I read through the thread and I kept saying in my head "Who the fuck are these people? and "Can there be that many stupid people out there to take the word 'fascist' and make it mean something it isn't?"
They are using it in such a broad scope, it loses its real meaning.
Most rpgs are combat orientated. Duh. Does that make them fascist? No, of course not. Racial limits for non-human races? No, it's a game balancing mechanic you fuckwits.
But THIS takes the fucking cake:
"My sense of Gygax is that he probably was a little bit fascist - or romantic of the colonialist era, if one prefers. Probably not so much politically, but emotionally; his work has a consistent sense of yearning for heroic adventure, after all, the kind that only exists in fiction, and it seems that he never questioned the basic proposition. The picaresque stylings in some of his stuff come closest (the rogue novel as a literary genre is pretty ironic, after all), but the way I read it, he enjoyed the cynical machismo of it more than any antiestablishmentarianism. For him, the vivacious, independent adventurer was the establishment he celebrated, and Alignment (an authoritative top-down morality) was the moral underpinning
(emphasis mine)
I'm trying to imagine Gary in an SS uniform, complete with jackboots.
Nah. He'd be more of the US Army SSgt tank commander type.
Plus, big words don't necessarily make you look smart on the internet. It just makes you look like an arrogant prick.