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The rise and fall of an SJW gamer

Started by Alzrius, June 07, 2016, 12:53:37 PM

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Alzrius

June 07, 2016, 12:53:37 PM
Given that I've previously complained about how Candlekeep (or at least their Gen Con seminar/meetup) and EN World were becoming more SJW, it seems only fair that I point out when they go the other way as well.

In this case, a particular thread on Candlekeep was making fun of D&D's edition treadmill, when a poster chimed in to explain how racist it was to say "orc lives matter" (among other jokes that were made about the perpetually-outraged). When a moderator tried to explain how that wasn't racist, she not only argued with him, but claimed that the mod was racist and trying to "gaslight" her. (For what it's worth, popular opinion as to how offensive these jokes were seemed to be split, with a slight majority thinking that they were alright.) The thread, unsurprisingly, ended up locked.

This same poster then brought this up (albeit not in her first post) on EN World, during a thread she started about the "problems of evil races" in terms of their parallelism to real-world discrimination. In this case, the general consensus was that this wasn't actually a problem at all. Needless to say, she didn't take it very well, and the thread ended up locked.

...only for her to then turn around and start yet another thread on EN World. This one being an AMA ("ask me anything") about her work with Roma people, and how to "fix" their representations (e.g. the Gur, the Vistani, WoD Romani, etc.) in tabletop gaming. Once again, people didn't take very well to her implications that anyone who didn't recognize her expertise and agree with her opinions was a racist. When a mod called her out, she once again argued that said mod was bullying her, and the thread got locked.

Given that someone in that last thread referred her to "an RPG forum of significant size where it is explicitly forbidden to question the assertions of people making claims of something being inherently racist," I wonder how long it will be before she winds up over on The Big Purple.
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June 07, 2016, 01:09:12 PM
I'm betting that Pundit doesn't care. If he does he can reopen the thread.
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