Based on what I see over at Big Purple, Onyx Path seems like it's actively hostile to gamers who don't identify as liberal.
Is this a valid assessment, or is that simply seeing thing through the Purple Lens?
TL,DR Version: They didn't use to be...but these days...yes they are. Or well, at least the writers who are active on the big purple...the quiet ones working on the Trinity stuff seem to be more apolitical, but the Exalted and Nwod writers are actively hostile to conservatives.
Full Version
Onyx Path has always been a Liberal company in one way or another. I'm a Liberal myself... But the type of conservative they use to make fun of, was more or less the stereotype of conservatives, or rather the 80's neocons.
White Wolf was always about pushing boundaries and showing marginalized people, politics, and cultures as part of the backdrop of their games... and honestly it was kind of awesome. As I stated in a previous thread, being a teen in the 90's, Whitewolf books taught me quite a bit about real foriegn culture, or historical events like the Holocaust (They would always point out where the real world facts ended and their fictional interpretations began, responsibly).
Now, we flash forward to the problem today... Whitewolf won....or rather, the politics of the people who supported Whitewolf, Liberals like me who grew up on it... Well we kinda won for the most part...
No, it doesn't mean racism has been eliminated, it doesn't mean homophobia has either...but for the most part...today, in 2015 we are FAR more progressive than we were, even in the 90's... Old Whitewolf products aren't "edgy" anymore because they did challenge the status quo, and well were victorious.... It's not bad, it's kinda awesome in fact...
So what happened? Well, they started up the New World of Darkness... And the Nwod was very non-political, it was very dry....It was, to be frank...boring as fuck for the first few years of it's existence...
It took the Nwod about 5 years to really start churning out things that were in any way interesting...then you throw in all the CCP buying them out stuff, and rumors of the company dying....many of the original writers and creators end up leaving the company, moving on to other things...
Then they bring back the Classic World of Darkness....and it's a fucking hit. I will bet 10 to 1...they make more money off of Classic Wod these days, than they do Nwod...
Of course here's where the problem comes in...
The writers still working for Onyx Path...they don't realize they've won the culture war. They're still fighting it. They can't go into the edgy directions they did before...nobody cares anymore... A gay character in fiction is no longer something noteworthy or special ((A good thing mind you, it means we as a society have moved on..)) And well...they tried being non-political with Nwod and just writing Horror stuff...and that gave them a ton of shitty books and some really fucking awesome books..
Most of those folks who wrote the really awesome books have moved on...So, it meant it was time to try and be edgy political again...
This is where you get folks like Matt McFarland and David A Hill who have pretty much drank the extreme Liberal kool-aid and started running full on in direction toward Progressivism even harder than ever before.
But see, here's the thing... the Old Whitewolf? It had conservative fans. It had people who were Republicans, and Libertarians who played it and loved it..and while Whitewolf writers on the whole tended to lean toward Liberalism far more...it's not like they went out of their way to drive fans of different political spectrums away...
These days though...now...Well, you have them making games like "Beast: The Primordial" where Gamergaters are actual full on Psychotic Villains...and it's up to the Brave Beasts to kill them all...and to psychologically and physically torture anyone who doesn't fulfill there belief system ((I shit you not...Beast was probably the first Backlash to hit Onyx Path in a long time...McFarland and Hill's seething contempt for Non-Feminists and Non-SJW's was so thick in the text, it even angered their SJW proponents)).
Now the rumors are, that 4th edition Vampire is going to "clean up" the "problematic" aspects of Masquerade, like Hill did on Dark Ages Vampire ((Removing the Giovanni, Making Setites into good guys, and a few other things)) because Cwod is now look at as being racist since Masquerade has some Clans who are very culturally based.
So yes...these days? They are actively hostile to Conservatives. Just as they are actively hostile to Liberals who are not Liberal enough for them.