WGDF

[Frission]

Prepare for the funny explosion I guess.

Spoiler

http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/197468-1/Manhole-firecracker-explosion.gif

After all there's people discussing about subjects that I thought were dead and buried.

 

[wAriot]

After all there's people discussing about subjects that I thought were dead and buried.

The race discussion has been alive and well for thousands of years, and I doubt it will die any time soon.

 

[Frission]

After all there's people discussing about subjects that I thought were dead and buried.

The race discussion has been alive and well for thousands of years, and I doubt it will die any time soon.

I mean Zimmerman. The "cooky" Florida neighborhood watch that murdered someone. It was a particularly ugly case.

 

[Atmos Duality]

The banhammer left welts on the board after the last WGDF; pretty sure folks still remember.
So far, the lightning hasn't struck twice.

Maybe that's "progress" in a twisted sort of way.

 

[Eamar]

Prepare your bodies, folks - the banhammer approaches!

Spoiler: Artist's impression

Not going to lie, I look forward to seeing the comments. From a safe distance.

 

[Lunar Templar]

*watches the site, users and mods alike, collective clench from the hint of hint of a return of WGDF*

Calmness, calmness every one, he hasn't said anything asinine ... yet ... >.>.

Side it might just be a empty threat, we all know how Grey likes to poke people for the sake of poking people

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

I don't really understand why the first WGDF comic was such a big deal, I thought it was pretty damn clever and topical, granted it went right for the jugular, but when you take on subjects like racism and white male entitlement that kinda comes with the territory. Plus it successfully pissed off 4Chan, and in that respect it was doing the goddess' work.
Plus, back when I was on Tumblr I saw stuff way more hardcore then that every single day so it was pretty par for the course for me.

 

[Grahav]

Posting this, a whole bunch of white guys commenting on the incident:

http://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/

 

[wAriot]

I mean Zimmerman. The "cooky" Florida neighborhood watch that murdered someone. It was a particularly ugly case.

Well, the whole Zimmerman case and posterior shitstorm was based on racism. If he was black (or Trayvon was white), the situation wouldn't have even come close to what it was, and maybe the killing wouldn't have even happened.

it successfully pissed off 4Chan, and in that respect it was doing the goddess' work.

Eh, most of 4chan is permanently pissed off so I wouldn't say it's that big of an achievement.

Edit:

Posting this, a whole bunch of white guys commenting on the incident:

http://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/

That doesn't sound exactly like a "bunch of white GUYS".

 

[Nouw]

4 pages in and we're still getting "I can't wait for all this controversy!" posts? Give it a rest guys. Honestly, I don't see the difference between low-content and posting "dis gun be gud." They add nothing to the discussion.

 

[Vegosiux]

Bloody hell.

Hoookay, that's not gonna end well. There's going to be spillovers to Off-Topic and Gaming. There's going to be people acting like complete and utter self-important twats with a Messiah complex. There's going to be division in the community. There's going to be just so much vitriol flying about it's not going to be funny.

I don't get it. Why are people looking forward to it? For a cheap laugh? Go to some Joke of the Day site. For that smug sense of self-satisfaction, patting yourself on the back and going "Hah, look at me, so much more awesome than those mud-slinging peasants"? Just go to 4chan for that.

Seriously, I hope you know what you're doing. Because I sure as hell think too many people have been scared off or ejected from the forum thanks to this kind of things as it is.

 

[Grahav]

Posting this, a whole bunch of white guys commenting on the incident:

http://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/

That doesn't sound exactly like a "bunch of white GUYS".

Oh, are they not?

Spoiler

Devious white men

What did you think?

 

[Agayek]

Martin tried to get away. Does that sound like a person who isn't feeling threatened?

To be entirely fair, "trying to get away" is an equally valid response to both a) feeling threatened, and b) planning to do something untoward to someone else.

I'm not trying to make a statement one way or the other, I don't know what Martin was up to and I doubt anyone ever will for sure, but the fact that he tried to run away doesn't really tell us anything about his motives.

 

[Cerebrawl]

Well Zimmerman was the neighbourhood watch coordinator, so he wasn't simply self-appointed. This neighbourhood watch was administered by the local police department.

You are correct. I see now that he was appointed by other members. Lots of misdirection came out on the reporting of the story at the time.

You're also treading well into the realm of unsubstantiated speculation. All we know is that Zimmerman approached Martin, was assaulted by Martin, and while on his back and being sat on and beaten by Martin, shot Martin.

And we'll certainly never know what Martin felt.

We know that Martin started trying to run away. Zimmerman stated this on the 911 call. Zimmerman even eventually lost sight of him. Perhaps Martin was hiding to get away from him. That's the point the dispatcher told him not to follow Martin any further and Zimmerman ended the call. That's the point beyond which we don't know more about.

Martin tried to get away. Does that sound like a person who isn't feeling threatened?

Or who's up to no good and feeling guilty. Which is surely what Zimmerman seemed to take from that reaction. A lot of this could probably have been avoided if he'd acted like he knew he belonged there, and not like he'd been caught where he shouldn't be or doing something he shouldn't be doing. A simple "hey man I live here" instead of running off, could've de-escalated the situation right quick.

Like I said, we're just speculating at this point. But from what we know, I'm seeing both parties doing stupid shit, and then one of them trying to beat the other to death and getting shot for his troubles, and I'm seeing that shot as being justified in that situation.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Bloody hell.

Hoookay, that's not gonna end well. There's going to be spillovers to Off-Topic and Gaming. There's going to be people acting like complete and utter self-important twats with a Messiah complex. There's going to be division in the community. There's going to be just so much vitriol flying about it's not going to be funny.

I don't get it. Why are people looking forward to it? For a cheap laugh? Go to some Joke of the Day site. For that smug sense of self-satisfaction, patting yourself on the back and going "Hah, look at me, so much more awesome than those mud-slinging peasants"? Just go to 4chan for that.

Seriously, I hope you know what you're doing. Because I sure as hell think too many people have been scared off or ejected from the forum thanks to this kind of things as it is.

Cause the last one was one of the biggest threads, hitting at 40 pages and a number of bans and warnings given that haven't even been counted (Due to being so many, but I'm working on it~). People are waiting for lightning to strike twice.

OT: Guess it's time for a good ol forum cleansing! =D I wonder how this is gonna go, after having just checked out the original thread myself. The comic has my interest more than the results though. I liked the first WGDF.

 

[Zealous]

I see that this thread will be composed exclusively of people waiting for people to be offended by the subject matter.

But there's no reason to be offended by this image out of context.

Wait till Tuesday when they post something actually inflammatory to see if someone takes the bait.

Well, given the nature of the previous comic and its effect, I'd say we have a context. At least until the next one is made, the context is the previous strip. If they leverage the expectation created by this image to get people arguing and then turn around and put out something far less inflammatory, it will be a little bit brilliant. If they put out nothing at all and are just using this single image to spark debate, that itself would be interesting.

Well I guess my thinking was that all the people that understood the context, that is to say, all those who knew that this was from the previous WGDF and would have sounded off on the previous comic in a way that would net them an easy ban would have already done it there and so they wouldn't be around to comment on this comic.

This comic serves to hype up the people that found the previous strip funny instead of inflammatory and the next comic will be the one to rope in the new inflamees instead of old ones from the previous strip.

 

[RA92]

And very well could look like Obama's son if he had one.

You can deduce so much about somebody with so little.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

I've got no idea what's going on or what this comic is about, but clearly something is going to happen.

A repeat of this, probably:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.828270-WHITE-GUY-DEFENSE-FORCE-GO

Check out the size of that thread.
And try to count the number of bans in there. There are simply too many to count.

There is exactly... *Ahem*

6 bans, 43 warnings, and 5 of those warnings resulted in suspensions in the original WGDF thread! This is what happens when I have nothing to do on a Friday night. You're all very welcome~

Think it'll be that bad once again?