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Did Professor M.A.R. Barker write an anti-Semitic book under a pen name?

Started by Tubesock Army, March 17, 2022, 08:50:03 AM

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hedgehobbit

Quote from: RPGPundit on March 21, 2022, 06:17:06 AMIt in no way "undermines my position" to condemn real Nazis. It does undermine theirs. And apparently yours, for some reason...

Watching Pundit condemn "real Nazis" is hilarious. His lack of self awareness is staggering.

tenbones

Quote from: Tubesock Army on March 21, 2022, 12:13:35 PM

Someone's head being "up their ass" is a common phrase, and not in any way linked to sexuality. THE PROJECTION IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!

But it's the totality of your claims, all of it reeks of a disdain of homosexualness that is rivalled only by your hatred of Asians. Your online handle, all of it. Denigrating me for my height. Whitewashing me in your own GIF.

There are a lot of unspoken problems here.

Tubesock Army

Quote from: tenbones on March 21, 2022, 12:16:05 PM
Quote from: Tubesock Army on March 21, 2022, 12:13:35 PM

Someone's head being "up their ass" is a common phrase, and not in any way linked to sexuality. THE PROJECTION IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!

But it's the totality of your claims, all of it reeks of a disdain of homosexualness that is rivalled only by your hatred of Asians. Your online handle, all of it. Denigrating me for my height. Whitewashing me in your own GIF.

There are a lot of unspoken problems here.


tenbones

Quote from: hedgehobbit on March 21, 2022, 12:14:13 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit on March 21, 2022, 06:17:06 AMIt in no way "undermines my position" to condemn real Nazis. It does undermine theirs. And apparently yours, for some reason...

Watching Pundit condemn real Nazis is hilarious. His lack of self awareness is staggering.

Yeah, all the actual real Nazis are fucked. I hold the same position against members of the Golden Horde. Fuck those guys.

tenbones

Quote from: Tubesock Army on March 21, 2022, 12:17:12 PM
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How many times can you white-wash me? It's becoming unfunny. Unless you're projecting again - a white man reaching desperately for a box of tiny phallic symbols...

Wait a minute, are you implying Asians have small caucs? Dude... how can you not say you're a racist?

in your defense - they're small white phallic symbols. So maybe this is self-loathing?

tenbones

I'm just messing with you Tubesock.

I'm just here to laugh at you.


I can laugh with and at repressed homosexual homophobe racists. We can all get along!

Tubesock Army


tenbones

Quote from: Tubesock Army on March 21, 2022, 12:22:29 PM

Yeah... "Joke's on them..."

"Them" meaning non-white homosexuals.

There's the quote for you. See, the first step in recovery is admitting your own homophobic racist views. Now we need to address that repression.

tenbones

Hey look! We're still playing The Game - only it's my game now.

so trivial and easy.

I hope people are taking notes.

Tubesock Army

Quote from: tenbones on March 21, 2022, 12:25:01 PM
Quote from: Tubesock Army on March 21, 2022, 12:22:29 PM

Yeah... "Joke's on them..."

"Them" meaning non-white homosexuals.

There's the quote for you. See, the first step in recovery is admitting your own homophobic racist views. Now we need to address that repression.

Quote from: tenbones on March 21, 2022, 12:26:02 PM
Hey look! We're still playing The Game - only it's my game now.

so trivial and easy.

I hope people are taking notes.


tenbones

White self-loathing. That is a problem. We're making progress.

Keep it coming.

Dig deeper brother! DEEPER.

pawsplay

Quote from: crkrueger on March 21, 2022, 09:39:17 AM
We know he sat on the Editorial Advisory Committee of that Journal, but we don't know how active he was.

I know several professors who sit on various boards and committees and don't do a thing, ever.  It looks good for the Journal to have more letters attached to the people on "Advisory" Committees and also looks good for the professor's CV when they write a book.

Unfortunately, "Anti-Semitic" has no actual value as a descriptor, these days, it's meaningless.

Quick question.

What the fuck?

tenbones

Because you can call anyone Anti-Semitic over nearly anything - including nothing, as this thread shows. It's there to trot out a litany of terms that end in Nazi/Racist/Holocaust denier etc. whatever is in vogue for the purpose of shutting down a discussion/removing people from position of power/undermining institutions based on guilt for perceived sins, mostly imaginary.

or... The Game(tm)


Let me know if my English is bad, I'm just an Asian.

pawsplay

Ok, but in this case it means sitting in an an advisory position on a journal of Holocaust deniers. Like, we can argue about whether lots of other things are anti-Semitic, but I think that should be an easy one.

And I guess we're just going to ignore Spinachcat defending ironic Nazism, ignoring the fact that Barker's book was printed by actual neo-Nazis who profit from its sales. That's fine and not at all concerning.

Barker's publisher

The organization

Omega

Quote from: RPGPundit on March 20, 2022, 01:55:01 PM
THEY DID DO SOMETHING WRONG. They distorted history while protecting a Nazi so that they could keep on making money!

Except we do not know that is what happened. All we know is that nothing was said of this. And the only reason anyone has any clue is when someone dug through Barkers stuff and found a manuscript.

Now here is where we need to ask the questions instead of playing Woke Mob.

How long ago was the manuscript found?
Did anyone think it was anything other than a sci-fi novel in similar vein to The High Tower? And a few others where Germany never fell or some other historical "What if someone else won". Because without that publisher attached to the book its just one more of these. If the manuscript does not have anything about the publisher on it then they might have never made the connection.

All that assumes that Barker kept everyone in the dark about any of his other dealings. Monard, Kask, Arneson just to name a few apparently never knew as none of them have ever mentioned even suspecting. And they worked closely with Barker or gamed with him extensively.

So till we know more the foundation could be victims of Barkers deception as well.
Or not.

I am saying we need to do what the woke cult does not. Dig more. Learn more. Before blindly believing just one story and attacking someone.
Personally I am already trying to get ahold of a few people I know who might shed some light on this.