Whisperfoot said:OK, the above came from the Erik Mona blog thread.
Now, I'm going to attempt to talk about politics without talking about politics. Actually what I'm interested in is whether or not people who write games, or are in the eyes of a given community, should associate themselves with politics.
Now, I'm going to come right out and say this because it is pertinent to the conversation. I am pretty left leaning. I suspect Erik's a little more to the left than I am, but that's irrelevant. I've been known to get my hands dirty at *cough* another forum *cough*, and wade into the political discussions. Like me and Erik, Sean K. Reynolds has been known to post political material on his website and his remarks can be pretty inflamatory.
I know that airing your political views here in these forums is not acceptable, and after seeing how things go on that other forum from time to time, I now see clearly why Morrus and Eric before him kept it off the boards. I support that decision on these boards. Frankly, there are people who are the coolest people to talk to until you start discussing those topics, and then things get all hostile.
On the other hand, shouldn't artists feel free to express their political views in the appropriate venues without doing so completely anonymously? If Erik has a blog where he discusses games, politics, and anything else that happens to be on his mind, wouldn't censoring that be untrue to himself?
I'm not really posting this because I have an agenda. I'm curious what people really think about this.
Okay as a conservative republican. About as for off of you left leaning folks as possible... i agree. If its your own blog site you should be able to say whatever you want. For instance my name is Tim. If i had a website (www.timsopinion.com type of thing) and i said that penguins are the evil spawn of satan, canadians are midgets are planning to overthrow america and only the spork can save us. Well its my website and thats my right. The same as anyone else. No one has to go to your website, no one has to read your blog. No one has to approve of what you say or do.
Thats the great thing about online, a thing even better then what TV has. If you dont like what someone has to say then you dont have to hear it. Beyond even websites, on forums, like this one and the WOTC forum. There is an ignore option, you dont to even see anything someone has offended you had to say. You dont even have to leave the website to ignore someone you find offensive.
In closing, political correctness sucks, quit being such a , suck it up, deal with it, accept that not everyone is gonna agree with you, and be an adult.
Edit: slight mimicking of a profanity filter. --Dinkeldog
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