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Author Topic: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon  (Read 14172 times)

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2021, 01:24:08 PM »

This story was picked-up just this morning by the engaging and factual gaming news blog Your Dungeon Is Racist: https://yourdungeonisracist.blogspot.com/2021/09/white-supremacist-frog-not-welcome-at.html

Enjoy,

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2021, 01:50:24 PM »

This story was picked-up just this morning by the engaging and factual gaming news blog Your Dungeon Is Racist: https://yourdungeonisracist.blogspot.com/2021/09/white-supremacist-frog-not-welcome-at.html

Enjoy,

VS
A bit clunky, but a good start (it could use some polish in the story). Amusing. Do you have any word on if the company was ejected as well as Bergren?

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2021, 07:26:33 PM »
I could be mistaken here, but the frog thing may just be heresay.

I am not denying people got angry about the frog but am saying that gencon may have other issues with Jeff. One issue that’s been pointed out was him taking pictures of himself in The GenCon space setting up without a mask, which is against their policy.

Again I’m not entirely sure and I’m not here to say anyone is wrong as much as point out that there is a bit more to the story than just the frog.

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2021, 08:08:47 PM »

This story was picked-up just this morning by the engaging and factual gaming news blog Your Dungeon Is Racist: https://yourdungeonisracist.blogspot.com/2021/09/white-supremacist-frog-not-welcome-at.html

Enjoy,

VS
A bit clunky, but a good start (it could use some polish in the story). Amusing. Do you have any word on if the company was ejected as well as Bergren?

Thanks, hoss.  I don't know.

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2021, 08:45:41 PM »
This is a bunch of silly BS.  Apparently, GenCon is a lost cause; down on their knees, polishing the knobs of the SJW fruitcake crowd.
Let the Dice, Decide the Outcome.  Accept the Results.

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2021, 11:44:09 AM »
Kickstarter joined the lynching mob too:

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2021, 01:01:43 PM »
Wrongthink seems to be their justification. I don't know the dude or the company but this smells fishy. Divest from Kickstarter and boycott GenCon.

https://www.gencon.com/forums/78-general-info-2021/topics/16956-tgg-games-the-gaming-goat-jeff-bergen-conduct?fbclid=IwAR1QsV7fsgCQC0CGZEEAwDMkw4NrvDq2ygWDLmzikTN5oOgeq1St6XmUpSs
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2021, 05:29:48 PM »
Yeah. Nobody knows about how Pepe the frog was appropriated by conservative and white nationalist groups to troll the internet. Why would anyone mistake a Pepe the frog cartoon as conservative anti-woke symbol? Such a HUGE mystery. Man, these people are truly over-reacting... [/sarcasm]
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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2021, 05:35:33 PM »
Yeah. Nobody knows about how Pepe the frog was appropriated by conservative and white nationalist groups to troll the internet. Why would anyone mistake a Pepe the frog cartoon as conservative anti-woke symbol? Such a HUGE mystery. Man, these people are truly over-reacting... [/sarcasm]

One that's not a pepe cartoon
Two the OK symbol was a 4chan troll and you all fell for it.
Three by your logic anything that has been used/liked by ethnonationalists should never be used by anyone else even in the most remote likeness.

Hitler liked dogs and was a vegetarian. Now go pester dog owners and vegetarians for their nazi association...

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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2021, 06:01:05 PM »
It’s a picture of a frog

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #25 on: September 18, 2021, 10:37:43 PM »
This is terrifying. I remember the day the okay hoax went live. 4Chan trolled the world, and Reddit sat back and laughed. We thought it was hilarious. I am not laughing now. I thought no one could actually believe it.

The kickstarter they just canceled? Last year a Jeopardy champion who'd won 3 games put up the same "symbol", and was mobbed online. He apologized profusely, as he didn't even know what they were talking about, but we all know that's gasoline on the fire.

How did a prank become a real thing that is being used to end people's careers? Killing a kickstarter over this? That's just...you can literally google frog hands and see how ridiculous this is.

I would like to go back to my own timeline now, please.

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #26 on: September 18, 2021, 10:46:59 PM »
When actual white nationalists, including a murderer with racist motives, started using it unironically, it stopped being "a joke".

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #27 on: September 18, 2021, 10:52:24 PM »
When actual white nationalists, including a murderer with racist motives, started using it unironically, it stopped being "a joke".

White nationalists breath, drink water, eat, shit and use mass transport too.

And they do it "unironically".
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #28 on: September 18, 2021, 10:55:50 PM »
When actual white nationalists, including a murderer with racist motives, started using it unironically, it stopped being "a joke".

He says ironically
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Re: Jeff Bergen of The Gaming Goat escorted from Gencon
« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2021, 12:12:16 AM »
Yeah. Nobody knows about how Pepe the frog was appropriated by conservative and white nationalist groups to troll the internet. Why would anyone mistake a Pepe the frog cartoon as conservative anti-woke symbol? Such a HUGE mystery. Man, these people are truly over-reacting... [/sarcasm]
Except that wasn't a Pepe the frog cartoon.

Ordinary, bog standard frog.

So frogs are now a symbol of white supremacy? Does Kermit know?