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[Sacrosanct]

At some point, you have to accept that the schtick is him. And if it’s not him, but he keeps sticking to it, he‘d rather be known for it than being himself. Either way, it’s pretty damning.

Not only that, but he keeps welcoming people into his home who are avowed racists, right wing extremists who have espoused support for violence against people of different ideologies, and other people who if you keep inviting into your home, people are gonna assume you agree with them. Not to mention his own awful stuff he's said over the years.

So no, I don't think any self respecting person would do an interview with them, whether it's an act or not. Alex Jones said it was all an act in his court appearance, but no reasonable person would do an interview with him.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

…saints are hard to find these days.

Side note: saints aren’t perfect; they’re sinners too. They just happen to have done something extraordinary in the furtherance of the faith.

 

[Gradine]

Yeah. I can't say you don't have a right to judge the man as you choose, other than to note that saints are hard to find these days.

People are certainly complex, and perfectly allowed to be so. That said, "not associating with rabid bigots" seems like an incredibly low bar for decency, and yet...

 

[Gradine]

Pundit has said plenty of wrong things and I find him deeply annoying and I tell him fairly often that he is full of...poop. But he's not David Duke or H.P. Lovecraft's ghost.

I remember the things these three men said about people like me when the PHB's gender inclusiveness dropped.

I did not choose these examples lightly, and I stand by them.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

People are certainly complex, and perfectly allowed to be so. That said, "not associating with rabid bigots" seems like an incredibly low bar for decency, and yet...

There’s an internationally known architect who is one of the tenured prof at a university in the southern USA. He has done a lot of work in underserved- read, predominately black- communities near his school with his students as part of their education.

But he has been pressed on his friendships with known racists. They are not just some random guys- this is where he was raised and still lives; these are literally his lifelong friends. He knows them for what they are, but the friendships continue.

While these facts pain me, I imagine for him, dropping these people from his social circle- or more accurately, removing himself from theirs- would be as difficult as distancing one’s self from family. It might be virtuous to do so, but not every person has that kind of strength within them.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I should not, in the year 2021, have to explain why patronizing RPG Pundit is unacceptable.

I would respectfully submit that you're assuming this thing I've never heard reference to in my life before this thread is a lot more universally known than it is.

 

[Gradine]

Can we please stop pretending that
(a): Jim Ward joined RPG Pundit and his merry band of bigots without knowing a single thing about them and their reputation, and
(b): That Ward likely doesn't align with them, politically?

 

[Gradine]

Also, y'all seem to have forgotten this was a thing that happened early on in this whole debacle:

Jim Ward is retweeting alt-right "its the wokescolds' fault!" videos.

He's not a good dude. Sorry not sorry

 

[Thaumaturge]

I would respectfully submit that you're assuming this thing I've never heard reference to in my life before this thread is a lot more universally known than it is.

This article gave me some insight into who Pundit is.

Thaumaturge.

 

[Mannahnin]

Can we please stop pretending that
(a): Jim Ward joined RPG Pundit and his merry band of bigots without knowing a single thing about them and their reputation, and

This actually seems quite plausible. No pretending required. He's an old guy not involved in gaming social media. And if we didn't all know that he's out of touch with the modern scene before he posited GiantLands as the first fantasy post-apocalypse game, we do now.

(b): That Ward likely doesn't align with them, politically?

Unfortunately you may well be right on this one, especially if he smiled and nodded through the whole thing, as I am informed he did (haven't given them the click).