@Yronimos Whateley
I never said you attacked anyone in the thread. I implied that you were. Your attacks were not direct, they were done through implication, so you could easily deny them. You reframed objection to a kit as an attack on people who like the kit, and made up a weirdly specific example of someone who apparently gets some sort of sadistic pleasure from it.
I don’t think anyone was worried that a person LARPing as 2000 year old elven vampire would somehow do something bad with the kit because they have an interest in torture. You made that up as some sort of weird deflection. My point was that if someone has an objection to a kit, maybe it is worth listening to what that objection is, or thinking why it could be something objectionable.
At first I did not intend to continue this discussion, while the word you were using, and the way you were using them is very obvious to me. I was not sure if it was something you were aware of. I thought maybe you just picked up that way of speaking about these issues from other people, not knowing the ideas behind it.
But reconsidering, it doesn't really matter if you are aware. I can still point out what is going on.
You bring up discussion of racism and orcs. This actually is a discussion that has a lot of merit to it. We know Tolkien was anti-fasist because of his response to the appropriation of his ideas by fascists. So the question is why would they want to use his ideas.
You bring up the word triggered, using it incorrectly, in a mocking manner. Or if you were using it correctly, you seem to feel that people who have PTSD from being attacked by some sort of gov’t affiliated group should not be able to discuss their accessibility needs.
You mention your made up vampire and how he “isn't very good at keeping his malfunction a secret.” Not sure why you are talking about his “malfunction” like that, it seems you are trying to give him bad characterizations of mental illness, or bad characterizations often assigned to people accused of faking mental illness. In either case the vampire, and the occurrence rate of people like him, and how easy it is to discover them, is not really at all important to the idea that a set of plastic minis is tasteless
I’m almost done with this community at this point. If statements like yours are allowed to stand unchallenged, it is looking like WGA cares more about protecting people who can’t handle critical discussion of things they like, then the harm the criticism is pointing out.
