I came across one of those "it's not for you" articles. Basically saying the same thing we have gotten used to hearing regarding diversity/representation. It basically said that those who don't like diversity should not watch it and it isn't for us. I long ago gave up trying to explain that diversity for the sake of diversity is poison for entertainment and that I don't care what color they are, but if the show exists to peddle fake narratives (racism/sexism) then the show will fail.
I waved the white flag a while back and just decided with few exceptions to only watch/read stuff from 2014 and prior. Luckily with video games I am a Skyrim addict and with mods I can play forever. I doubt Bethesda would go woke with Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield.
What I don't understand is this. Why is it they can tell us "don't watch it" or "it's not for you" but they get so upset if we suggest the same thing. Like if a new show comes out that doesn't meet the woke mafia's standard for diversity/representation why can't we just say "well if the cast is too white then it isn't for you or you can just watch something else"
And one thing I will never understand as a lifelong comic book reader/collector is why so many feminists get into comic books or gaming for that matter if they hate the hobby so much. I've known plenty of female fans or gamers who legitimately like the hobbies but I doubt they would be able to get a position with those companies. Perfect example of this is that lady that is in charge of the She-Hulk show. She can't shut up about how evil white male nerds are and how horrible western literature is but she has no problem making money off of a character created by a white guy. Oh yea, that is another triggering thing. Telling these people to make their own material.
But does anyone have any idea why this mindset or double standard exists? Sometimes I feel like an oddball because I am a 40 year old black American and I understand that the U.S. is majority white, so I am not going to throw a fit when most of the entertainment is done by whites. Plus I think someone has personal issues if they have to see themselves represented in everything they watch. But what do I know.
It’s healthy for you to not have to see yourself in fiction, everything was meant to be escapism entertainment at the end of the day. I don’t think of myself as He-Man or (old) She-Ra, and that’s ok. I like those characters because they exemplify some of the best heroic traits of both sexes, not because I see myself in them.
A lot of these people are mentally-ill/have savior complexes. They’re similar to the ultra-conservatives of the 90s, but on steroids. “We have to take it away or else the masses will sin!” Same message, different people.
...You don’t know how modern-day Microsoft thinks. :( Now that they own Bethesda, I’d be surprised if they DIDN’T go woke.
Well elder scrolls is such an open world I hope they don’t beat you over the head with it.
Eeehhhh, I’d prepare for at least one main quest to be dedicated to helping out/referencing the woke cause.
Again, I’d love to be wrong, but as another Skyrim/Fallout fan, I’m also trying to be realistic between what we know about Microsoft/Bethesda nowadays.
It was rumored that it takes place in Hammerfall so it may spare us on the racist angle since the majority will be black. Redguards are themselves formidable conquerors and if I remember correctly hated magic users so it will be very hard to make them in to some poor innocent victims of the evil white empire run by an orange emperor and his army of blue armored troops. Granted that logic or cannon never influenced SJWs but I do have hopes for this game, it is more resistant to woke influences then other games.
The biggest threat are feminists, if it is not to much feminist influence we can mod.
Eh, when TES 6 is released the story will be about how those opressive whites don't just let the poor black victims slaughter them in bright daylight.
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Women don't want their own thing, they want to kill yours.
Someone should introduce you to Neo_Techni...
Why's that? The existence of an outlier does not prove the rule to be false.
Making it purely about politics doesn't make sense, because some of these things are targeted at people too young to vote.
Actually, it does. When you make an assertion about an entire group, as you did, even one example would be sufficient to debunk your claim. Not to mention that you haven't substantiated your usual craziness either. As if most women even care about your hobby, unless you're in a relationship with them...
If you can't see, even now, that they're destroying our things out of spite, I don't know what to say.
Who is this 'they' you keep talking about?
I certainly don't see that "women" are doing that. Rabid feminist shrews do. The overwhelming majority of women don't care either way.
Anything pro-white is considered racist, sexist, bigoted, etc. Anything anti-white is considered progressive, diverse, positive, etc.
White people are not allowed to have a "culture" or place where they are able to avoid things like multiculturalism. The borders must be open, and the legal and economic systems must reward all out-groups.
Which is a dumb mentality. I’ve studied a lot of cultures and Europe has rich cultures. The idea that white people can’t be proud of their culture is absurd.
You can’t condemn racism and then attack whites because they are white.
Most of the people who condemn white men as a group for alleged crimes in the past (which were not the actions of 'white men' but human universals), conveniently ignore that their useless existence is only comfortable because of all the contributions made to human society by white men.
If you try to blame white men for something like slavery, practiced by nearly all groups of humans and where white men are unique only in being the first to abolish it, then surely white men deserve praise for being the ones to invent modernity (then again, modernity sucks, so fuck white men).
Here you see the double standards again. The right course of action is of course to not see humans as intertemporal abstractions.
What it really comes down to is, this is Not. About. Race. It never has been. It's about ideology. Race is just a tool, a wedge being hammered into the cracks of Western Civilization, especially the US, by collectivist totalitarians who want to break us apart so they can rule over the pieces.
All those who think they are in opposition to the commies but are all, "muh joooz, muh joggers, muh demographics" are just self-destructing by contributing to that fragmentation.
Demographics are not destiny. Look at the results of the election. Despite being carpet bombed by the media for four long years about how he is the most racist, homophobic and fascist president in the universe, Trump gained record votes from blacks, latinos, and gays that no Republican candidate has had for a hundred years.
That's because, despite all the pandering from the Democrats, people in those demographics are starting to see that there is something very, very fucky going on in the establishment, and despite Trumps many, many flaws, he serves as a fat, grimy thumb in the eye of that establishment.
If you've ever compared any of the collectivist, authoritarian regimes which resulted in death and human suffering beyond comprehension, to the flawed, but still viable implementation of the ideals put forth in the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution...
If you would rather live in a society that values individual character and reason over tribalism and superstition...
If you believe that mankind's most prosperous state is individual liberty, tempered by personal responsibility...
If you believe that it is better to die standing for what you believe than to merely exist on your knees...
You need to be willing to stand up and say, "I will stand with anyone who shares these values, because without these values, everything is lost."
To do otherwise is to submit to totalitarian dystopia.
[patriotic music swells]
You're incredibly naive.
Am I? Or are you incredibly narrow in your view of humanity?
Do you understand the concept of evolution?
If all non-whites had low IQ, they’d all have voted for BIden, and again, we saw record numbers of non-whites vote for the pro-freedom candidate. Remember that shit’s an average, an average.
Amen brother
"Racism" as a word was just created, used, and perpetuated to enable this kind of activity. The people pushing it don't care about equality or whatever else they claim to. The media, universities, entertainment, news, etc. They will fill them with as many lies as it takes to keep power.
Commies can't handle the idea that anything exists that isn't under their dominion.
The concept that those who disagree can quietly do their own thing is an anathema to them. The enemies of the revolution HAVE to be destroyed or at least silenced.
Communists can't abide art that doesn't push their ideogy for the same reason they can't abide capitalism anywhere: the existence of alternatives to communism prevents communism from taking hold.
It’s all about power and control. Often there’s reasons why they want this power and control, but it all goes back to power and control. The optics game and entryism are what you’re seeing. With optics, it’s all the sinister shit they use when they talk. You aren’t exchanging ideas with them, they’re abusing and browbeating you. Those double standards are by design. I’m sure you’ve heard about their constant lambasting of “gate-keeping”, while they “remove toxic elements” or “show you the door”. They’ve labelled two identical acts as completely different, painting themselves as virtuous and just. They repeat the contradiction long enough, loud enough and punish any who speak out to ensure the majority assume it isn’t a double standard.
With entryism, it’s a similar thing. It’s like the abusive-ex horror stories, where the other is so controlling they try to insert themselves and dominate the person’s life completely. No-one can have anything they don’t have their fingers in. They’ll weasel their way into companies the media have identified as market leaders and begin to work their way through the employees until they’re compliant or removed. If you have the time, I’d suggest reading through Geekergate. It provides as good an article as any on how they work.
I would argue that this is not the white flag, but a victory - as you are re-establishing control over your own mind and rejecting their attempts to control it through propaganda.
Double standards. It's what they have in all other areas of life, so why would you not expect it here? Their ideology is totalitarian, so they want control over absolutely everything. And that is quite distinct from what mascot they are using at any given moment.
For them, 'hobbies' are just politics through other means. That is what totalitarians are. See how Stalin used art to advance his politics.
Correct. The ones who do get positions are self-promoters. These are not the people who are actually interested in gaming. Look at an Amy Hennig. Look how little attention she gets from these vile creatures, even though she is smart, competent and mentally stable, while the Zoe Quinns and Brianna Wus ("woman") of the world get all the attention. Apart from the difference in competence, Hennig is not preaching about how she is a woman all day. She's actually doing the work.
This is true in many other fields. There are many other great scholars who are female or black, who are completely ignored, because they are doing scholarship instead of talking about their gender and race.
You can't demand the impossible.
Double standards need no justification. They are a naked exercise of power. You may as well wonder about why they think that the taxpayer not funding 'Piss Christ' is censorship, while banning people who disagree with them is not censorship. There's nothing there.
Honestly, the thought of being upset that entertainment is white had never even occurred to me until just a few years ago when the non-stop whining started. My ethnicity gets close to 0 'representation'. Not only could I not care less, I find it mystifying that there would be anyone who cares. It does bother me when there are SJWs in entertainment, instead of human beings.
Have you noticed that these people always say that "blacks need to see people on TV who look like them"?
The scumbag, drug-addicted, rapist/ pedophile actors in Hollywood do not "represent" me regardless of their ethnicity. This stupid race/ethnic obsession has gone way too far.
I went from watching fresh Prince, Family matters, the Cosby show, and in loving color to avoiding black-led TV shows entirely. Because prominent black characters = woke idiocy roughly 99% of the time in 2020. Same goes for female leads. And because those two groups now comprise the majority of characters in major studio productions, I'm stuck with pre-2015 media by default.
II have been re-watching all of those shows lately haha (except the Cosby show which isn't on)
Also 'Martin', which runs every day.
This is precisely what I was telling someone. I’m black and I avoid black led shows now because they will most likely Peddle false racial narratives and not care about entertainment. Same with female led shows now. This obsession with diversity is poison. Now a straight white male has to be good or else he can’t find work as an actor or a writer. Since other groups aren’t held to the same standard so many lousy writers and actors get jobs.
I loved Fresh Prince, Martin, In Living Color, Cosby, etc but they cared more about entertainment sure they had “very special episodes” but I could live with that.
I still love watching reruns of leave it to beaver and father knows best. Now imagine heads exploding if you had a show about a traditional white nuclear family in 2020.
Actors = woke idiocy literally 100% of the time.
While I sometimes do watch movies, I make sure I never have to pay for it.
A surprising number of actors are not like this. Kurt Russell, Chris Pratt, Vince Vaughn, Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood...
Sort of a bold move for you to point to Hollywood as a den of woke idiocy lol
The short and simple answer is that it's because they're total hypocrites.
More lengthy - these are people who redefined racism for the purpose of allowing them to be prejudiced towards you, if you're white, but to classify exactly the same behaviours in return as "racism".
Everything people like this get involved in, one off the first things they do is amend the structure so that they can keep on being the terrible, terrible people that they are, but anything and everything you do is used as evidence of how you're just a terrible person who really should be ostracized, just as soon as they've finished taking all of your money, you problematic privileged person, you.
This isn't a mindset you use against people you like or even just disagree with. It's a mindset you develop as a weapon to direct at people that you hate, as it can only lead to taking everything from them.
I'm pretty sure that was the entire point of the term racism from the beginning.
Social status, social climbing, wanting to be important and lord over the plebs etc.
Money.
Companies want to look good and have obvious "diversity" aka twitter queens. No artistic talent required, just be good at twitter, which they're already good at.
Real fans smell bad, want actual quality (expensive) and most importantly aren't VIPs on twitter.
"You are touched by darkness. I see it as a blemish that will grow with time. I could warn you of course but you would not listen. I could kill you but someone would take your place. So I do the only thing I can... I go."
-Babylon 5: The Geometry of Shadows
That is a show on my list to watch. I’ve heard great things about it.
The first season is pretty hard to watch as the actors are still hitting stride with their characters, but the story is building a foundation that will be built on. Season 2 and onwards has a consistent quality.
Because the Left is purely defined through War. As Clausewitz describes it, it is the attempt to use your will to overwhelm your opponents will.
These people see everything through the lens of warfare. Including racial divisions. The racialists see everything through the "racial theory of history" which asserts that each race and ethnic group is fighting a zero sum game against one another for dominance.
Simply put: they are claiming ownership over certain cultural artifacts. They are opposed to you interfering with those artifacts because your presence is a threat to their control over it. On the other hand, something they consider to be your cultural artifact should be stripped from you or diluted in order to weaken your control over it. It is not hypocrisy or a double standard to them. They are not applying a universal principle outside of power alone. Your power is a threat to thier's. No further elaboration is needed. It is simply a tactic in an ongoing war.
As an enemy group, your ability to defend your interests or artifacts is simply not their concern. Watch something else, use your own artifacts, do not touch theirs. They will take yours until you tell them to stop. The moment you do, they will attack you for saying no because that is what you do when your enemy shows you resistance.
Again, think about this only from the perspective of power and you will understand. They see comic books and gaming as an effective means of propaganda and control. They see these industries as enemy strong points to be seized. Nothing more.
No general ever said "Sugarloaf Hill? I really like that hill. I would like to take it because it fits my interests." They only say, "Take Sugarloaf Hill. It has a commanding view of the enemy fortifications, and I need you to put artillery on it."
Comics are nothing more than a battlefield position to dominate. Literally nothing more. The only thing that matters is power.
They have this need because of racialist propaganda. Useful Idiots to racialists associate everything with their racial identity. It is the core of their being. Nothing outside of their race should effect them. Only things within their race can be appreciated. Things of their race should be praised. Things outside of their race are to be dismissed or condemned. Their racial identitarianism defines them. They understand intersectionality as a philosophy of self. You are empty vessel of which your intersecting collective identities converge, nothing more. You are merely an extension of your collective. Your collective is all that you are, all that you're capable of being, and your collective is more than you. You should be proud of being part of something larger than your worthless self.