Absolutely fails in its current state. If there's anyone responsible for attracting fascists to it, it's GW for for the way it's depicted the Imperium for decades.
Also, apparently chuds were mad when a recent book had a black ultramarine on the cover. But as far as i know this is literallly the first black person ever pictured in warhammer art. You're telling me that humanity has spread to thousands of planets with a population of trillions and everyone is just a white british guy with an aquilline nose?
The funniest thing is that per the lore, any Space Marine not wearing a helmet while in direct sunlight would be black, and then pasty white when they went inside, and sort of tan on a cloudy day, etc, with the only exceptions being the chapters where their photochromatic skin mutation is broken and set to one extreme or the other. Like Space Marines aren't people in power armor, they're basically Super Mutants from Fallout: they have redundant organs, they spit acid, they eat brains to steal their enemy's knowledge, they change color when exposed to light, and they have completely alien minds reworked to have perfect memory and improved ballistic calculation ability.
Also there's fewer than 1 million of them in a galaxy of some 20 quadrillion people, and they each have about the combat effectiveness of a single light IFV. They are outnumbered a hundred million to one by normal human soldiers, a million to one by main battletanks, ten thousand to one by super-heavy tanks, a hundred to one by Titans, and still outnumbered by space craft that can level continents with sustained bombardment. That is to say, they're completely irrelevant in every material way. Saying this is the easiest way to make 40k chuds frothing mad :frothingfash:
But as far as i know this is literallly the first black person ever pictured in warhammer art
It's not the first, 40k art is white as low fat mayonnaise, but like, 5% of the human artwork is of black people.
One of the Emperor’s 20 sons, Vulkan He’stan is black, as are the Salamanders, his legion and all of their successor chapters.
They’ve got their own their own modelsrules and lore books with pictures of them on the front cover.
There was a recent series of 40k childrens books called Warhammer adventures chuds got big mad about that had a black child protagonist featured on the cover art.
And just generally in the 40k lore and art when they’re depicting humans some are depicted as black.
In universe it’s shown as everyone’s too busy hating aliens and mutants to be properly racist to other humans. What’s really problematic, and a big part of the reason why 40k has so much appeal to fascists, is that the imperium’s extreme violent xenophobia towards aliens, mutants and people with different religions is typically portrayed as wise and justified. There is orders of magnitude more 40k media about the Imperium’s extreme xenophobia saving billions of people from horrible deaths than there isof it causing problems or biting the imperium in the arse. It’s often portrayed as horrible, there’s a lot of “we firebombed this entire city of innocent people to kill 1 (one) genuinely dangerous heretic” or “if you fail in your mission space marine we will have no choice but to glass the entire planet from orbit” but it’s not portrayed as ineffective. It’s generally shown that if that one heretic was allowed to live or the mission failed then the entire planet or star sector would die such horrible deaths they would be begging us for the swift release of an orbital bombardment we would no longer be capable of delivering 😔.
Which is the sort of strength and sacrifice, death before dishonour, murder 100 to save 1000, hard men making hard choices slop fascists absolutely adore, so of course they love 40k and games workshop, being spineless capitalists, are more than happy to feed into it and write a once satirical anti fascist piece of media entirely unsatirically so long as they don’t have to engage with real life fascism. This statement is nice, but unless they seriously re-evaluate how they present fascists (as cool horribly effective ubermensch who do WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE) they’re not going to impact the portion of their audience that is fascist or their ideologically based enjoyment of the media Games Workshop is putting out.
Absolutely fails in its current state. If there's anyone responsible for attracting fascists to it, it's GW for for the way it's depicted the Imperium for decades.
Also, apparently chuds were mad when a recent book had a black ultramarine on the cover. But as far as i know this is literallly the first black person ever pictured in warhammer art. You're telling me that humanity has spread to thousands of planets with a population of trillions and everyone is just a white british guy with an aquilline nose?
The funniest thing is that per the lore, any Space Marine not wearing a helmet while in direct sunlight would be black, and then pasty white when they went inside, and sort of tan on a cloudy day, etc, with the only exceptions being the chapters where their photochromatic skin mutation is broken and set to one extreme or the other. Like Space Marines aren't people in power armor, they're basically Super Mutants from Fallout: they have redundant organs, they spit acid, they eat brains to steal their enemy's knowledge, they change color when exposed to light, and they have completely alien minds reworked to have perfect memory and improved ballistic calculation ability.
Also there's fewer than 1 million of them in a galaxy of some 20 quadrillion people, and they each have about the combat effectiveness of a single light IFV. They are outnumbered a hundred million to one by normal human soldiers, a million to one by main battletanks, ten thousand to one by super-heavy tanks, a hundred to one by Titans, and still outnumbered by space craft that can level continents with sustained bombardment. That is to say, they're completely irrelevant in every material way. Saying this is the easiest way to make 40k chuds frothing mad :frothingfash:
It's not the first, 40k art is white as low fat mayonnaise, but like, 5% of the human artwork is of black people.
One of the Emperor’s 20 sons, Vulkan He’stan is black, as are the Salamanders, his legion and all of their successor chapters.
They’ve got their own their own models rules and lore books with pictures of them on the front cover.
There was a recent series of 40k childrens books called Warhammer adventures chuds got big mad about that had a black child protagonist featured on the cover art.
And just generally in the 40k lore and art when they’re depicting humans some are depicted as black.
In universe it’s shown as everyone’s too busy hating aliens and mutants to be properly racist to other humans. What’s really problematic, and a big part of the reason why 40k has so much appeal to fascists, is that the imperium’s extreme violent xenophobia towards aliens, mutants and people with different religions is typically portrayed as wise and justified. There is orders of magnitude more 40k media about the Imperium’s extreme xenophobia saving billions of people from horrible deaths than there isof it causing problems or biting the imperium in the arse. It’s often portrayed as horrible, there’s a lot of “we firebombed this entire city of innocent people to kill 1 (one) genuinely dangerous heretic” or “if you fail in your mission space marine we will have no choice but to glass the entire planet from orbit” but it’s not portrayed as ineffective. It’s generally shown that if that one heretic was allowed to live or the mission failed then the entire planet or star sector would die such horrible deaths they would be begging us for the swift release of an orbital bombardment we would no longer be capable of delivering 😔.
Which is the sort of strength and sacrifice, death before dishonour, murder 100 to save 1000, hard men making hard choices slop fascists absolutely adore, so of course they love 40k and games workshop, being spineless capitalists, are more than happy to feed into it and write a once satirical anti fascist piece of media entirely unsatirically so long as they don’t have to engage with real life fascism. This statement is nice, but unless they seriously re-evaluate how they present fascists (as cool horribly effective ubermensch who do WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE) they’re not going to impact the portion of their audience that is fascist or their ideologically based enjoyment of the media Games Workshop is putting out.