Re: Numetal/Retromux
I may not have used the right command to reply.?we will see when I post.
I play on retro a little bit, but I am not very active as life is busy. I get along fine with the staff there, but I am not close friends with them.
The game has its problems. There are pros and cons to playing there. It isn’t perfect by any means.
I am Jewish with close connections to Israel. I have been open about such and my character is openly Jewish as well.
My family and myself have been experiencing increasing antisemitism in our lives.
While mush community has some issues I very much appreciate that my interactions with the mush community have been safe from antisemitism, including my interactions with retro and with the staff of retro.
I understand that just because I have not experienced antisemitism doesn’t mean others have not.
That being said, I didn’t like what I understood to be a passive aggressive and bad faith implied allegation of antisemitism in the thread.
First of all it trivializes real antisemitism. Second it is a horrible thing so it better be true or at least have some real evidence imo. It also if believed could scare people away from retro and pokes at the antisemitism free safe place that retro and other games have been. It also doesn’t make the Jewish people look great to say this dishonestly and can actually increase antisemitism. It can also discourage people from reporting when it really happens or believing people when they report.
I understand he claimed the implied allegation was an accident and said he isn’t going to waste his time pondering if his ban and the antisemitic comment were linked, but unless I missed it I didn’t hear an apology to retro staff. I don’t really believe it was accident so much as a passive aggressive poking to see if people will be more on his side or think maybe staff banned him out of racism.
In addition he still said not going to waste my time pondering the link, which to me read like was still
Implying there could be a link.
Anyways, I was ready to believe staff was too hard on him and character generation was ridiculous until I read the casually dropped and maybe maybe just maybe but I won’t say it directly or provide any evidence staff is antisemitic.
With all the real dangerous scary antisemitism going on to use it flippantly as a card to pull in petty mush issue about character generation is lame.
I realize this is beating a dead horse, I been stewing on this I read his posts and finally got the nerve to comment.
