It's not that if you disagree with me, you're racist. It's that your entire narrative and life goal is built around reducing my narrative and my position and my existence and I'm simply calling that shit out. This goes beyond disagreement. As if conversation were everything.

A while back, I wrote up a playbook that institutional power takes in an effort to escalate others into silence. It went like this:

1. I see no problem.
2. It's your problem.
3. You're the problem.

Ex:

1. I just want to play games.
2. No YOU'RE racist.
3. *Troll Pile-On*

Conversations are actually the convergence of years worth of layers of pre-existing discourses, shaped by everyone who came before us, and speaks alongside us. Everything we say is in conflict with everything else.

That's what I mean when I speak of disagreement.

If you disagree that games are always already political, you are refusing to allow for the possibility of race relations to already be present in your game. I understand the stakes here. You understand the stakes here. Even if you cannot place a finger on it. It's about race.

So by refusing to acknowledge the always already political existence within games, you are refusing to acknowledge the fact that games are always already infused with the possibility of readings that point towards real life race relations. And that, by definition, is racist.