@GF said in Comic Games Are Still Fun!:
@renaveleigh said in Comic Games Are Still Fun!:
Not talking about anything political on the channel is a rule that I’m happy to abide by.
The main thing confusing me is, how is Alex Jones a political topic? If he’s politics, then what topic isn’t politics?
I mean, he is inherently political because much of his rhetoric is inherently political, but the only real answer to ‘what topic isn’t politics’ is ‘none’. Everything is politics. But in general ‘politics’ is used as shorthand for ‘discussion issues that are currently socially charged and which might create an argumentative situation’.
In the long run, what constitutes acceptable or inaccpetable political rhetoric/commentary on any one site/game falls under the purview of what the owners/runners identify as not worth the headache, which is fair.
Essentially, if you don’t like where a game runner or site owner draws the line on what political rhetoric is or isn’t acceptable, chances are you’ll be happier elsewhere; but that’s also how we get rhetorical hotboxes of veiled political discourse. I personally try to leave my (very strong, very loud, very intense) political rhetoric as absent in my game’s OOC discussions as I can, which is often not as much as other people wish I would.
But I try, for other people. In places where I’m the only one affected, though, I tend to run a lot wilder.