxist seminar--yes, now you know who is going to be "Downsized". ;D

It's all optional, my friend!

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« Reply #108 on: July 22, 2021, 11:42:41 PM »
Bwhahahaha..... project veritas

I didn't even need to go any further.

Being covered by mainstream press like Newsweek also though.

I looked for Newsweeks article but didn't see it. I did find one from the Daily Mail that said that
1. This training webinar wasn't mandated, but voluntary, and only for small groups.

2. The content was derived from a 3rd Party, which may have views that are not consistent with WotC views.

3. The whistleblower didn't even attend such webinar about the content therin.

1.- And we all should believe the megacorp, they would never lie to us.

2.- Said 3rd party WAS hired AND paid by Hasbro, I would deduce from this their views do align with it.

3.- Right, and if he didn't then he can't know anything, there's no way he could know anything about it, in fact he doesn't know anything so much Hasbro is in damage control just because.

Greetings!

Don't you just love how the Marxist shills jump to do a bunch of tap-dancing to run cover for the cock-sucking, Liberal corporations and their hateful policies? Hasbro would never expect their employees to suck down Marxist jello! It isn't *mandatory* you bigot! ;D

Just imagine you being a Hasbro employee, and telling your boss that you will pass on the Marxist brainwashing seminar? Imagine how well that will go over with your liberal, cock-sucking, Marxist bosses? I imagine they would quickly collate a list of all employees that did not want to attend the Marxist seminar--yes, now you know who is going to be "Downsized". ;D

It's all optional, my friend!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Attendance is totally optional, drinking the koolaid is totally optional, enacting the racist/sexist policies derived from the semminar? Totally optional

Because we have never been on the receiving end of one of this Totally Optional courses (not a CRT one in my case but still) in our work place and we don't know it's as optional as eating your greens was with my grandma.
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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #109 on: July 22, 2021, 11:51:28 PM »
According to your "sources" everything the person who was actually there and reported did not happen?

Holy Batman, Batman!

Whistleblower

The training was led by Conscious Kid co-founder Kate Ishizuka-Stephens. Johnson says it was mandatory, but Hasbro maintains it was an 'optional diversity and inclusion webinar attended by a small group of employees.'

Hasbro: "We occasionally invite third-party speakers for optional sessions to discuss diverse viewpoints. As always, the views expressed by external speakers are their own and do not reflect the views of the company.'

"Johnson did not share any concerns with his employer [Hasbro] before going to the Project Veritas, and that it had no part in The Conscious Kid's lectures."

Not sure what smoking gun you are trying to find here and to what end.

The only thing I have to question is if the material he viewed does not reflect the views of the company, then why the heck are they making people watch it?  I highly, highly doubt that they pay for this 'training', but allow people to opt out of watching it.  Then what's the point of paying for it?  Why push any subjective agenda if it has no bearing on the company?  This isn't some dialectic debate at some academic institution, it's a place of business.

So we have a guy who actually worked for them and says it was mandatory, but now Hasbro realises the hot water they are jumping into and states it was optional viewing.  Did he know this?  Likely not, and as he stated, "...It was a meeting he was told he needed to attend at work."

Maybe he was actually interested in hearing more about the topic and became vehemently opposed to the way the material was structured and the assumptions it was making.  It really doesn't matter as it has no business being pushed in the first place unless there was some counterargument seminar to balance it, which there seems very little evidence of.

Reality check here: a black guy went against the grain, has been put on suspension (might as well stick it on the CV as everyone will know about it now), seemingly opposed his parents views and will be vilified for having a different opinion.  I can't imagine any scenario where he had some agenda to plan all this. The only silver lining in the end is a fund to help him as he has tanked his career.  There are no real positives here:  just someone who was strong enough to say no, I don't agree with this (for reasons he stated) and it is wrong to push these controversial cultural manifestos in a place of business.  Guess he thought it was worth enough to make the public aware as he's going to feel the effects of this bold move for years to come.

Hasbro's big problem is he didn't tell them he disagreed.  Oh, I'm sorry Hasbro, as you seem to be willing to show anything to employees that do not reflect your views, maybe you could have shown a Peterson video or two instead as you don't seem to care what is thrown your employees' way.  Of course that wouldn't go with the current trend would it?  So it is a cognitive decision the company is making you hypocrites.

Oh, and to keep it on topic: OSR yay, Hasbro/WOtC nay!
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« Reply #110 on: July 22, 2021, 11:56:22 PM »
Greetings!

Don't you just love how the Marxist shills jump to do a bunch of tap-dancing to run cover for the cock-sucking, Liberal corporations and their hateful policies? Hasbro would never expect their employees to suck down Marxist jello! It isn't *mandatory* you bigot! ;D

Just imagine you being a Hasbro employee, and telling your boss that you will pass on the Marxist brainwashing seminar? Imagine how well that will go over with your liberal, cock-sucking, Marxist bosses? I imagine they would quickly collate a list of all employees that did not want to attend the Marxist seminar--yes, now you know who is going to be "Downsized". ;D

It's all optional, my friend!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

You wouldn't know a Marxist even if one shot at you. And Hasbro probably has better jello than the VA, just saying 🤷

Greetings!

*Laughing*

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« Reply #111 on: July 22, 2021, 11:57:41 PM »
Bwhahahaha..... project veritas

I didn't even need to go any further.

Being covered by mainstream press like Newsweek also though.

I looked for Newsweeks article but didn't see it. I did find one from the Daily Mail that said that
1. This training webinar wasn't mandated, but voluntary, and only for small groups.

2. The content was derived from a 3rd Party, which may have views that are not consistent with WotC views.

3. The whistleblower didn't even attend such webinar about the content therin.

1.- And we all should believe the megacorp, they would never lie to us.

2.- Said 3rd party WAS hired AND paid by Hasbro, I would deduce from this their views do align with it.

3.- Right, and if he didn't then he can't know anything, there's no way he could know anything about it, in fact he doesn't know anything so much Hasbro is in damage control just because.

Greetings!

Don't you just love how the Marxist shills jump to do a bunch of tap-dancing to run cover for the cock-sucking, Liberal corporations and their hateful policies? Hasbro would never expect their employees to suck down Marxist jello! It isn't *mandatory* you bigot! ;D

Just imagine you being a Hasbro employee, and telling your boss that you will pass on the Marxist brainwashing seminar? Imagine how well that will go over with your liberal, cock-sucking, Marxist bosses? I imagine they would quickly collate a list of all employees that did not want to attend the Marxist seminar--yes, now you know who is going to be "Downsized". ;D

It's all optional, my friend!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Attendance is totally optional, drinking the koolaid is totally optional, enacting the racist/sexist policies derived from the semminar? Totally optional

Because we have never been on the receiving end of one of this Totally Optional courses (not a CRT one in my case but still) in our work place and we don't know it's as optional as eating your greens was with my grandma.

Greetings!

Exactly, Geeky!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
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« Reply #112 on: July 23, 2021, 04:13:35 AM »
A few years back it was mandatory that I receive "Anti-Biased Community Policing" training.  I got paid for it, of course; over-time rate. I had to sit and listen to the 'trainers' who called everyone a racist in about 12 different ways.  No, I didn't learn any effective communication techniques.  I did not learn any new 'moves' to add to my 'Verbal Judo' skills.  It was a waste of everyone's time all the way until about the last minute.  The 'trainers' asked if anyone had any questions.  "Have you ever heard of the Golden Rule?" I asked.  Just as they started to try to answer the question, I cut them off; 'Please learn to not lie'.  Got up and left and everyone followed me out.  We have yet to have that kind of training again.  We just have to sign off on a policy.  Which can be basically summed up as "The Golden Rule: Treat others as you be Treated." 

When they day comes when people truly stop being nice, what will the corporate world start trying to 'teach' then? 

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« Reply #113 on: July 23, 2021, 07:48:21 AM »
If "corporations" generally were promoting all perspectives it'd be one thing. But corporations are not generically simply supporting the option for their employees to get educated on a range of subjects. The racist "anti-racism" training is part of an industry of anti-White hatred that's become commonplace to promote in corporate America. Hasbro paid hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to gets employees to engage in a ritual of humiliation and indoctrination.

Does Hasbro itself believe in CRT? For a lot of corporations, engaging in this kind of neo-religious propagandizing is driven by deep capital like BlackRock & Vanguard who control vast amounts of the global economy & rate corporate investments they make according to how well those corporations push the globalist religion.

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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #114 on: July 23, 2021, 11:33:47 AM »
Bwhahahaha..... project veritas

I didn't even need to go any further.

Being covered by mainstream press like Newsweek also though.

I looked for Newsweeks article but didn't see it. I did find one from the Daily Mail that said that
1. This training webinar wasn't mandated, but voluntary, and only for small groups.

2. The content was derived from a 3rd Party, which may have views that are not consistent with WotC views.

3. The whistleblower didn't even attend such webinar about the content therin.

1.- And we all should believe the megacorp, they would never lie to us.

2.- Said 3rd party WAS hired AND paid by Hasbro, I would deduce from this their views do align with it.

3.- Right, and if he didn't then he can't know anything, there's no way he could know anything about it, in fact he doesn't know anything so much Hasbro is in damage control just because.

Greetings!

Don't you just love how the Marxist shills jump to do a bunch of tap-dancing to run cover for the cock-sucking, Liberal corporations and their hateful policies? Hasbro would never expect their employees to suck down Marxist jello! It isn't *mandatory* you bigot! ;D

Just imagine you being a Hasbro employee, and telling your boss that you will pass on the Marxist brainwashing seminar? Imagine how well that will go over with your liberal, cock-sucking, Marxist bosses? I imagine they would quickly collate a list of all employees that did not want to attend the Marxist seminar--yes, now you know who is going to be "Downsized". ;D

It's all optional, my friend!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Attendance is totally optional, drinking the koolaid is totally optional, enacting the racist/sexist policies derived from the semminar? Totally optional

Because we have never been on the receiving end of one of this Totally Optional courses (not a CRT one in my case but still) in our work place and we don't know it's as optional as eating your greens was with my grandma.

My workplace had an "optional" seminar on coping with working from home during the epidemic.  I decided I didn't want to bother but like 2 minutes in my Teams started blowing up with coworkers saying I have to log on because HR was waiting for me and not starting until I was there.

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« Reply #115 on: July 23, 2021, 12:24:35 PM »
A few years back it was mandatory that I receive "Anti-Biased Community Policing" training.  I got paid for it, of course; over-time rate. I had to sit and listen to the 'trainers' who called everyone a racist in about 12 different ways.  No, I didn't learn any effective communication techniques.  I did not learn any new 'moves' to add to my 'Verbal Judo' skills.  It was a waste of everyone's time all the way until about the last minute.  The 'trainers' asked if anyone had any questions.  "Have you ever heard of the Golden Rule?" I asked.  Just as they started to try to answer the question, I cut them off; 'Please learn to not lie'.  Got up and left and everyone followed me out.  We have yet to have that kind of training again.  We just have to sign off on a policy.  Which can be basically summed up as "The Golden Rule: Treat others as you be Treated." 

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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #116 on: July 23, 2021, 01:15:49 PM »
Shouldn't this go to the Pundit's forum? As far as I can see, there is zero RPG relevance here.

Hasbro may own WotC, but we're not even talking about WotC here - and a lot of the discussion is even broader than Hasbro.

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« Reply #117 on: July 23, 2021, 01:41:56 PM »
Stop buying WotC. They and their parent company are pushing CRT on children and stupid adults.

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Re: Hasbro CRT Whistleblower and WoTC Wokism Exposed!
« Reply #118 on: July 23, 2021, 02:37:20 PM »
Bwhahahaha..... project veritas

I didn't even need to go any further.

Being covered by mainstream press like Newsweek also though.

I looked for Newsweeks article but didn't see it. I did find one from the Daily Mail that said that
1. This training webinar wasn't mandated, but voluntary, and only for small groups.

2. The content was derived from a 3rd Party, which may have views that are not consistent with WotC views.

3. The whistleblower didn't even attend such webinar about the content therin.

Here is the Newsweek article. It was mandated, at least for this person, according to this person. And as it was "small groups" I strongly suspect it was his manager who mandated it for their group. Of course the content is from a third party - Conscious Kid, which is a known crappy group. The whistleblower did in fact attend the webinar. They even show some of it. That's why he was suspended - he recorded it and showed people outside the company which they claim violates their NDA.
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« Reply #119 on: July 23, 2021, 02:38:39 PM »
According to your "sources" everything the person who was actually there and reported did not happen?

Holy Batman, Batman!

Whistleblower

The training was led by Conscious Kid co-founder Kate Ishizuka-Stephens. Johnson says it was mandatory, but Hasbro maintains it was an 'optional diversity and inclusion webinar attended by a small group of employees.'

Hasbro: "We occasionally invite third-party speakers for optional sessions to discuss diverse viewpoints. As always, the views expressed by external speakers are their own and do not reflect the views of the company.'

"Johnson did not share any concerns with his employer [Hasbro] before going to the Project Veritas, and that it had no part in The Conscious Kid's lectures."

Of course it was optional in that you could quit if you dont want to go.

That makes it optional.

I'm not sure where you got the notion that the only other option was ending of employment?

What happens to staff that dont go to mandatory training?

 Show me the proof it was mandatory

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