drctuv

Today’s example is: Phylactery

In d&d:

In real life

That’s right. they named the evil artifact that the evil undead spellcaster hides their soul in after a Jewish ceremonial object.

when you come across that you should at the table paralyzed wondering

Do my fellow players know this is anti-Semitic?

If they don’t know and I bring it up will they be mad at me for ruining the fun?

If they do know and I bring it up will revealing myself as Jewish be dangerous?

Attention goyim: Jews don’t use the word phylactery. That’s stupid and greek. They’re called Teffilin.

(Image sources: https://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/treasuresofheaven/)

Also op’s insistence that “before d&d Phylactery only had one definition” is just an outright falsehood.  A phylactery is a fancier word for a reliquary, which is an ornate sealed container that holds a fragment of the mortal remains of a Catholic saint, usually a bone.

Gee, what magic item could that have inspired in D&D? Hm?

posts like the above and the ones about golems being off limits for fantasy are trying to instill in you a subconscious, automatic reaction, when you see anything jewish, to flinch away and feel like you’re going to be in trouble if you interact or talk about it.

Okay, consider this: you can put drow in your setting minus all the weird bd*sm flavored society, the weird fetish stuff, the obsession with sex and the skimply clothing. Or, uh, the whole nonsensical murder and hating everything and everyone 24/7 and the whole “no, drow can’t love things, they just do not understand what it is, it’s not in their nature” (which was canon in 3.5e, btw)

Even better, try to regard them as an intelligent race that isn’t inherently inclined to evil just because they’re drow! No one is born evil! Cultures exist, and no race has “absolute irredeemable bastard” written in their genetics! No one considers humans evil as a whole just because some fucked up societies existed!

The vast, vast, VAST majority of the destruction was caused by someone else - mostly cops and white supremacists.

First, we have what Dasha SAID, which was ‘never called blm rioters terrorists‘

This is specifically the context of the statement, that there was no condemnation of RIOTERS, no accusation of terrorism on their part.

This leads to Ari’s response, which was ‘Because BLM was completely peaceful in 93% of all BLM protests since May. And that’s if we count “spraying graffiti” as violence.‘

So, what can be noted of that reply? Why, it’s a literal dismissal of the SPECIFICS of Dasha’s point, through deflection. Dasha was talking about Riots, so Ari tried to make it about PROTESTS. Even if we accept Ari’s numbers (which we have no reason to do so, with how disingenuously he uses them) then he’s still attempting to dismiss the 7% of behavior that IS BEING DISCUSSED because the 93% he approves of wipes it away in his mind.

That’s point one in how shit Ari is, but we do have a point two as well.

‘The vast, vast, VAST majority of the destruction was caused by someone else - mostly cops and white supremacists.’ is Ari’s second, UNSOURCED, claim. Now, a statement like this really does call for evidence, right? or at least an evidentiary theory, something to show a proof of white supremacists doing the burning and destruction. It’s a claim he’s made many a time.

It’s a clam I’ve NEVER seen him offer evidence for.

Now, TO BE FAIR (which is more than what Ari deserves) quite a bit of the destruction was done by white people. But even that’s not a defense, because the USA is a WHITE MAJORITY POPULATION. And despite what fuckery goes on in Ari’s racist mind, white people don’t default to white supremacy. The REALITY is that most of the destruction was done or just started by white anarchist groups who used BLM as an excuse to act out. But that’s a layer of complexity, and Ari doesn’t handle complexity well. After all, if this is true, his left-wing coalition of protestors are really full of absolute shitheads. That can’t be so, so they have to be secretly on the other side!

“Dasha, please condemn White Supremacist terrorism attempting to overthrow the government with violence and revert American elections.”

“No. I refuse. I wanna talk about BLM instead.”

“But BLM is mostly peaceful.

“Don’t deflect >:( Only I’m allowed to do that.”

“quite a bit of the destruction was done by white people. But even that’s not a defense, because the USA is a WHITE MAJORITY POPULATION”

Fun Fact, this logic ALSO works in reverse: The reason people think BLM is violent without doing research beforehand is because there’s been thousand of BLM protests, across hundreds of locations over months of protests. As opposed to one protest, becoming a riot immediately, because it was coordinated with the express intent of attacking the goverment directly

“The vast majority of demonstration events associated with the BLM movement are non-violent (see map below). In more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement, demonstrators have not engaged in violence or destructive activity. Peaceful protests are reported in over 2,400 distinct locations around the country. Violent demonstrations,4 meanwhile, have been limited to fewer than 220 locations — under 10% of the areas that experienced peaceful protests.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/04/us/blm-protests-peaceful-report-trnd/index.html

There's an even higher amount of cops who never shoot anyone in their entire careers, but BLM still acts like it's endemic.

And it's not like BLM was actually disavowing the violence some of it's members. More like 'pretending it didn't exist'. Including you, personally, so this is extra hypocritical.

And may I remind you of how the left reacted to the lockdown protests, which were peaceful unless you count “protesting with guns”? 

>The vast, vast, VAST majority of the destruction was caused by someone else - mostly cops and white supremacists.

Yes, I'm sure you can prove that all those black people looting stores were white supremacists. 88ers are getting really diverse these days. You totally did an in-depth study on the beliefs and identities of the people causing the destruction.

/s

And is this you trying to backdoor the 'agent provocateurs" theory? Sure is funny how BLM kept bailing them out, then.

>Also, the riots were caused by decades of police brutality and racism, while the assault on Capitol was caused by Trump inciting his followers to subvert the election. Slightly different.

Ah, yes, the racism BLM has never proven, ever, and the brutality it's often wrong about.

I like how you phrase this like there was no actual choice involved in BLM's actions, to the point that you don't explicitly mention any people doing anything at all.

How is destroying black neighbourhoods and businesses supposed to help black people, exactly?

How many ‘Trump followers’ are doing the ‘invading’? Because I’d say it was much less than 7%. The “domestic terrorists” look more likely to be victims of violence than assailants. 

If just showing up and being intimidatig is domestic terrorism, how about the folks who tried to burn down courthouses?

Roxy > Dasha was talking about Riots, so Ari tried to make it about PROTESTS.

Standard BLMer tactics. Just blatantly reframing the argument.

BBD > “Dasha, please condemn White Supremacist terrorism attempting to overthrow the government with violence and revert American elections.”

Other ones include: falsely claiming that X is a natural urge; trying to justify your own willing decisions by claiming "But humans are naturally programmed to do what I did! It was instinct!"; claiming that certain racial groups are "naturally programmed" to be criminals; and more.

And you have no way to prove their posters' intent.

And you can't be sure at least some of these posts weren't made by the same guy.

You call THAT the scientific method?

You were the one that said collecting anecdotes makes the scienzific method. But that's only true when you document and evaluate them. THAT'S what makes it scientific.

Everyone should periodically reblog the Tiananmen Square copypasta from time to time to purge your blog of communist spies 😌

On the other hand, this isn’t a link to inform people of what had to be an unfortunate industrial accident that got caught far too late, this is some yahoo claiming that this somehow wouldn’t have happened in a non-capitalist system.

Presumably because in that case there wouldn’t be that much ice cream made in a day for an entire country, but hey.

Of course, being a decent person, I HAVE THAT LINK, and a note: When they do recalls of this sort, it’s not because ALL the tubs have metal shavings, it’s because they don’t know WHICH tubs have it. Every tub of ice-cream that was produced from the last point they knew it was safe to the point where they know for sure it wasn’t safe HAVE TO BE RECALLED.

He was shot in the chest... That's really uncommon and is in fact considered one the worst way to commit suicide with a gun. It is much more painful and often times slower. Source.

For this reason alone, I have a hard time believing he killed himself. It's not like politicians don't already have a long trail of mysterious suicides from people who would have gotten in their way. The Clinton's are the biggest example of this. Source.

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