Hmm...
I just felt I had to share. Normally, I'm not "stop the SJWs" or whatever. I'm not that guy. I'm a moderate politically. But...
I was reading about the whole "Jessica Price" thing here on this site, so I went to see what "The Big Purple" was saying, just to get more opinions, because I don't know anything about this stuff- but I was curious. And the amount of bannings and "leave this thread" for - literally nothing!- made me feel sick. Just "I have a little bit of power over a little piece of nothing, and I'm going to act like a big kahuna, just because I can."
I honestly think those moderators are mentally ill, or they must feel so small in their day to day life they have to act like big dogs when they are running that board for a sense of self-esteem.
So, it gave me some insight into the whole thing. Shudder. I'll go wash my brain now.
Not standing up to the SJWs is how we get women like Jessica Price and all like her. I get it. You want to be the "rational centrist" Antifa firebomb small businesses and steal Air Jordans but someone said the gamer word on twitter therefore both sides are full of extremists.
No. Stand up and say "this is unacceptable behavior.". Being anti SJW is not a political statement. Despite what the media will tell you. It's a return to sanity. You don't have to be right wing to say "I just want to play my games without you people shitting it up." You can still be a "rational centerist" and just fucking say "no" to people.
I saw this stuff happen in real time. I do understand where it's coming from. Being nerdy and having those kinds of interests was not popular. Most people of that persuasion can remember being ostracized and bullied by people. So in fear of being like those mean people the nerds become accepting and well meaning to a fault. The mentality is that LGSes and similar spaces are safe from bad people. You can be gay, lesbian, or just strange in some way and you will be accepted. I had no problem with this for over 20 years. But because nerds are non-confrontational this meant that occasionally someone could turn up and be an absolute sperg with no consequence. It used to be saying to that guy "stop it. You're bothering everyone." was non political. Harmless. The right thing to do. Not that that always happened, sometimes the store owner didn't want to be seen as mean. But it was understandable when those store owners finally put their foot down.
But those spergs then became male feminists, later they started identifying as a sheet of a4 paper neatly folded into a printer. And suddenly it wasn't okay to tell these guys to stop being bastards. It was somehow "sexist" or "transphobic" to tell the 30 year old creep to stop harassing the 16 year old girls who just wanted to play Magic. Over an 8 year period I saw my favorite LGS turn from a place full of all sorts of colorful people including real women and girls who wanted to engage with the hobby to a den of frankly all white 30 to 50 year old mentally ill men who scared off the women due to being creeps and not being told "NO!"by the people in power at the LGS.
This was a microcosom of RPGs and tabletop gaming in general. You're not sexist, you're not bigoted, hell you don't even have to be transphobic to at least point out and stop bad people from doing bad things and stop them from using politics as a deflection for their bad behavior.