Gencon used to be known as the best place in the world for tabletop and board gamers. With nearly 50,000 attendees every day and nearly every game publisher setting up shop for sales of new games, exclusives, and countless opportunities to play, it is a bucket list event for many a nerd. However, over the last decade, the convention has circled the drain of woke politics, tarnishing what once was a wonderful weekend of gaming. This year, they're getting canceled by the woke themselves because they supposedly canceled a tabletop RPG award, The Crit Awards, from being onsite because of their anti-Jewish stances. The truth, however, is even more ridiculous, like most woke outrages.
Well darn. Here I though we were going to see a self purge of DIE/ESG acolytes from GenCon making it more likely for me to want to attend. Right now, since it is full of culture war activists who are prone to violence (e.g. The Quartering attack) I don't feel safe in attending if I do not parrot the current thing back to wokies who seem to believe Silence REQUIRES Violence.
Once GenCon exits DIE/ESG pro woke agendas, and returns to just asking people be tolerant of different people sans activism or dogma demands, then I'd consider coming back.
This is extremely depressing. I guess now gamers know a little of how women felt when women only festivals were shut down by trans militancy.
If it has to die then it has to die. Hopefully something better and non woke can rise from the ashes.
Well darn. Here I though we were going to see a self purge of DIE/ESG acolytes from GenCon making it more likely for me to want to attend. Right now, since it is full of culture war activists who are prone to violence (e.g. The Quartering attack) I don't feel safe in attending if I do not parrot the current thing back to wokies who seem to believe Silence REQUIRES Violence.
Once GenCon exits DIE/ESG pro woke agendas, and returns to just asking people be tolerant of different people sans activism or dogma demands, then I'd consider coming back.