Makes sense, but Wizards was woke before woke was a word. They were infected with the first wave of PC back in the '90s (a k.a. political correctness, or woke before intersectionality fully took over), and that cancer has been metastasizing within the company ever since.
I must truly be the old fart here. I remember when the only way to get your music on the high seas was to download multi-part compressed archive files on NNTP servers, aka news groups, or on IRC channels.
Now pardon me while I make my way back to my rocking chair. Lol
Since the 90s, but they were more subtle then. They were infected with the first big push of what we called "PC" back then and never completely shook the stink.
I'll give you an example. One guy on the WotC discussion boards pointed out something about an update to the Forgotten Realms setting: with the death of the King of Cormyr, all the "good" rulers and most of the powerful NPC's were female (there were a few men like Elminster, but they were rare and more often than not more morally gray than the women) and all the villains were male. Most of the people on the board didn't realize it, but - something that wouldn't happen in this day - they had a rational discussion about it. That took place before 2000.
Agreed, but it wasn't always that way, hence the reason why those who prioritized earning potential in the past tended to avoid academia and go into the private sector. Now there is an enormous financial incentive to get into administrative positions in universities, but now that the left has captured those institutions, anyone on the right who wants to maximize their earning potential almost has no choice but the private sector, since they would be filtered out from those lucrative positions that are now available.
If enough people on the right hadn't surrendered academia to the left back in the '60s and '70s, opting to forgo private sector jobs, the long march through the institutions would have faced a much more uphill battle. The left was smart enough to realize that capturing the youth was the key to capturing all the other institutions, and they were dedicated to the idea enough to follow through on it. Unfortunately, those of us on the right always assumed that " it doesn't matter, because they'll straighten out once they hit the real world."
But, while it's important to understand how we got here, we need to start focusing on solutions. It is one hell of a hole we have to dig ourselves out after several decades of sticking out heads in the sand and assuming it would all work itself out.
One factor that led to the state of affairs we find ourselves in has frustrated me for many decades now. The right ceded academia for a long time due to the old canard, "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach." Basically, why teach econ when you can potentially make exponentially more money with a career in econ? After all, that's keeping with their principles.
Also, due to their ideology being less profit focused, more leftists have been far more enthusiastic about trading a potentially lucrative career for a less lucrative opportunity to indoctrinate the minds of the young and take an active part in the "Long March the institutions." Once again, that's keeping with their principles.
Unfortunately, things are so far gone in academia that even if conservatives were to opt for more teaching roles in an attempt to lessen the influence of the left, they would find themselves hard pressed to secure those positions because leftists are now largely in charge of the hiring process as well as the rest of academic administration. So I'm unsure if universities in the United States, as they currently exist, can be saved. Maybe the best we can hope for is the emergence of a skill-based approach to hiring as a move away from the credentialism that has come to dominate our society, as well as more emphasis on the trades. That still leaves professions such as doctors and lawyers being unduly influenced by leftists during their education, but we have to start somewhere.
It looks like a shitty take on the Rosie the Riveter poster back from World War II. These people have no ideas of their own that are not destructive.
"Shaft: he's a punctual, high credit rating motherfucker!"
Anyone still buying issues of Playboy after they made a tranny Playmate of the .Month in November 2017 isn't going to be offended by this, and anyone not buying issues is either not going to care or is going to be disgusted by it. Pretty dumb as PR moves go, but Playboy has been doing dumb PR moves for a long time.
Oh, they are. It's no conspiracy theory. If they don't pop out a lot of children fast, China could collapse within 20-30 years, if not sooner. This is also another reason why I fully expect, if China is going to make any big moves, they are going to make them within this decade. Because once their demographic bomb explodes, they will be in a worse position to expand, invade Taiwan, and do all the other evil shit that they want to do.
Here's a video about their overwhelmingly aging population.
I went and looked...OP started the other thread on this topic. Sounds to me like someone got the jab and is now looking for reassurances that they won't die from sudden, explosive anal prolapse or some shit two years from now
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