Orwell the Prophet
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell
Not only does the MSM not tell us the truth we don’t want to hear, they tell us lies most of us believe. We have been prepared well for a totalitarian dictatorship.
Ecclesiastes 1: “. . . there is nothing new under the Sun . . . ”
Psalm 35: 20, “They do not speak peaceably, but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land.”
The WHITE MAN is the JEW for post-modern liberal fascists.
Black Lives Matter: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Totalitarianism.
Black Rifles Matter.
It’s even happening in children’s card games.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depictions-racism-magic-2020-06-10
Hey thanks Wizards of the Coast, you utter pandering morons, for increasing the value of the banned cards!
I can see why they’d want to remove “invoke intolerance”– it goes counter the attempted redefinition of racism.
It’s against any other color card.
That said, I can’t help anybody who looks at “cleanse” and goes “oh! Hey, the monsters in that art? That’s BLACK PEOPLE!”
Whuhuh?
“Black Rifles Matter.”
That’s funny. If there is a silver lining here, it’s that any debate over the 2nd Amendment is over for at least some time. The Left can hold contradictory statements in their mush filled heads like “defund the police” and take away all the guns from law abiding citizens”.
But the rest of America can’t.
There has been a small segment here in the Buckeye State that has been pushing to change the name of our state capital Columbus for some time. In the last couple weeks it’s picked up steam, though I can’t imagine the legal nightmares that would be caused by changing the name of a state capital, so I won’t worry too much yet.
Wizards has been “woke” for a long time, with constant pandering to various victim groups, and doing things like avoiding depictions of guns (even muskets) because it would be too triggering to show gun violence. But up until now the wokeness has done little to affect the actual gameplay. (The closest I can remember is a guy getting banned from a tournament for calling his deck “Thugs and Bugs.”)
Now that they are actually banning cards it shows that they don’t care about maintaining the game at all. Note too that they lie about the art being racist. For example, this is the art on crusade:
https://scryfall.com/card/sum/15/crusade
The only way that you can think that is racist is if you think that knights are racist somehow, and if so there’s a lot more cards they’re going to have to ban. No, it was obviously picked either because the name is supposedly offensive to Muslims or because of the effect which benefits white creatures. Similarly Cleanse can only have been chosen because it penalizes black creatures.
So this won’t stop there. There are many, many, more cards which benefit white creatures or penalize black creatures (just as there are many cards which penalize or benefit red, blue or green creatures) and now that they’ve outright banned some of them, there’s nothing to stop them from banning more whenever they need wokeness points.
If you are still playing Magic at this point, swap over to Force of Will instead.
For example, Crovax Ascendant Hero gives bonuses to all white creatures while punishing all nonwhite creatures (even though Crovax himself is black in terms of race while being a white creature in terms of game mechanics). Should anyone bring that up, there’s really no reason for them to not ban him at this point.
There’s 11 cards that punish nonwhite things, and 7 cards that destroy black creatures (beyond cleanse). All of these could easily be banned.
There’s far more cards that punish nonblack creatures, since “black cards can’t hurt black cards” has been a theme of the game from the beginning. (The idea being that a spell of dark energy won’t be able to hurt undead creatures or demons.) I don’t see those cards being controversial.
And wouldn’t you know it, Wizards has outright said that they’re looking for more cards to ban:
https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1270825048241135616
@Rudolph, Force of Will still going? I know it had some trouble there for awhile.
Of course a buddy and I are working on a game we hope to release later this year ourselves… (A restoration & update to the old decipher LotR game.)
We certainly hope people have fun.
I just play Force of Will casually, picking up a box every once in a while and playing with friends. So if it died I honestly wouldn’t notice for a while.
But on their website they just posted an announcement for a GP qualifier yesterday, and they released another set in May. So it looks like it is still going from what I can see, even if its presence in local game stores has basically vanished.
Never forget that Wizards is Hasbro.
And, yeah, the woke just keeps getting more so. D&D 5e has a case of this–especially Jeremy Crawford. But it can be bracketed and ignored.
However, be careful how you DM at GenCon–the wokescolds never rest.
And now they come for Paw Patrol…
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/arts/television/protests-fictional-cops.html
I suppose the networks like Cozi and Antenna TV will now start cleansing our screens of all the old cop shows like Adam 12, Barney Miller (said by a cop I knew in St. Louis to be the most realistic police show ever on TV), Kojak, Columbo, Ironside, Hill Street Blues, etc. Best get hold of them on DVD now if you want to see them again. Woke Walmart and Amazon will probably stop selling them soon, too.
I feel like I’ve awakened to a living nightmare. And there is no place to go to escape it.
Continually collect physical and DRM free media. Do not use any service that requires an internet connection for verification purposes. Anything else can and eventually will be vanished.