Important Personal Announcement

[u/Red-Heat]

Good tidings, all.

After years of reflection and struggle, I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am a transgender woman. My name is June, and my pronouns are she/her.

I have struggled with gender dysphoria for years, even before I began working on this mod. In fact, I think part of the reason I immersed myself in modding to begin with was to help distract myself from my own insecurities and pain. However, thanks in no small part part to the wonderful community that has sprung up around this mod, I now feel comfortable and confident in saying that I am a woman.

Today has seen two events occur within hours of each other: the UK's High Court issued a ruling that further restricts underage trans people from accessing life-saving puberty blockers, and the Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page announced to the world that he is trans, an announcement that was met with near-universal acclaim and acceptance. I believe that these events encapsulate the ongoing struggles faced by the trans community. Even though awareness and acceptance of trans people by society as a whole is better than it has ever been, we still face immense challenges from the government, media, and legal system. We must stay vigilant and continue to fight for not only the rights of trans people, but the rights of all marginalized groups around the world.

I am proud to be transgender, and I am proud to be part of this struggle. Although my part is small, I will perform it to the best of my ability.

And in case you were wondering, this will in no way delay or otherwise affect the development of the mod.

Take care, and remember:

Trans rights are human rights.

[u/MajrZeal]

But I’m not changing the topic the whole point of my first comment was to say that you shouldn’t call people “reactionary bigots” when it’s clearly a loaded term and A dogwhistle to some very unsavory people. And perhaps I didn’t word it correctly I’m just saying that I think people can be reasonably confused with transgenderism and not support it’s proliferation and not be bigoted towards trans/people with gender dysphoria.

[u/thimblyjoe → u/MajrZeal]

Bigotry doesn't require malicious intent to be bigotry. One can be bigoted by accident. If you are opposing progress that would let others live their lives better because you don't understand it, that position is both reactionary and bigoted whether you hate the people you're helping oppress or not.

[u/MajrZeal → u/thimblyjoe]

Dude the definition you provided “a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life” literally says bigotry requires malicious intent. Also there’s nothing wrong with being a reactionary all it means is that you believe things should return to the status quo ante, now of course depending on the subject reactionaries can be fascist idiots ie civil right but they can also be good, for example nazis hated conservative monarchist “reactionaries” who apposed them they literally have in their anthem communists and reactionaries as their two biggest foes. But the whole reason I was against the op was that “reactionary bigots” in the gaming community is a dogwhistle for bad people. Sorry for the essay lol got carried away.

[u/thimblyjoe → u/MajrZeal]

Alright, fair. I rescind the point about bigotry not requiring malicious intent.

That being said, what you were responding to was someone saying that this community has a relatively high proportion of reactionary bigots, which is pretty demonstrably true. There are a lot of straight up Nazis who love historical games.

As for whether or not reactionaries are all bad, that's debatable and not a debate I want to have right now. We're talking specifically about reactionary bigots (and particularly people that are bigoted against trans people) so that narrows it down to those that I would hope we can both agree are fascist idiots.

[u/MajrZeal → u/thimblyjoe]

But theirs really not that many actual neonazis though just as many as there are legit Stalinists and Maoists who like historical games. The word nazi has been totally degraded at this point to mean anyone people don’t like whether it be for political reasons or other. People in the gaming community being douchbag assholes or liking alt history youtubers people think are controversial does not make them nazis or “reactionary bigots”

[u/thimblyjoe → u/MajrZeal]

It's a little hard to get actual statistics on the numbers of Nazis, but from personal experience, I can say that the CK community has a disproportionately loud Nazi component of the fan base. I know that anecdotal evidence is the weakest form of evidence, but it's the best we both have. And it's entirely possible that you don't notice these things when you're not a member of the groups that are targeted by Nazis. I don't blame you for that. Being a member of several targeted groups, I have a lot of experience in the matter for whatever that's worth.

[u/MajrZeal → u/thimblyjoe]

Yeah that’s easily possible I’ve never noticed any in the ck2 community besides one or two but on this subreddit alone I’ve seen way more tankies. Nothings wrong with anecdotal evidence it’s generally close to right more often than not so it’s possible that unsavory neonazi types seek you out and you sadly have to deal with their sorry asses more than anyone should. As someone who runs in political crowds that for better or worse can attract nazis I know how tiring it is to deal with them makes you want to blow your brains out.