Reply To: D&D officially turning Forgotten Realms sights away from Euro inspired campaigns

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The reason you should care about the culture war is because although it might look it’s just something people in America are doing on the Internet it’s not.  It will have and is already having consequences outside of America.  Even ignoring the introduction and expansions of Hate Speech laws, it’s having an impact on areas like payment processing and finance.  Whether you agree with recent high profile bannings from Patreon that was really just the problem bubbling to the surface.  The culture was is not just in America because we have global companies who are used worldwide and those companies are bending to pressures whether willingly or unwillingly (although in the case of Mastercard I would suggest it’s willingly).  The culture war, for good or for ill, is having an effect on your life and while you might think it’s ok because you don’t hold the same views as the people being targeted, the fact that they can be targeted by services that are both essential (because we live in a world driven by credit) and virtual monopolies (with the only real alternative to Mastercard being Visa) then I think that is actually a massive cause for alarm; it may not be us today but that doesn’t mean it never will be.  As the left drifts further and further to the left, those of us currently in moderate positions will increasingly find ourselves branded as right wing.  And as the extremes of the right are gradually banned and censored, what is considered extreme will gradual contract closer to the centre to the point where what is currently moderate will become the extreme and be banned.  So while in the context of games and gaming the culture war might seem insignificant and it’s effects irrelevant (it’s only a game right? Don’t like it don’t buy it), it’s a much bigger problem than whether or not your favourite game or comic or film has suddenly become overly PC.