Anti-Socialist Parody of ‘Monopoly’ Board Game Enrages Leftist History Professor
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A parody of “Monopoly” that pokes fun at the failed economic policies of socialism has triggered a university academic who took to Twitter to demonstrate his lack of self-awareness and humor.
Nick Kapur, who works as an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University–Camden, bought the game, Monopoly Socialism just to criticize it on social media.
I bought a copy of Hasbro’s mean-spirited and woefully ill-informed “MONOPOLY: SOCIALISM” board game so you don’t have to – a thread 1/ pic.twitter.com/YhZWDjkAnj
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
First, he was triggered by the game’s tag line.
From the tagline “Winning is for capitalists” we can see right away that this game is not going to be friendly to whatever it deems “socialism” to be.
Because as we all know “socialists” never play sports or participate in any sort of competitive activity, like board games. 2/
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
Then, he was triggered by the imagery used on the cover.
Interestingly, the design of the game features the red socialist rose… do ordinary people who presumably hate “socialism” really know what this symbol even is? 3/ pic.twitter.com/pWU3Ho83JO
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
He was confused by the implication made by the game’s player icons, which imply that socialism holds back technological progress.
The player tokens include a typewriter, an old-timey phone, a pocket watch, a phonograph, and a CRT television set, presumably because “socialism” is so incredibly outdated? 4/ pic.twitter.com/8R9HoiGO5H
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
Kapur was offended by the thought that schools and hospitals run by government could possibly be criticized.
Spaces on the board include a snarkily named hospital and school, because apparently schools are supposed to produce losers and hospitals are only supposed to help some of the people. 5/ pic.twitter.com/gcg3bUKrU1
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
He was angered by the game’s digs at veganism and health food fads.
There are also tons of references to health food and veganism, despite the lack of any clear connection to socialism, apparently because what they share in common is that they are odious things that are fun to mock. 6/ pic.twitter.com/tKzkpQWZ36
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
Kapur felt that someone should have told the game’s creators that environmentalism is a sacred cow.
It’s also crucial to mock environmentalism because, haha, as we all know environmentalism is stupid and hilarious. 7/ pic.twitter.com/dhXb29ANQR
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
He went on to criticize the game on technical terms, apparently not being able to realize that the game is a parody meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
It goes without saying that this game is entirely uninterested in trying to understand what socialism actually is and how it might function. 8/
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
full story at https://bigleaguepolitics.com/triggered-anti-socialist-parody-of-monopoly-board-game-enrages-leftist-history-professor/