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I played Risk and literally genocided all of Africa.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:26
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Hey! This CAH and racism stuff and Trump all go together. This Vox article has posted a series of tweets by a dude who points out that 'just joking' normalizes things like racism. Since I'm not able to correctly finagle this into working inline in thread, here's a link to the article instead. quote:This, Steed explains, is why "it’s a joke" isn’t a good defense of racist jokes. By telling the joke, the person is signaling that they think racism is an appropriate thing to express. "Just joking" is just what someone says to the people who don’t appreciate hearing racist stuff — it shouldn’t matter any more than saying "no offense" after saying something offensive.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:26
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SedanChair posted:It's a class thing, I guess. Rude plebs need to be shepherded through a gauntlet of activities to keep them from thinking. SedanChair doesn't have parties, but get-togethers. When he gets together with his friends, they stand in a featureless room speaking to each other in quiet tones, like normal adults. After the prescribed 4 hours of appropriate talking (each person taking breaks appropriately to allow others to participate in the conversation, which occurs in a circle with each person allowed eye contact with the others) they each shake hands and leave.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:26
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Dexo posted:I'm bored so I'll engage. What's racist about Black people? "Black People" is one of the 'answer' cards. Meaning, someone plays an offensive mad-lib, like "The only thing I hate more than ______ is Mondays!" and you play 'black people' And it's oh-so-funny. Because you see, there is nothing funnier than a phrase weighted with hundreds of years of continuous, torturous oppression and literal chattel slavery. The rest of the deck is 'Same thing, but for literally every group that isn't straight white male boardgame designers' The whole thrust of the game is it gives you cover to express your racist/transphobic/sexist beliefs, and hide under a veil of dead-baby and holocaust jokes.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:27
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Deadulus posted:Did you do the housing shortage strategy? Nah, just got really lucky early on. Plus I was using the shoe, which everyone knows is the winning-est piece.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:28
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Bip Roberts posted:I played Risk and literally genocided all of Africa. So you roll-played as Belgium?
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Aug 11, 2016 21:29
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:"Black People" is one of the 'answer' cards. Meaning, someone plays an offensive mad-lib, like "The only thing I hate more than ______ is Mondays!" and you play 'black people' So serious 
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Aug 11, 2016 21:29
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Crow Jane posted:Nah, just got really lucky early on. Plus I was using the shoe, which everyone knows is the winning-est piece. You're thinking of the Race car. Idiot.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:29
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:"Black People" is one of the 'answer' cards. Meaning, someone plays an offensive mad-lib, like "The only thing I hate more than ______ is Mondays!" and you play 'black people' the game allows you to make fun of heteronormativity and white privilige as well just because a game is stupidly transgressive doesn't mean it's the sole domain of cishet white men, this is the kind of empty posturing that discredits leftism by reflexively tarring "thing i dont like" as "bastion of whiteness"
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Aug 11, 2016 21:30
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MariusLecter posted:You're thinking of the Race car. Idiot. Look at this stupid pleb not knowing the Battleship is the best.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:30
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Doctor Butts posted:Hey! This CAH and racism stuff and Trump all go together. It greatly depends on context. There are two potential jokes - "haha black people" and "haha the concept of racism". One reinforces it, one undermines it. It entirely depends on whether it's satirical or not. Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:The rest of the deck is 'Same thing, but for literally every group that isn't straight white male boardgame designers' edit: one must be careful when making "racist jokes" to an audience that are an attempt to undermine racism, because satire straight up doesn't work on half the population, the same reason that Dave Chappelle quit his show back in the day
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Aug 11, 2016 21:31
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Popular Thug Drink posted:the game allows you to make fun of heteronormativity and white privilige as well Yeah but making fun of heteronormativity and white privilege has no effect, so the end result of CAH is to promote racism
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Aug 11, 2016 21:31
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Crow Jane posted:Nah, just got really lucky early on. Plus I was using the shoe, which everyone knows is the winning-est piece. The only winning move is not to play.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:32
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:"Black People" is one of the 'answer' cards. Meaning, someone plays an offensive mad-lib, like "The only thing I hate more than ______ is Mondays!" and you play 'black people' The worst part of the game is that everyone I know likes it so I get to find out which kinds of bigots my friends of friends are when someone brings it to a party. Also the second someone busts it out the entire party huddles around instead of whatever they were doing. Shame on whoever it was that needed am excuse to drink lmfao
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Aug 11, 2016 21:32
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SedanChair posted:Yeah but making fun of heteronormativity and white privilege have no effect, so the end result of CAH is to promote racism i dunno man i play games to entertain myself and friends, not to launch the revolution. maybe this is why i deserve the reeducation camp watch this get spun as "yeah well you play racist games with your cracker friends"
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Aug 11, 2016 21:33
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:"Black People" is one of the 'answer' cards. Meaning, someone plays an offensive mad-lib, like "The only thing I hate more than ______ is Mondays!" and you play 'black people' I haven't played black people in that situation. though i suppose even if I did it would come off way differently. I mean, gently caress, this forum and Twitter gives people the opportunity to be racist. Some people take them up on it others don't. It's all who you play with.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:33
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"I'm not racist, I hate everyone" --CAH players when stripped of the ability to express themselves through slips of paper they have purchased
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Aug 11, 2016 21:33
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there are no games. there is only politics
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Aug 11, 2016 21:34
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It's actually about ethics in raunchy copycat board games.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:35
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maybe just don't take a card game so seriously, i dunno USPOL August: Donald Trump probably plays Cards Against Humanity
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Aug 11, 2016 21:34
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People not playing Settlers of Catan and Merchants and Marauders are human garbage IMHO 
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Aug 11, 2016 21:35
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The same people that use CAH as a veil to make racist jokes are people who are people who are going to do the same during any other social activity.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:36
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I play scrabble sometimes.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:the game allows you to make fun of heteronormativity and white privilige as well Zerilan posted:The same people that use CAH as a veil to make racist jokes are people who are people who are going to do the same during any other social activity. I mean, there's no excuse for "A Poorly-Disguised Tranny" to exist, yet there it is in CAH, like that's an acceptable punchline. (to Max's credit, they took that out of future printings, but it still was printed) Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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Aug 11, 2016 21:36
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:I spend a good deal of my time volunteering at a game store, one which is a registered Safe Space and fosters inclusion and has worked hard to chase out the young white libertarian shithead male demo that makes games stores (and hobby gaming in general) hostile to women and minorities. The people who still come in and play CAH in the cafe are the worst humans on the planet without exception. CAH has lasting appeal only to racists/everything-else-ists, and if someone says they love it, that's a huge red flag. ok thats great but you're confusing a stupid board game with a demographic of people you dont like i'm not trying to defend CAH here like i said i think it's a boring game but you're kind of being a little touch hyperbolic
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Aug 11, 2016 21:37
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The Challenger Explosion and Boistrous were a fun combo in A2A. SedanChair posted:"I'm not racist, I hate everyone" --CAH players when stripped of the ability to express themselves through slips of paper they have purchased Hey, what's wrong with hating everyone? Is there some sort of problem with being an utter misanthrope?
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Aug 11, 2016 21:37
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Boon posted:People not playing Settlers of Catan and Merchants and Marauders are human garbage IMHO It's about the cones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o0BrozMucE
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Aug 11, 2016 21:37
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MariusLecter posted:You're thinking of the Race card. Idiot. The best way to play Monopoly.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:37
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*A joke about the sexual abuse of a child* "Ha ha, wow, that's so bad lol. But I am very chill and nothing phases me" *An article about how a thing you like can be racist* "Whoa. Hold up. Not cool bro. Not cool. How can you say that about my nerdgame, and by extension, me, and furthermore..."
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Aug 11, 2016 21:39
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I love to play this game because it lets me put together bigoted statements I definitely don't think are funny or true. I should not be judged by the things I say or laugh at, during this activity. I don't actually think the cards say valuable or amusing things, which is why I bought them and play with them often.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:41
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Bang the dice game is much better than the card game just saying.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:41
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Sharkie posted:*A joke about the sexual abuse of a child* "I am not mad, I am making fun of you and your Care" *turns beet red, votes Johnson*
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Aug 11, 2016 21:41
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Aug 11, 2016 21:41
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Or take the passive-aggressive route and hide cards like "black people" with the blanks in one of the add-on boxes.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:42
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CAH has more cards about jews so i dont understand why these so called 'allies' are trying to distract from the inherent anti-semitism of the game by complaining about racism
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Aug 11, 2016 21:44
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MariusLecter posted:
Using the "White Privilege" card on this combo instead makes me laugh every time.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:44
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Popular Thug Drink posted:i dunno man i play games to entertain myself and friends, not to launch the revolution. maybe this is why i deserve the reeducation camp real talk, it's weird seeing you post in the rimworld thread. double real talk, i want to play rimworld so bad, but I just moved and I have a bunch of stuff to do. 
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Aug 11, 2016 21:45
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Popular Thug Drink posted:CAH has more cards about jews so i dont understand why these so called 'allies' are trying to distract from the inherent anti-semitism of the game by complaining about racism These two things are not mutually exclusive.
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MariusLecter posted:
I mean, yeah, this is America?
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