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The CEO of a boardgame awards show boasted publicly that she’d be disqualifying all nominees who identify as Zionists ,’ her event was quickly dropped from North America’s biggest game convention.
This problem has become especially acute in the game category known as “role-playing,” which was originally popularised in the 1970s thanks to D&D.
As with many other insular art-house subcultures that have been colonised by the social-justice movement , gaming’s freewheeling oddball ethos of live-and-let-live has increasingly given way to one of rigid conformity, social-media surveillance, and, when heresies are deemed to have occurred, mobbing and excommunication.
Some employers in the sector no longer even bother using euphemisms when enforcing discriminatory hiring criteria.
WafflesMapleSyrup produces content known as “Actual Play” ( AP ) in-studio TTRPG sessions that are broadcast on Twitch , YouTube , and other platforms.
Producer Syrup publicly condemned the 7 October 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks.
Syrup was targeted with a low-simmer cancel campaign in late 2023 and early 2024 .
In a lengthy essay, Syrup described the shunning and bullying she’d endured.
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