Magic the Gathering, "Too Toxic to Ever Clean Up."
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This man (so called) brings his pseudo intellectualism of trying to figure out who the culinary were in battlestar galactica and thinks he’s smart enough to pontificate on sociological theories using that same fan style that he read on Facebook.
It’s BS.
First off white and black ARE COLORS - not indications of race. The only time you can actually being color into this is because Crayola called their “pinkish” crown color “flesh” which is an insinuation of melanin color! Notice the goof ball here doesn’t even realize he’s made a racial statement because he thinks only white and black count as race and NOT the “red” cards which have always indicated Americans (you May have heard of the “redskins” controversy?”
Secondly - the depiction of women is pop culture style, period. You need only go back to the early 1900s to see that FAT women were the desired ones (because they were healthy and matronly, skinny women were right out.) You’ll note he also glosses over the depictions of males where “heroic” men ares tiring and athletic and “evil” men are sniveling thin enough dudes.
As for the “everybody knew the card wuz raciss” - no. The card is not “raciss” the card is invoke prejudice and I will bet you GOOD money that the artist originally drew that picture as a klansman with white robes. A KKK member attacking people. What other imagery perfectly represents “invoke prejudice”?! But once it hit the editors that probably threw up red flags (there’s that color thing again) and so he changed it to dark robes to suggest it in clever fashion. At NO time does MtG say “prejudice is good” if anything the artwork maintains its bad connotations.
But alas, intelligence and cleverness and open thinking isn’t a hallmark of the SJW.
Lastly this stupid twit has been playing MtG from its creation. 26 years. Including the racist color scheme and card and over sexualized women and it’s all irredeemable from day one.
Cept he played it for 26 years.