Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
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Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#2Paraphrasing, Cleanse removes all black creatures, including foul beats etc
This seems to point at a bigger issue where the black creatures are considered foul?
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#3Paraphrasing, Cleanse removes all black creatures, including foul beats etc This seems to point at a bigger issue where the black creatures are considered foul?
In this case black refers to the card type, and the black type is associated with necromancy and the demonic. I assume that is what foul is referring to?
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#4I have a black monitor. Guess I'll have to throw it away.
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#5Obviously they should be blue or purple. I like purple.
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#6Paraphrasing, Cleanse removes all black creatures, including foul beats etc This seems to point at a bigger issue where the black creatures are considered foul?
Black creatures are "death" creatures, and are things like "Demonic Tutor", "Dark Ritual", "Rune-Scarred Demon"...
Demons and vampires and zombies and things like that.
The use of "Black" as a stand-in for nefarious things is its own problem, but it does not refer the the color of skin in any way in MTG.
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#7Political correctness keeps finding new old, trivial things to retroactively demonize as "racist." At this rate, because one person maybe offended somewhere, all art must be destroyed, and making or possessing art will be punishable by death. "No singing either! Burn the racist heretic!" Has anyone ever surveyed actual gypsies to ask them if they find art in a card game fictional universe to negatively portray them?
Meanwhile, what are the same busybody zealots doing about grotesque socioeconomic apartheid (including criminal justice, disproportionately incarcerating precious minority brothers and sisters for a little weed), neocolonial pan-militarism, inverted totalitarian klepto-plutocracy corruption of democracies by rent-seeking, feudal billionaires, or the origins and prevalence of all types of mass shootings in the US? No, the Redskins need to change their name right now because reasons. [0]
People need to take a stand to reinforce that the social contract is implicit and doesn't need someone else's arbitrary Code of Conduct pseudo-legalese foisted onto every group or else you're somehow signaling that you're a terrible bigot because you don't do what others demand immediately. Oh, and apologize now, tomorrow, and the day after.. and defenestrate your worthless self properly or else!
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins_name_contr...
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#8Here's the actual article from Wizards of the Coast: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depiction...
Here's a link showing the cards themselves: https://scryfall.com/search?q=Invoke+Prejudice+OR+%28%21Clea...
And here's an example of how they look now in Gatherer, the official card database: https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?multive...
An interesting thing to note is that these cards are from before Wizards decided to stop referencing our world in the game and focus entirely on building their own fictional one. One of these cards is from 1999, the rest are from 1993-1994.
The article does hint that they're still investigating whether to remove more.
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#9Direct link to press release, which has 17 fewer trackers than Polygon per uBlock: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depiction...
I can't figure out why Stone-Throwing Devils was banned. They look like garden-variety devils: https://img.scryfall.com/cards/normal/front/d/1/d1c387dd-134...
Re: Racist Magic: The Gathering cards banned, removed from database by publisher
#10It seems to me that there are two distinct types of cards being banned here: cards that actually have real-world racist connatations (Invoke Prejudice, Jihad, Stone-Throwing devils, Pradesh Gypsies), and cards that have unfortunate wording when read by someone who doesn't play the game (Crusade, Cleanse).
I'm glad they're taking a stand on the former, but the latter seems rather silly. I'm no Magic expert, but black and white in the context of the game have literally nothing to do with the skin colour of humans, but are just a label representing the classic fantasy tropes of light and darkness.
That is, assuming I'm not missing something racist in the tiny thumbnails, which is very possible.