Greetings Fellow Comstoks! ([info]fengi) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 11:28:00
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The Race Card
A black guy and a white guy sit at a table playing Society: The Gathering.

White Guy: Aaand I add a gifted education card to the stack of my second offspring card, giving me three extra turns and 20 points.

Black Guy: I counter with a property tax inequity card.

White Guy: What.

Black Guy: This spell points out the entrenched economic disparities between racially divided areas are perpetuated when education is financed primarily by the property tax base and asks if testing became more nationalized by No Child Left Behind why isn't funding?

White Guy: Wh-why that's a strange, strongly worded spell.

Black Guy: Well, when I flip it over it also casts the point that over reliance on property taxes is unfair to most people who aren't in the highest income brackets and leaves all schools more vulnerable during market down turns than more balanced taxation schemes.

White Guy: It's still a spell against me, you've interrupted my turn.

Black Guy: This is true.

White Guy: This is totally wrong - you've played a race card.

Black Guy: Well...I think it could be called a money card...

White Guy: How am I supposed to win against that?

Black Guy: Have you even looked at the stats on my card? It's a one point defense. The way the rules are written you lose a turn and 5 points at most, unless you play one of your acknowledgement cards. Then you lose 2 points and just have to pause and nod.

White Guy: [Placing hand over two inch stack of cards] It's outrageous that I am forced to sacrifice any of my precious ack deck. These rules are totally unfair.

Black Guy: For who exactly?

White Guy: I don't get any race cards.

Black Guy: Dude, when you've made the deck I think they're all race cards.

White Guy: I'm not following you.

Black Guy: Whatever. Are we going to play or what?

White Guy: [mumbles] Can't believe...crossed the line...[sighs] Okay. [Pulls out another deck from underneath the table.] I didn't want to do this but I cast these observation spell cards for [slaps down one] irresponsible absent fathers [slaps down another] rap music [slaps down another] and Jeremiah Wright [slaps down another].

Black Guy: You've got another one of those? If you're going to do a triple I only need an incredulity card of one or higher.

White Guy: Not if I managed to score one of those Bill Cosby Has A Point combiner cards - which I did in my latest expansion pack purchase.

Black Guy: Well I bought the Obama extra pack, with amplified incredulity.

White Guy: As did I.

Black Guy: Did you really?

White Guy: Not telling.

Black Guy: Anyway, you've got to withdraw at least one.

White Guy: No I think the Wright card is invulner...okay fine [removes it]. It has a low value in education battles anyway. You still have to play an acknowledgment.

Black Guy: I've only got a few left but [sighs] there you go. Happy?

White Guy: So anyway, I now only get two turns but an extra 10 points, which means my offspring are going to Northwestern...

Black Guy: Y'know, perhaps we could stop playing.

White Guy: Nah, where's the fun in that?

This piece is the closest I can get to participating in this and it's not very close.

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[info]liveavatar
2008-04-23 04:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah.

And this works with very minor modifications for several other pairings, too.

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[info]fengi
2008-04-23 05:23 pm UTC (link)
White Woman: Hey, I'm getting tired of playing.

White Guy: Hmmm...I've got an idea, why don't you play this guy?

Black Guy: Um, okay.

White Guy: Watch it, that bitch is tough - kidding, I kid because I love honey.

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[info]liveavatar
2008-04-24 03:30 am UTC (link)
Wait...that almost reminds me of something I've been reading about recently. I'm sure it'll come to me in a moment.

P.S. - Observant as always, I just noticed your original icon for this post. :)

Edited at 2008-04-24 03:34 am UTC

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[info]pope_guilty
2008-04-23 04:47 pm UTC (link)
That's pretty excellent.

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[info]pope_guilty
2008-04-23 04:49 pm UTC (link)
I especially liked

The way the rules are written you lose a turn and 5 points at most, unless you play one of your acknowledgement cards. Then you lose 2 points and just have to pause and nod.

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[info]bghsmith
2008-04-23 05:09 pm UTC (link)
Ah yes, the children of the well-off deserve better education then the poor. I'm not sure why, but I guess that's because I'm not well off. (i.e. dumb)

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[info]pretzelcoatl
2008-04-23 05:18 pm UTC (link)
I tap this post for mana.

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[info]davidkevin
2008-04-23 05:24 pm UTC (link)

Unfortunately, nobody will ever play the card game version -- it's educational.

But like, yeah. Truth with a capital-T.

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[info]lenny_wick
2008-04-23 05:26 pm UTC (link)
A big T for terrific!

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[info]mcpreacher
2008-04-23 05:35 pm UTC (link)
i am loathe to call upon family guy references but:

Cleveland: Thanks for including my “civil rights” board game in the game-night rotation, guys.


Lois: Awwww, we’re always happy to play “Two Decades of Dignity.” It makes us all feel a little less guilty.


(Peter rolls game dice and has to draw a card)



Peter: (reading) For whistling at a white woman go directly to jail. Aw, man! Does anybody ever win at this game?!



Cleveland: You don’t win…you just do a little better each time.

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[info]fengi
2008-04-23 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Dang. I hope this comes of as drinking from the same pond of ideas and not biting the cake someone else baked.

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[info]mcpreacher
2008-04-23 06:53 pm UTC (link)
you misunderstand, i think anyone with an awareness of civil rights would realize the pond of ideas is pretty damn obvious, i just thought i'd share because that shit's hilarious.

i feel like i need to memorize this shit because i always find myself in an argument with a guy who is like 'affirmative action is bullshit i could have got into a university if i was black' and they don't get it when i ask if their limp is from the enormous white man's burden. it's also a pain in the ass to bring to the forefront any and all supporting evidence only to be shot down by the dreaded 'well you say that but THIS FRIEND OF MINE...' and you can kiss your case goodbye if that happens to ALSO be their black friend

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[info]fengi
2008-04-24 11:59 am UTC (link)
Oh, no I didn't take as an accusation - more of a compliment - but at times one has to realizs humor is a muse who sleeps around and you can't be a prude about that.

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[info]mcpreacher
2008-04-24 12:01 pm UTC (link)
i disagree because MY BLACK FRIEND

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[info]lapsedmodernist
2008-04-23 06:08 pm UTC (link)
awesome.

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[info]hematopoetic
2008-04-23 06:10 pm UTC (link)
This is brilliant!

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[info]cacahuate
2008-04-23 09:00 pm UTC (link)
Awesome.

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[info]cofax7
2008-04-23 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Wow, that's awesome.

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[info]ojouchan
2008-04-23 10:24 pm UTC (link)
This is on all accounts awesome. Especially:

This spell points out the entrenched economic disparities between racially divided areas are perpetuated when education is financed primarily by the property tax base and asks if testing became more nationalized by No Child Left Behind why isn't funding?

*sigh* Childhood.

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[info]rum_holiday
2008-04-24 12:53 am UTC (link)
This is...great. Ha.

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[info]rubynye
2008-04-24 03:56 am UTC (link)
Oh criminy, this mess distracted me from IPSTW Day aka Shakespeare's Birthday!

At any rate, I followed your link from [info]brown_betty's post. I don't know if I'm laughing or crying, but I'm surely applauding.

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