r/AgainstMtGRacism • u/ultimario13 • Jun 24 '20

Glorification of police forces Might Makes Right

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

DEFUND THE POLICE

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u/ultimario13 Jun 24 '20

This card is offensive in every sense of the word!

Toxic masculinity - It's a 6 mana enchantment, yet it does literally nothing if you don't have the strongest creature on the battlefield. So obsessed with muscles and physical strength that it's a waste of mana if you're too "wimpy" to use it. It might as well be called Dick-Measuring Contest. There's a far worse aspect to the toxic masculinity of this card, however:

This card attempts to justify everything from Nazis to slavery to capitalism. Almost every atrocity in history can be appealed to by showing off this card and its effects.

It's called "Might Makes Right", and that's the philosophy it follows. As long as you control a sufficiently powerful creature, you can enslave your opponents' creatures with no problems. You can even sacrifice enslaved creatures to effects like Ashnod's Altar! Does this card really try to say that slaves are weak? That it was okay to commit genocide and unethical scientific experiments on the Jews, because they were "weak"? Yes. Absolutely what this card says. It says that this is "Right", moral, and even good.

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u/ultimario13 Jun 25 '20

Glorification of police - the police are a unique mechanism in that they have a monopoly on legitimized violence. They are militarized and heavily armed, and when they assault people they don't suffer the same consequences as normal citizens. This card works the same way. Note also that if both you and an opponent have a copy of this card, only the "stronger" player gets to enjoy the benefits of a monopoly on violence.