Cards Against Humanity lives up to its name
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Read a post a while ago that accurately described CAH, now I can't find it but I'll do my best to recall and paraphrase.
It's also a way for the progressive socially inept to ape normal human interaction. Groups of friends generally push boundaries and make off-color jokes with each other regularly. Subscribers to lib ideology are completely incapable of doing this, else they'd be excommunicated. However, the game allows them to be transgressive and edgy, if only for a few minutes. It simulates between strangers and acquaintances the sort of irreverent banter between true friends that they will never be able to have
This is good analysis. It's sort of like drinking card games that are ubiquitous and rampant in college. It allows young adults to push past prior reservations against drinking alcohol--places the locus of control outside of themselves, leaving them blameless. It's not "I choose to drink," it's "Oops, the rules of the game says I have to drink!"
Same mechanism as you described for wokesters. It's not "I choose to say edgy things that may be unacceptable to the liberal hivemind," it's "Oh noes! These silly cards just happen to be referencing FBI crime statistics not my fault!"
I always thought drinking games were dumb, and I never needed an excuse to drink nor benefited from encouragement to drink more than I wanted to. It turns out, I'm just an alcoholic. I guess drinking games are just the motivation normies need to drink like an alcoholic, kek
so... you're saying its like that Star Trek episode with Landru where the oppressed and totally controlled society had a night of Festival? :D