Yeah, but not generally so overtly racist, and JK Rowling has earned a lot of animosity for being queen of the terfs, so this one's getting much more critique than other games do. Which is really a sign that most games need to be critiqued harder if they express any kind of politics.
On top of this, Rowling is also an outspoken Blairite who hates Jeremy Corbyn almost as much as she hates trans women - to the point that surprisingly horny Corbyn expies have appeared in two of her novels now. And a large part of Corbyn's purging from Labour leadership (and a large part of the negative portrayal of JKs first Corbynesque fictional character) was about allegations of antisemitism that were founded on his support for Palestinians. Not his extreme fondness for making up wizard stories about gold-hoarding, blood-drinking, scheming, greedy, long-nosed, big-eared, hand-wringing banker pariahs that are a pain in the ass to negotiate with. And that have the star of david as a floor ornament in their bank in case somebody missed that they are every single antisemitic stereotype combined.
Seriously, it's quite something to see how such a prominent Corbyn hater shows her entire antisemitic ass over and over again. It's really always projection with these people.
Absolutely. It's astonishing that she gets next to no pushback, and when she does, she doubles down. For a woman who wrote books for millennials about how love is the ultimate magic, she sure is a hateful, combative person.
Sure, but usually in a careless way from being submerged in a fashy culture, while this one hits so many specific things it almost feels like they did it on purpose
There’s a difference between “bad politics” and a mountain of very specific anti-Semitic tropes
Sure, but usually only in much more benign liberal ways. "good monarch fights against evil bad monarch" or "good democracy fights against evil tyrant" or "Great Man™ singlehandedly destroys all the bad guys" kind of stuff. Not "the evil dirty jews are trying to get rights so you need to stop them"
I'm not defending this, but don't like 99% of video games have bad politics?
Yeah, but not generally so overtly racist, and JK Rowling has earned a lot of animosity for being queen of the terfs, so this one's getting much more critique than other games do. Which is really a sign that most games need to be critiqued harder if they express any kind of politics.
On top of this, Rowling is also an outspoken Blairite who hates Jeremy Corbyn almost as much as she hates trans women - to the point that surprisingly horny Corbyn expies have appeared in two of her novels now. And a large part of Corbyn's purging from Labour leadership (and a large part of the negative portrayal of JKs first Corbynesque fictional character) was about allegations of antisemitism that were founded on his support for Palestinians. Not his extreme fondness for making up wizard stories about gold-hoarding, blood-drinking, scheming, greedy, long-nosed, big-eared, hand-wringing banker pariahs that are a pain in the ass to negotiate with. And that have the star of david as a floor ornament in their bank in case somebody missed that they are every single antisemitic stereotype combined.
Seriously, it's quite something to see how such a prominent Corbyn hater shows her entire antisemitic ass over and over again. It's really always projection with these people.
Absolutely. It's astonishing that she gets next to no pushback, and when she does, she doubles down. For a woman who wrote books for millennials about how love is the ultimate magic, she sure is a hateful, combative person.
Sure, but usually in a careless way from being submerged in a fashy culture, while this one hits so many specific things it almost feels like they did it on purpose
There’s a difference between “bad politics” and a mountain of very specific anti-Semitic tropes
Not a lot of games have the protocols of elder zion as their game dev spec
Sure, but usually only in much more benign liberal ways. "good monarch fights against evil bad monarch" or "good democracy fights against evil tyrant" or "Great Man™ singlehandedly destroys all the bad guys" kind of stuff. Not "the evil dirty jews are trying to get rights so you need to stop them"
Fair. I guess I was mostly thinking of Skyrim. I'm not much of a g*mer
Yes, but I'd hardly say they ever get THIS bad