Dammit, I had a whole long response to the 'trigger warning' posters but I lost it.
TL;DR - Please stop behaving like you have any clue what actual trauma victims go through because you took Psych 101 or read some armchair psychologist's blog. I've been going to group therapy for nearly a decade, have met dozens if not hundreds of other people with PTSD, and have had this discussion at least half a dozen times in the past few years: raw, realistic depictions of traumatic events can trigger flashbacks, anxiety / panic attacks, periods of extreme depression, and more, but in a decade I've literally never met even one person who personally would, or knew anyone else who would, be triggered by a single word mentioning the trauma they had been through. The only time I've seen someone that sensitive was while in a psych ward, but trigger warnings online wouldn't make a difference because they don't have internet access.
I thought the comic was funny, and while it's in good taste for Wizards to pull it, I wouldn't be pissed off if they had left it up.
To those of you who feel like you have to speak on behalf of trauma victims: most of us are more than capable of speaking for ourselves and wish you'd stop painting us as weak, incompetent husks of our former selves. Personally, I'm more offended by that than 99.9% of the stuff I see online over the course of a month.
In my experience "social justice" is not about the weirdoes' wants or needs, but about what media outlets and the hysterical suburban white women who make them money want us to be like.
I'd rather be called a *** than a queer because the first is just a nonsensical slang no matter how much hatred it's spoken with. The later is a direct implication of abnormality and "queer allies" trying to force gay people to accept being called that is an act of ousting and othering disguised as progressivism.
And now gonna be warned because I don't shut up and do what privileged people tell me to do, like a good pet should.
How exactly does this reference Houston Texas in any way? The one comic image on the thread doesn't seem to have anything that would even come close to it.
How exactly does this reference Houston Texas in any way? The one comic image on the thread doesn't seem to have anything that would even come close to it.
Um, frame 1.
So a bunch of unconscious people means it references the flooding? Even by PC standards that's a stretch.
I can understand wizards taking down something that jokes about devastation in Houston when we're in the middle of real-life devastation in Houston. This was simply unfortunate timing and if they re-release it in a week or two people would joke about it and likely take it in the nature it's intended.
What does piss me off is the whole "trigger warning" concept and how it's being thrown about as a defense for this. The worst part is by in large most of the people screaming about things needing these warnings aren't actually affected in any way by it - they merely dislike the material and assume there statistically must be someone who MIGHT feel that way, and use that as a precept to feel "offended" about it. This creates the concept that the other party has done something offensive, and even so much as challenging the already shaky logic for the whole ordeal create a "victim blaming" complex, to where saying "I'm offended by x" is not only an untouchable attack on "x" but also an unassailable defense against their reasoning for being offended (or lack thereof).
And that's not even going into the fact that trigger warnings DO NOT WORK. It's a psychological paradox. If someone has a genuine fear or something (let's say, elevators. Those can be scary) then psychologists will recommend slow and gradual reintroduction to them. Spend time looking at an elevator from a distance, then gradually get closer, then put a hand on the elevator door, then push the call button, then ultimately get into the elevator. It's classic reintroduction theory, and it works because the brain has time to rewire itself, moving from "elevators are scary" to "elevators aren't THAT scary" to "there's no reason to be afraid of elevators". Eventually you get better and the phobia goes away.
Contrast to the new social justice "ideals", where a person with a fear of elevators should just expect the world to never let them see an elevator without giving them a warning first, which does nothing but reinforce the phobia and force everyone to apologize for having the gall to use elevators for any reason. It's asinine, it's illogical, and for whatever reason it's becoming socially acceptable. And it needs to stop.
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I can understand wizards taking down something that jokes about devastation in Houston when we're in the middle of real-life devastation in Houston. This was simply unfortunate timing and if they re-release it in a week or two people would joke about it and likely take it in the nature it's intended.
Quite the contrary. Many people would not have known about Houston events if it weren't for this cartoon. In other words, it raised awareness and concern for the tragedy to those who are not at Houston. But I guess people who wanted it taken down want Houstoners to deal with their own problems and don't want news of this misfortune disseminated to the rest of the world.
That's one of the deadly side effects of censorship. People think they can stay in these safe bubbles and everything will be fine and dandy. But time and time again throughout history, censorship can ony break down lines of communications and stunt discoveries.
Radical PC-ism really is not as great a threat as you all seem to construe it as. Yes, it is annoying, but outside of largely self-isolating internet groups and college campuses it really hasn't had much effect on free speech(unless you go completely outside of normal rules of civility ie: Trump). I say this coming from a largely far left suburb where I still only encounter it sporadically from the kind of people who would probably be self-righteous anyway.
Quite the contrary. Many people would not have known about Houston events if it weren't for this cartoon. In other words, it raised awareness and concern for the tragedy to those who are not at Houston. But I guess people who wanted it taken down want Houstoners to deal with their own problems and don't want news of this misfortune disseminated to the rest of the world.
That's one of the deadly side effects of censorship. People think they can stay in these safe bubbles and everything will be fine and dandy. But time and time again throughout history, censorship can ony break down lines of communications and stunt discoveries.
You should probably look up what the word censorship actually means before you confuse someone putting a foot in their mouth for censorship in any form.
If you imagegoogle it it's still there, but the article seems to be gone.
Thanks for sharing. As someone who has enjoyed reading the Gitfrog monster story. This comic gave me a good laugh. ^^ In fact, a cosplay friend who does not play mtg enjoyed the gitfrog story too - though she probably won't appreciate some of the jokes in the comic, due to being not an mtg player.
How exactly does this reference Houston Texas in any way? The one comic image on the thread doesn't seem to have anything that would even come close to it.
Um, frame 1.
So a bunch of unconscious people means it references the flooding? Even by PC standards that's a stretch.
It's that plus a direct reference to Houston. "I picked up the trail in the hamlet of Houston." Then it talks about the "devastation" there.
Did I really need to spell this out? I mean, I may not agree with the decision to take it down, but even I can see how WotC would think that a comic that talks and depicts "devastation" in Houston might appear to be insensitive given recent events.
Radical PC-ism really is not as great a threat as you all seem to construe it as. Yes, it is annoying, but outside of largely self-isolating internet groups and college campuses it really hasn't had much effect on free speech(unless you go completely outside of normal rules of civility ie: Trump). I say this coming from a largely far left suburb where I still only encounter it sporadically from the kind of people who would probably be self-righteous anyway.
And I shouldn't be worried about something that's happening in the educational institutions you are required to attend if you want any sort of career why?
Sad this got taken down. I'm aware of the flooding and so on that has happened, but this has no reference to that and you'd have to work hard to get offended by this. Good PR by WOTC to remove it, but still sad to see it down.
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In my experience "social justice" is not about the weirdoes' wants or needs, but about what media outlets and the hysterical suburban white women who make them money want us to be like.
I'd rather be called a *** than a queer because the first is just a nonsensical slang no matter how much hatred it's spoken with. The later is a direct implication of abnormality and "queer allies" trying to force gay people to accept being called that is an act of ousting and othering disguised as progressivism.
And now gonna be warned because I don't shut up and do what privileged people tell me to do, like a good pet should.
So a bunch of unconscious people means it references the flooding? Even by PC standards that's a stretch.
What does piss me off is the whole "trigger warning" concept and how it's being thrown about as a defense for this. The worst part is by in large most of the people screaming about things needing these warnings aren't actually affected in any way by it - they merely dislike the material and assume there statistically must be someone who MIGHT feel that way, and use that as a precept to feel "offended" about it. This creates the concept that the other party has done something offensive, and even so much as challenging the already shaky logic for the whole ordeal create a "victim blaming" complex, to where saying "I'm offended by x" is not only an untouchable attack on "x" but also an unassailable defense against their reasoning for being offended (or lack thereof).
And that's not even going into the fact that trigger warnings DO NOT WORK. It's a psychological paradox. If someone has a genuine fear or something (let's say, elevators. Those can be scary) then psychologists will recommend slow and gradual reintroduction to them. Spend time looking at an elevator from a distance, then gradually get closer, then put a hand on the elevator door, then push the call button, then ultimately get into the elevator. It's classic reintroduction theory, and it works because the brain has time to rewire itself, moving from "elevators are scary" to "elevators aren't THAT scary" to "there's no reason to be afraid of elevators". Eventually you get better and the phobia goes away.
Contrast to the new social justice "ideals", where a person with a fear of elevators should just expect the world to never let them see an elevator without giving them a warning first, which does nothing but reinforce the phobia and force everyone to apologize for having the gall to use elevators for any reason. It's asinine, it's illogical, and for whatever reason it's becoming socially acceptable. And it needs to stop.
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Quite the contrary. Many people would not have known about Houston events if it weren't for this cartoon. In other words, it raised awareness and concern for the tragedy to those who are not at Houston. But I guess people who wanted it taken down want Houstoners to deal with their own problems and don't want news of this misfortune disseminated to the rest of the world.
That's one of the deadly side effects of censorship. People think they can stay in these safe bubbles and everything will be fine and dandy. But time and time again throughout history, censorship can ony break down lines of communications and stunt discoveries.
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You should probably look up what the word censorship actually means before you confuse someone putting a foot in their mouth for censorship in any form.
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Thanks for sharing. As someone who has enjoyed reading the Gitfrog monster story. This comic gave me a good laugh. ^^ In fact, a cosplay friend who does not play mtg enjoyed the gitfrog story too - though she probably won't appreciate some of the jokes in the comic, due to being not an mtg player.
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It's that plus a direct reference to Houston. "I picked up the trail in the hamlet of Houston." Then it talks about the "devastation" there.
Did I really need to spell this out? I mean, I may not agree with the decision to take it down, but even I can see how WotC would think that a comic that talks and depicts "devastation" in Houston might appear to be insensitive given recent events.
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