Magic the Gathering removes "racist" cards from its library

[I Am Legion]

This just in, Crayola removes the black crayon due it being racist.

 

[shockaholic12]

The point of the card is to invoke intolerance (to other colors). I'm saying it's absurd that #woke culture is itself so intolerant it can't see that this isn't praising or encouraging racist values in real life. Otherwise, any card in the game that utilizes imagery which is immoral or oppressive should be considered similarly egregious, and out of bounds. This is a preposterous boundary for a fictitious game. Where does it end? By this benchmark one shouldn't be allowed to choose a dark side character in a Star Wars video game. This isn't just about a card game. It's about all games, all art.

Magic isn't saying no one else can use, make, or sell this kind of art. Their personal choice not to in no way effects your ability to create and sell a card game all about being intolerant and build an audience for it.

Magic is a company that aims to sell a toy to children and saw an possible issue with a card asking kids to "play" a negative racial theme so they made an easy choice and got some free press.

 

[Madmick]

Magic isn't saying no one else can use, make, or sell this kind of art. Their personal choice not to in no way effects your ability to create and sell a card game all about being intolerant and build an audience for it.

Magic is a company that aims to sell a toy to children and saw an possible issue with a card asking kids to "play" a negative racial theme so they made an easy choice and got some free press.

*affects

This is a fine counterargument to an argument that hasn't been forwarded in this thread.

Sure any color not your own, not just the dark colors. I'm sure that makes it all right. This is the hill you idiots want to die on. Defending Nazis and the KKK. And your excuse is but, but you can kill people in GTA!

Concession accepted.

 

[nostradumbass]

You could get hysterical and jump to the conclusion that a half the country hates the country or you could take a deep breath and acknowledge people just realized how much tax money was being blown on overpriced stunts and decided you don't need to blow through millions of our tax dollars during sporting events that have fuck all to do with war to be patriotic to get folks to clap for a vet. Thus the Pentagon banned the practice and the NFL told teams to stop taking money for it.

So I guess in your state of constant spazzing out that means the pentagon hates patriotism and the country too.

The NFL can be as patriotic as it wants, it should just spend it's own money doing it and keep their fingers out of my wallet. because I don't think that's something you "buy". The fact you find that un-American makes you look like a sucker.

Kneeling silently during the anthem isn't a statement that you hate the entire country. There's plenty of military who fought for their country and voice their support for this type of protest. But again you think those vets hate patriotism because you're a spazz.

If the NFL wants to squash kneeling it can, it's a very bad business and moral choice though.

Lol YOU are the one who claimed displays of patriotism were politically divisive. You are getting so goddamn far off into the weeds to avoid acknowledging mass censorship and woke sterilization of anything that hurts activists' feelings that you're somehow on "people realized tax money was going to halftime show recruitment ceremonies". I don't follow the NFL, have no idea if there was some massive demand to stop halftime ceremonies, and none of it has anything at all to do with censorship.

All of these woke censorship moves are of things that have existed for decades, and movies and songs that are older than that, so either customers/viewers/listeners didn't object enough to complain before now, or it's people who never did play/watch/read/listen and just want to dictate for other people what information or entertainment they're allowed to have based on their own fragility.

Left wing activists are also not "half the country". The people who claim America is terrible, everybody is a racist and chant "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western civ. has got to go" and drone on about "white privilege" and base their opinions of everything on the skin color of the people involved are only like 15% of democrat voters, so they're a small percentage of the country but are certainly the most obnoxious and self-righteous segment of the population.

 

[Squarechoke]

This isn't cherry-picking. There is a right and a wrong when it comes to language. "Literal Nazi" invokes a very specific parameter of that term. It isn't a figurative denotation.

It is when you chose a dictionary that didn't have the exact same written definition as others like Mirriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, etc, as an attempt to say that it's false that the suggested definition exists in a common dictionary. That's of course only relevant to the example of a different definition that I gave (which was just that, an example, and not the point), it holds no relevance to the actual point that you think Nazis are only people belonging to the National Socialistic German Workers' Party, which you have helped to disprove yourself by posting evidence to the contrary.

Of course there is right and wrong when it comes to language (although that is fluid as languages change over time). Using the word "literal" is by definition correct if you attach it to a non-figurative definition of a word in a dictionary, which is what was done in this particular case.

 

[shockaholic12]

Lol YOU are the one who claimed displays of patriotism were politically divisive. You are getting so goddamn far off into the weeds to avoid acknowledging mass censorship and woke sterilization of anything that hurts activists' feelings that you're somehow on "people realized tax money was going to halftime show recruitment ceremonies". I don't follow the NFL, have no idea if there was some massive demand to stop halftime ceremonies, and none of it has anything at all to do with censorship.

All of these woke censorship moves are of things that have existed for decades, and movies and songs that are older than that, so either customers/viewers/listeners didn't object enough to complain before now, or it's people who never did play/watch/read/listen and just want to dictate for other people what information or entertainment they're allowed to have based on their own fragility.

Left wing activists are also not "half the country". The people who claim America is terrible, everybody is a racist and chant "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western civ. has got to go" and drone on about "white privilege" and base their opinions of everything on the skin color of the people involved are only like 15% of democrat voters, so they're a small percentage of the country but are certainly the most obnoxious and self-righteous segment of the population.

quote where I said patriotism was divisive. I said you shouldn't spend millions on millions of tax dollars on overpriced stunts during sporting events. How do you get so triggered by everything lol?

Cultural norms shift over decades and companies move on from old products tied to them and you're in here throwing a bitch-fit about censorship when you don't seem to grasp what the word means.

 

[Here's the thing]

The events of the past few weeks are riots stemming from the death of George Floyd which has been decried by #BLM as part of their ongoing campaign against police brutality. This is the movement which has been terrorizing businesses and individuals who dare to oppose their label. Grant Napear was a recent example who simply responded to DeMarcus Cousins asking for his thoughts on #BLM, "I think all lives matter!" He was suspended from his job of over 30 years for that tweet.

Corporations have reacted by scrambling to virtue signal their support for the hysterical Marxist movement to avoid being the next sacrificial lamb offered up in the press as an example of a intolerable racist; because, presumably, by their logic & rhetoric, it is mere political opposition which perpetuates deaths like Floyd's. Indeed, #BLM leaders and liberal supporters of the movement around the country have declared on social media or in Op-Eds that even less than this is a transgression: silence is complicity has become the motto. The implied threat is clear, and the result has been companies like this one responding by proactively demonstrating their purity to appease the Marxist movement.

I guess I gave you too much credit in assuming you didn't read the OP. Clearly you lacked the capacity to understand it even once this was pointed out to you.

Very well said. Very well thought out post. The Marxists have the corporations by the balls. It's scary as hell.

 

[nostradumbass]

quote where I said patriotism was divisive. I said you shouldn't spend millions on millions of tax dollars on overpriced stunts during sporting events. How do you get so triggered by everything lol?

Cultural norms shift over decades and companies move on from old products tied to them and you're in here throwing a bitch-fit about censorship when you don't seem to grasp what the word means.

I'm calmly asking you why you think a woke mob of activists should get to decide what everyone else hears and sees, and you can't seem to stop filibustering and are now on about DOD recruitment ceremonies at halftime shows being a waste of money and falling back to "you're triggered and throwing a bitch fit" and "incels", whataboutisms and false equivilancies and "oh yeah, but someone from the other party". I am not the one demanding movies and shows be taken off the air, I'm not the one looking for offense on board games, I'm not petitioning dictionaries to change the meaning of words, I'm not pulling fire alarms, threatening people and shouting at campus speakers I don't like.

I don't even know if this is a video game or a card game or a board game, but this is a lot of examples all very recently of things being altered, removed and vandalized.

And yes, you did draw an equivalence between patriotic halftime shows and players protesting the country, which was the whole jumping off point for your bizarre tangent.

 

[Halifax]

I am assuming this will make the cut?

Nevermind the fact that they are talking about the different colors of magic. Black, red, White, green and blue.

How the fuck do left wing snowflakes make corporations shudder enough to give a shit about things that literally have nothing to do with race.

 

[Otto!]

Remember this guy that got banned?

Why is he posing next to buttcracks?

 

[ocfightfan]

You're doing it wrong.

You're not supposed to think.

True, thought is not required. Only obedience.

 

[jefferz]

Why is he posing next to buttcracks?

Apparently you've never been to a Magic tournament. You'll find some of the nastiest, most unhygienic people on the planet at these type of events. They make hippies smell like roses.
There's lots of examples of tournaments losing their venue because the participants stink so bad it smells for days after the event is over. Yu Gi Oh actually has a hygiene rule in the official rule book.
Nintendo Smash tournaments are just as bad, there's been people who shit their pants and finish the game.

 

[Bob Gray]

Meanwhile, garnering absolutely no outrage at all is this card:

"Kill them? Thats fine. Just don't dislike them".

 

[Otto!]

Apparently you've never been to a Magic tournament. You'll find some of the nastiest, most unhygienic people on the planet at these type of events. They make hippies smell like roses.
There's lots of examples of tournaments losing their venue because the participants stink so bad it smells for days after the event is over. Yu Gi Oh actually has a hygiene rule in the official rule book.
Nintendo Smash tournaments are just as bad, there's been people who shit their pants and finish the game.

Disgusting

 

[OhBam]

This just in, Crayola removes the black crayon due it being racist.

"Mom, why do black crayons hate black people?"
"The Spanish, dear."