Board Game Designer Phil Eklund Deported From Sweden For Possible "Political" Reasons

In 2021, Pax series board game designer Phil Eklund was canceled by a woke mob, including Rodney from Watch It Played, and now he’s in danger of being deported from Sweden for what the designer says may be “political.”

Phil Eklund is a designer of highly complex board games with a loyal niche audience. The designer is known for innovative gameplay that is extremely complex and tries to marry the mechanics with the theme in a way few designers attempt. His Pax series has gained the most notoriety, and he focuses on building systems around his scientific opinions. He makes his games and does not equivocate his stances on subjects.

At the height of the COVID panic, Board Game Geek and the people surrounding it went around looking for people to cancel. Phil Eklund has very individualistic and nuanced political stances that are difficult to categorize in American terms, but the leftist midwits who form cancel mobs look for compliance on every subject or they try to end someone’s career.

On Board Game Geek, several activists noted that one of his historical games contained slaves. Even though Eklund was clear he was not glorifying slavery or condoning it both in the rulebook and a post on Facebook on the matter. The mob attacked him anyway because they existed with mechanical benefits in the game.