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- Talore
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Oct 24, 2016
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Jivanmukta posted a message on Deck main images - Saskia decipheredPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Talore »
You play pillowfort decks but you hate grouphug decks?Quote from Jivanmukta »Quote from Serafiend »Love Saskia, it's exactly the commander you want for 'that' guy on the table. You know the one, the person with the esper control deck and a million ghostly prison and propaganda effects.
As "that guy" I dislike this commander. Not biased at all.
Group hug takes away my ability to deny everyone else the ability to play. I don't find that fun. -
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Victor Sant posted a message on Deck main images - Saskia decipheredPosted in: The Rumor Mill
Alesha is smiling at death, but not at your comment.Quote from thefirefreezesme »while this is literally THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME in Magic's twenty-something year history that openly/explicitly LGBT characters have appeared on a card. -
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Jivanmukta posted a message on Deck main images - Saskia decipheredPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from TearingEons »For WoTC to go forward with a gay couple as the face of a deck is great. And that they chose the Guardians of Meletis as that couple is cool too. Never would have thought this would happen, but I am happy it did. I wasn't planning on getting the non-black deck, but this changes things
I just hope that people are civil to any player that chooses the Guardians.
No. They are group hug. They must be destroyed. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Just say NO to group hug!
W-wait, why are you looking at me like that?
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I'm bowing out now. This ***** is starting to get plenty stressful, and that's not what I asked for by posting in this particular subforum. Congrats on baiting me this far; it's a lot further than I'd normally bother with nowadays.
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Where did I assume that anyone who disagrees with me is against human rights? I thought I was just pointing out the relative inanity of what you were talking about.
I have read what Jenner has said, a hell of a lot. She's a major figure in transgender politics, and that directly affects me. I have to be worried about public opinion, about the state of pro- and anti-transgender legislation. These things can severely limit where I can live in North America, and public backlash against things like allowing transgender people to use public washrooms can increase the already significant risk of being harassed or worse on the street (which has happened to me.) I can barely go a week following transgender issues without hearing about Jenner.
Ultimately, my job is not to sit down with a rich celebrity and try to educate her or have a debate with her. The literature and dialogue is out there; there are people close to her and over the Internet alike trying to educate her, to hear her out and convince her to change her mind. It is her choice to maintain her stance on transgender issues which a vast majority of transgender people do not approve of. As long as a figure with as much influence as Caitlyn Jenner is advocating positions which the majority of transgender people find unhelpful or even harmful, the only thing to do is to denounce her.
This obstructionism for the sake of obstructionism is infuriating. Transgender people are in an inordinate amount of danger today. Even in Canada, gender identity is still not a protected class in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I can legally be discriminated against for being transgender. Transgender people have extremely high rates for being harassed, raped, murdered, or driven to suicide. Action needs to be taken now, not after the endless intellectual masturbation of trying to achieve impossible levels of objective knowledge. The rights of so many of us must not be fought for passively, begging for the nice people to see our way instead of critiquing those who we feel are obstructing these vital measures of protection.
How am I the problem? Every day we fail to act, transgender people are victimized or killed. The gears of marginalization and disenfranchisement are greased with apathy. Acting is the only thing we can do. We must not be driven to fear of offending a public figure because we haven't had tea with them. The voices of the majority of transgender people must not be handwaved just because we could be wrong. We are the victims, the ones affected by legislative negligence. We do have authority on these issues. Our voices matter.
As an aside for those playing at home, one of my favourite games to play is to read something concerning transgender rights and then swap the subject. Turn transgender into black or women/females and see how the post reads. It is an amusing way to spot how similar the arguments being brought up today mirror other movements, such as the civil rights movement in the 60s.
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Nice things like being able to use a public washroom, employers barred from refusing to hire you based on your gender identity, and such? It'd really suck to have to worry about not having nice things like that.