It's neither. Early D&D Nerds were always apolitical at worst and leaned slightly left at best, which stood to reason as it was the religious right claiming at the time that D&D would shove your children into the bowels of El Diablo. As time went on conservative D&D players emerged as part of a counterculture, and gave rise to a more centrist D&D fanbase. This was a good thing, no matter how assholes like the writer I verbally butt-fucked claim otherwise.
The thing is, the same reason these shitheads keep going after fucking every hobby and pushing the same shit is because they fundamentally do not believe in escapism that does not push their personal politics. In their worldview, anything that doesn't push their viewpoint does not have a right to exist.
The same arguments the dipshit whose article I mocked makes are the same fucking arguments made by the usual suspects in Vidya. The hobby is too loaded with fascists, they argue. Games are too violent, they claim. These games don't care about my own sensabilities, they argue. These games demanding actual skill gatekeep too much, they pontificate. And, just like the original writer, their solution is not play something else that does cater to them, it's forcing everything the fuck else to conform to their world-view, even games and genres that by all accounts they never play in the first place.
It's always about control with these fuckers. Ridicule them, for it is what they deserve.
I was referring to general nerds, not just TT fags.
-Like comics, bro? Better have some stacks of you want to be a "serious" collector. (Need an extra room for all those extra boxes)
-Wanna be a wargamer? Better have lots of money to buy your minis. And either a car to transport your stuff or a roomy house to host at.
-Gaming consoles/PCs ain't cheap, nibba
-Gonna play RPGs? Gonna GM? Not autistic enough/don't have enough time to world build? Better have a high-paying job to buy all those books and supplements.
-Audiophile? That HiFi set gonna cost you.
-Like toy collecting bruh? See my argument about comics.
Admittedly I only started being a nerd in the mid 90's, but of all the nerds I met, very few were liberal. There may have been one or two edgy kids sitting in a corner, but the majority of nerds I met believed in science and working hard for what you wanted, and had conservative political beliefs.
The moralfags that went after D&D in the 80's were the same hold-out puritans that went after rock 'n' roll in the 70's and pokemon in the 90's. For that crowd, anything that wasn't church, sports, or work was heresy. If the word demon was present, regardless of the context, then the thing being targeted was verboten.
The modern (read: far) left complain about the religious crowd all too often without seeing that their behavior is the exact same. "Me no like, thing is bad, REEEEEE!"
