Scandals in the Cottage: The 800 Pound Nazi In the Room

First off, Veneger Satanis is not a Nazi. He is not racist, so that excludes him from the white supremacist camp. He isn't a homophobe and is something of an admitted libertine so that places him out of the religious wingnuts that go on drooling over autocrats like Vladimir Putin. No. No. He likes to dress things up in lethal-looking trappings (Metal) to impress the ladies and is very anti-liberal, more like a fascist from Mussolini's Italy. That said he is not a Nazi. Whomever banned one of his fans from a forum (Discord?) with the justifying statement, "(This Dude) supports a Nazi" isn't just wrong about the details either.

Many of my gaming friends do not like the man. That is their privilege. We're a really liberal bunch and believe in stuff like liberties and diversity, none has ever told me not buy and read his products. It might be because I am older than most of them, but it is probably more the fact that we are most over the age of eighteen and don't condescend to each other. I mean we go from crypto-fascist to communist to capitalist-anarcho (see Star Wars) to pervert in our views, telling each other what to think would just make things boring.

Mind you, like the Mussolini fascists, Darrick's, that is his name, crowd tries to have it both ways. Always looking for the slight to justify their outrage. He's called for wingnut gamers to boycott GenCon, though he and the Frog-Brigade have been doing since ticket prices outpaced their wallets a few years ago-- if the horse dies, walking is a great way to get your steps in I hear. Then they're always worried about what other gamers of differing ilks, especially the SJW-oriented crowd, are doing. His own forum on FacetuBe has restricted my activities there because my sarcasm at their nonsense was too cutting for their supposedly thick-skinned views. Still, resorting to this because they do it does not justify anybody else seeking the moral high ground doing it. 

No the real Nazi-ish thing is the bad taste of the moderator. Sure they can ban whomever they like, it's a free Western Civilization after all, but to single out a game designer in our hobby is bad taste. If the commenter had an agenda, which the Frogs often do, and kept bringing up Venger Satanis though the topics he was commenting in had nothing to do with that, it's called spamming-- there is a real reason. Otherwise, just keeping their mouth shut would've not played so easily into the pointless Banning/Cancelling subculture the cottage is getting bored with.

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