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It should be quite apparent to anyone with a functioning brain that the whole point of political correctness and woke-ness is not to actually make any positive contribution to society, it’s to exercise power. The whole worldview of the post-Marxists is predicated on one key tenet: power. There is no objective truth, no objective morality; there is only power.
Power that comes, not from the barrel of a gun, but from the 280 characters of a Tweet.
In the worldview of the ‘progressive’ left, there are only oppressors and the oppressed. The name of the ‘progressive’ game is to keep up the charade of being ‘oppressed’, because to be ‘oppressed’ is to be on the side of the angels. The easiest way to maintain the otherwise contradictory act of being ‘oppressed’ while scrabbling for as much power as Twitter can get you is to keep changing the rules of the power-play.
So the oppresserati demand ‘representation’. More ‘POC’, more ‘indigenous’, more trannies, more of whatever intersectional victim-group you can lay claim to.
And then, when creators cave in and give you more ‘representation’, change the rules of the game: Whinge about being ‘represented’.
Woke comes at you fast.
The inclusion of a ta moko in Cyberpunk 2077 has left a gamer and design consultant “shocked” by the hyped dystopian video game.
“As a gamer, it doesn’t ruin the entire game, but it… casts a shadow on it for me as an indigenous person,” said Morgana Watson, the creative director of MW Consultancy and 4Phase Games.
“I can’t in good conscience play a game when I know that they’ve taken something sacred from our people just because it looks cool.”
To which a sensible person might respond, “Then don’t play it and stop whining”. Oh, you poor, deluded fool: where’s the power to be gained from that?
If Cyberpunk 2077 is famous for anything other than being a buggy piece of crap which makes a beta release look like a benchmark in sophistication, it’s for its insane level of character customisation. Everything down to penis size is customisable in Cyberpunk 2077. And the accessories are seemingly endless.
Note that you can customize your character, including adding scars, piercings, style of teeth and even Maori tattoos.
That last one is problematic in that there is no way for the game to verify if you are the correct race to permit this.
Why, you could be white for all we know and choose a non-white tattoo!
I’ve noticed some Cyberpunk 2077 characters sporting Mexican gangster tattoos. They’d better be real Mexican gangsters!
I’m also led to wonder if Watson has similarly attacked, say, the creators of anime classic Neon Genesis Evangalion, who openly admit that they pilfered Christian symbolism without actually understanding any of it. Their only metric was “just because it looks cool”.
One way to solve this would be to not allow any customization at all!
Of course, then we’d be back to the original problem of there not being any POC characters. Maybe we should create a series of separate games, each designed for a specific race, gender and identity, which could only be purchased by verifiable members of those groups.
That should bring us all together.
But, if Watson wants to play Intersectional Bingo, then she’s going to have start counting victim beans with the creator of Cyberpunk.
In fact, Mike Pondsmith has already responded in unequivocal fashion to people whinging about “cultural appropriation” and racial sensitivity.
“Who the (bleep) do YOU think you are to tell ME whether or not MY creation was done right or not?”
They’re wokesters, that’s who. And they know just how the wokeness game works.
It consists of ceaseless grievance mongering, complaint, and demands and no one is safe from it. Its only outcome is endless fighting, pitting one faction against the other in a constant power struggle to be the most offended.
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