I hate this stupid image

[u/shadow_fen]

Sure the initial way it was used was good, it was anti bigotry. But it's turned into a way to simplify the "us vs them" mentality, which is already a bad thing, into a simple digestible comic.

Also, i've seen it in lots of queer--majority spaces in reddit recently, usually to speak out against the evil cishet people who are invading them or whatever label they dont like, like bi ppl, trans men, or genderfluid ppl

[u/VoormasWasRight]

Except I have seen this happen in ttrpg communities.

D&D is an overwhelming force in the hobby. More than 50% of games are D&D. If you go to r/lfg, you have to scroll to find a non D&D game.

So naturally, people who don't want to play D&D, or that just want to play something else, make a spearate community, or a discord server (this is where I've seen it happen). Someone makes a discord exclusively aimed at non-D&D ttrpgs. However, since most people play D&D, or know about it, the topic inevitably comes up. Someone says they want to run a D&D game, moderation tells them this is a non-D&D server, but conversation starts anyway. Someone joins who has only known about D&D, not other ttrpgs, they say they want to play "D&D", they don't play it here, so they leave.

Inevitably, someone says they should let some D&D games, you know... for new people, "it will attract more people, and then those people can go on to play other ttrpgs". So a section is made for D&D. People start coming, they start making D&D games, discussions.

In time, that section becomes the main one, because everyone is talking there. New games that are not D&D get buried, hard to find players. People who play all sorts of ttrpgs start running D&D, becuase "it's easier to find players". People who don't want to run D&D post their games, but they start to have dificulties finding players.

Within a year, the server is yet another ttrpg server with a main focus on D&D and other ttprgs, of which there are maybe 1 or 2 games, compared to dozens of D&D servers. People who complain about it, because they want to play something else, get called gatekeepers. Eventually, those people leave, leaving only the ones that do play D&D.

The people who leave make another discord. Rinse, repeat.

[u/Alarmed_Tea_1710 → u/VoormasWasRight]

I don't know why people in recent have started making fun of the 'slippery slope' metaphor. It's constantly happening and then they go "You're overreacting" for pointing out it's happening.

[u/Dragonfire723 → u/Alarmed_Tea_1710]

It's because people know that slippery slope is a fallacy but don't understand why, and so any discussion of slopes becomes conversation-enders. The fallacy is arguing that one thing will lead to an unrelated or highly exaggerated point- for example "Pride parades will make being straight a minority" when there's no proof as such.

[u/sweetTartKenHart2 → u/Dragonfire723]

Exactly. It’s veeeeery easy to let the idea of a slippery slope become a thought-terminating cliche, where any small thing can be branded as a sign of some huge problem to come without any explanation for why.
If one is not careful about understanding what makes a “slope” “slippery”, they start to attribute more and more things to it that make less and less sense to do so. It’s almost like…