Also as if I hadn't referenced the J.S. Mills essay "On Liberty" several times, on EN World, in the last month or two.
Why would I know this? I've interacted with you in two threads now.
Also, half of what I say isn't directed at a singular poster, but often to a larger audience. You know, everyone else here.
"illegal" and "socially unacceptable" are both significant and they are NOT the same thing...
This is true.
...nor is it merely a difference of degree.
This is false.
While there is a difference between "censored by the government" and "censored by society", either way the end is the same, your voice is not heard.
But before we go much further into the details, remember that this is a multi-national discussion, run from Canada, and the rulings of courts in the USA are not everyone's context.
Canada has nothing to do with this board aside from the statistically insignificant number* of posters.
Morrus lives in the UK and the board is hosted in Coral Gables, Florida USA.
And that last bit is important. If the board were run in the UK I wouldn't be in here talking about anything.
* For comedies sake, 1 in 12 is insignificant.
(A) The storyline of Witcher series is not, in its own words, set in a Poland or Poland-analogue...
Yes, actually it is. The entirety of the story takes place in 'mythic Poland analogue *'.
*AFAIKT. There may be dlc or sidequests or stories or what not. But as far as I've uncovered in my quick research, it's all set in the "Northern Kingdoms", aka mythic Poland analogue.
...which is somehow isolated from the rest of humanity.
No one had ever made that claim.
Regardless of the existence of the middle-eastern looking Zerrikanians, they have no place in the story*, which is centered around Geralt and his travels and travails.
* Aside from one Zerrikanian sorcerer in the first game (so far).
I guess Zerrikania is "everywhere south or southeast of Poland
That would probably actually be Nilfgaard.
...and non-Poles are all the same to me." If a Turk or Roma wandered into historical Poland, would they become a Zerrikanian in The Witcher? Is it true that the only good Zerrikanian is a dead Zerrikanian? (shrug)
That's a lot of reaching. An awful lot.
(B) Whether it's ethical for Poles to decide "only Poles count as characters in the story of our nation", is debatable.
How very monolithic of you. As though a few Poles making a decision on a how they want to write a story is the entirety of all Poles.
Also, it is completely ethical for a few individuals to write that way.
It echoes the direct parallel of Germany deciding that only Aryan Germans count as characters in the story of their nation...
Not even close.
It is currently illegal, in Poland, to publicly name the Poles who actively participated in that process.
That's actually false. It's illegal to call Poland, the Polish people as a whole, and the Polish state "complicit in the holocaust".
It is perfectly legal tp accuse individual Poles of complicity with the Nazis, and the body that created the law and the PM who signed the law, have stated it's purpose quite loudly.
So, to answer your question exactly as asked: no, I do NOT realize that it's okay to treat 1% or .1% or .01% as zero, in a nation where *actual conversion to zero* is a few generations in the past...
Well, I've now informed you that it's okay.
I keep raising, and you keep ignoring, the distinction between "people expressing their opinions in editorials, reviews, or social media posts" versus "harassment by methods such as death threats, rape threats, hacking the target's accounts or websites, and/or doxxing the target's personal information."
Because all of that happebed to the developers at CDPR (and Warhorse Studios).
Do you see symmetry between how the harshest people on the Left treat CD Projekt...
You mean the the death threats, doxxing, etc....
...versus how the harshest people on the Right[1] treat targets such as Leslie Jones, Felicia Day, or more recently, Kelly Marie Tran[2]?
1 - Eh. Not everyone throwing hate at Tran (and the others) is Right. I'm sure there are plenty of lefties throwing as much hate at her (and the others) for no good reason (because that's how people operate). It's not her fault the character stank and is one of the worst things in the movie. She did a good job.
2 - Did CDPR (or Warhorse Studios) receive the vast outpouring of love from the journos after they were hounded, lied about, received death threats, doxxs, harassment, etc?
Of source not, since half the hounding and lies were by those very same journos.
Okay, I imagined that. I would respond: the movie "Black Panther" DIRECTLY ADDRESSES THAT AS A MORAL QUESTION. Wakandans turn away any Hispanics who show up on the border, and prevent them from passing through the non-rural parts of Wakanda, such as the capital city.
Way to miss the point.
The point is (taking Black Panther as our example), that the movie is about the trials and tribulations of a black hero, in a completely* black ethno-state, and what he deals with mostly in that state.
That there are no Hispanics is perfectly okay and anyone crying about it is 'asleep'.
Exactly the point I'm making for the Witcher (and KCD). People crying about the lack of their favored skin tone are missing the point of the setting and the story.
* Yes, I'm ignoring the single white guy who lives there and the other white guy brought in by the black hero. Less than 0.01% is beyond statistically insignificant. Beyond that, there were no Hispanics, so "Where's the Latinos at?" guy is still on point.
Where in Andrzej Sapkowski's stories does Geralt discuss the existence and status of non-Polish humans, in such direct terms, and as a moral issue?
Don't know, never read them. Don't care either as it isn't something I find to be a worrying absence.
There's no gorram way a penny's gonna go from my pocket, to the publisher of a game with an ethno-nationalist storyline; "never forget, never again" runs deep in my values; but that's my personal choice.
But you watched Black Panther (an ethno-nationalist storyline) didn't you? Do you not see the hypocrisy?
So when you say that there's "a campaign of hate from the CNTRL Left", to what extent does that campaign include death threats, rape threats, hacking the target's accounts or websites, and/or doxxing anyone's personal information?
All of it.
Nitpick: unless Southampton somehow recently underwent a very significant relocation, this is actually run from the UK.
By way of Coral Gables.
And I'll echo a "Thanks darjr!" Nice work there.
