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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8320593" data-attributes="member: 7026594">There are no mobs here, Rob.  There are individual angry and disappointed people, and justifiably so.Ernie, in an interview to promote his new company, chose to try to make a selling point of "enforcing" gender roles and dismissing modern concepts of gender identity.  That was his choice.He also chose to air his misguided grievances about WotC putting a mild disclaimer on old materials they're selling online as containing the occasional outdated stereotype and prejudicial bit of content and misrepresent that as an attack on his dad, and folks like you.  Which it's quite clearly not. In doing so he was parroting a sentiment I've seen from several reactionary gamers online.He also made himself look bad with unprofessional complaints about Kickstarter charging fees (which he knew about up front) and the government collecting taxes on his six figure Kickstarter.  How dare they?  And complaints about his accountant.  And blame for Benoist, his writing partner, for the Marmoreal Tomb being five years late.  No personal responsibility.  Just pointing the finger of blame at others and ducking responsibility.He has also partnered with a clear bigot and inveterate internet troll (Justin LaNasa) who clearly delights in offending, and who has solicited donations to his "Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum" which is a for-profit business.  And has repeatedly misrepresented his company as representing old school creators it doesn't actually employ.  Who appears to have a business model founded on deceit.All these are Ernie's choices.  His actions and his words.No one is trying to kill him.  No one wants his literal blood.  No one is trying to pass laws to restrict his rights or freedoms as part of a collectivized, marginalized group.People are angry at him, individually, over his bad choices.Respectfully, your language about bleeding and ruination exaggerates and distorts the facts of the matter, and your "the worst elements from both of these sides will prevail as has always been the case in human history" is ahistorical nonsense unworthy of a person of your erudition.I am sorry your friend Ernie has done these things.  I appreciate that you intend to reach out to try to help him come to his senses.  I am sure you are right that he is, at heart, a good person.-------------------------"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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