'Racist' and 'culturally offensive' images pulled from hugely popular trading card game
This month, the company behind “Magic: The Gathering” permanently banned that card and six others carrying labels like “Jihad” and “Pradesh Gypsies.” Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of toy giant Hasbro, acknowledged the images were “racist or culturally offensive.”announcing its action.With the country roiled by tensions and protests over African Americans’ deaths at the hands of police, the issues entangling Magic and its creators are unlikely to subside soon.
“Both Wizards and the community at large are guilty of making black people feel unwelcome in Magic,” wrote Lawrence Harmon, a black player who hosts a podcast about the game. “It’s time that changed.”An endorsement from the company, which also produces Dungeons & Dragons, can boost the livelihoods of players, artists and commentators. A lack of support can have the opposite effect.
“The events of the past weeks and the ongoing conversation about how we can better support people of color have caused us to examine ourselves, our actions, and our inactions,” it said. “We appreciate everyone helping us to recognize when we fall short. We should have been better, we can be better, and we will be better.”Wizards subsequently pledged to review every Magic card printed — a considerable undertaking given that 20,000 unique cards are in circulation.
“I’m a white man that grew up in America in the ’70s and ’80s,” Mark Rosewater explained. “I need to recognize that a lot of things I’ve internalized as normal and ‘just part of life’ have ugly aspects tied to them. I need to self-educate to understand these biases so that I can remove them.”The company did not provide an explanation of the thought process behind the banned cards.
. Pulling that card “was the right call,” he said, even though its characters, while looking “like KKK members,” had actually been inspired by the Spanish Inquisition.
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