So I have already covered how this transgirl got banned from RPGnet as a sacrifice for their attempt to virtue-signal and gain woke points, but following recent events I think it’s high time we examine how RPGnet had became a cesspool little better than any other RPG site, and in some respects may actually be worse. So, here we go:
One thing that had set RPGnet apart from other major RP sites is a relatively active tangent section where politics is discussed. The position of the mods is best described as True Centrist AKA Lawful Stupid: people have been banned by calling members of the Tea Party “Teabagger” even when some of the Teabaggers identify as such.
If you’re a queer person or queer ally being alarmed by how similar this is to how Twitter silences queer people for using the term TERF to describe transphobes who once proudly identified themselves as TERFs, and rightfully see it as a huge red flag of the underlying Fascism in their thinking, then you’re wiser than I was back then.
LibraryLass, another transgirl who was active on RPGnet, is permanently banned for publicly challenging the mods…after they warned her and banned her for trivialities like saying “slaying evil people isn’t evil”. And of course, since she didn’t play by their rules and send an e-mail to a private gmail account, she deserved all the worst.
Do you see the pattern here? They’d find the slightest controversy in the opinion of a trans person, twisted it into something sinister like “identity policing” or even good old “genocide” as a ground to ban trans people. And when you rightfully demand an honorable discussion in the public, they ban you more because that’s their rules.
How much would you like to bet that if we’re not trans and hadn’t proudly wear the trans flag colors in our avatars, our posts would never have been reported and thus examined? If we had made it clear that we’re cishet white men like the majority of the users, we’d have gotten a chuckle and a pat on the back whatever we do.
And how about the thing that they didn’t do? They hype up Cyberpunk RED as much as they want, completely oblivious to the obvious transphobia of the writer; they care more about whether there should be luchadores in Harry Potter than the fact that the writer wants to eradicate Jews and trans people from the face of the Earth.
They also enjoyed patting themselves on the back on how Guardian mentioned their banning of Trump supporter, willfully ignorant to the fact that Guardian had been a important factor in publishing TERF propaganda and contributing to UK hate crimes against queer people, because they’re too busy circlejerking to give a fuck about it.
And when I, once again, broke the news to them in good faith, warning them that the Guardian article is really singling them out to be a target of right-wingers, they not only banned my alt, they also deleted my posts, because in their mind playing by the rules is more important than human rights or basic decency or even people’s lives.
And lo and behold, a Trump supporter joined the forum with the totally subtle user name of “rpgnetsucks” for the explicit purpose of trolling them. None of these would have happened if they had just listened, but they’d rather kneel and suck on Fascist dicks than to listen to minorities outside of their echo chamber, so there you go!
Of course they’re not talking about Andy getting punched by Antifa; that’s too violent for their delicate Liberal minds; of course they removed the queer subforum; they’d say it’s because its lack of activity, but when you’ve pretty much banned every trans women from your forum, maybe you just didn’t created a LGBT-friendly space?
Make no mistake: these Liberals are not comrades to leftists, nor are they friends to Democrats; when they can barely raise their voice against oppression with nothing at stake, you can’t count on them for anything: not voting, not fighting, not anything except eating the shit that came out of a Fascist asshole while in their echo chamber.
They are closeted white supremacists, misogynists, homophobes, and transphobes, each and every last one of them, they just don’t have the guts to own up to their own shit, which is why when push comes to shove, most of them would stand with the Fascist to save their skin – the only thing they have after they gave up their spines.
What they don’t realize is that when the left and the progressive and the Liberals who actually give a shit are all gone, they’re going to be the left. So when the Fascists eventually go into their echo chamber to convert the faithful and exterminate the dissidents, there will be absolutely no one left to help them, and they’d deserve it.
The best thing you can do for them, the only thing you can do for them, is to go into their echo chamber and shout at them until they snap out of their complacency; most of them will show their true colors as Fascist collaborators, but a rare few good souls would awaken, choose a side and join the fight before it’s too late for all of us.