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<\/a><\/p>\nIl y a eu ces derniers jours dans le microcosme ludique quelques discussions \u00e0 propos de Cards Against Humanity, l\u2019un des succ\u00e8s \u00e9ditoriaux les plus notables et les plus inattendus de ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Ce jeu a \u00e9t\u00e9 critiqu\u00e9, parfois agressivement, d\u2019abord sur l\u2019un de mes sites ludiques pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9s, Shut up and sit down<\/a>, et ensuite sur Facebook par l\u2019un de mes auteurs de jeux pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9s, qui est aussi un excellent ami, Eric Lang. Je pense qu\u2019ils se trompent au sujet de ce jeu, de sa signification et de son impact. Ils se trompent d\u2019une mani\u00e8re qui fait un peu penser \u00e0 ces intellectuels am\u00e9ricains assurant aujourd\u2019hui que Charlie Hebdo \u00e9tait raciste et agressif, alors que c\u2019est sans doute le plus profond\u00e9ment pacifiste et antiraciste des magazines fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n Mais retournons \u00e0 Cards Against Humanity. Ce n\u2019est sans doute pas le meilleur jeu du monde, ni le plus original, puisque ce n\u2019est jamais qu\u2019une variante de Apples to Apples. C\u2019est vulgaire et agressif, mais d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment, et avec humour. Je pense m\u00eame qu\u2019un tel jeu ne pourrait pas avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 con\u00e7u, et ne peut sans doute pas \u00eatre jou\u00e9 correctement, par des gens capables de prendre au pied de la lettre, au premier degr\u00e9, l\u2019une des blagues sexistes, racistes ou simplement stupides g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9es par les cartes. J\u2019ai jou\u00e9 une douzaine de parties de Cards Against Humanity, j\u2019ai achet\u00e9 toutes les extensions, je me suis parfois amus\u00e9 simplement en feuilletant les cartes, et je ne me suis jamais senti le moins du monde mal \u00e0 l\u2019aise. D\u2019abord, ce n\u2019est qu\u2019un jeu (quelque chose qu\u2019il faudrait souvent rappeler pour bien des jeux, notamment les jeux de guerre). Ensuite, pour tous les joueurs avec qui j\u2019ai jou\u00e9 \u00e0 Cards Against Humanity (parmi lesquels quelques des noirs, des homosexuels, des juifs et des femmes), il \u00e9tait clair que le jeu ne se moquait en rien des noirs, des homosexuels, des juifs ou des femmes (ou d\u2019autres), mais se moquait des st\u00e9r\u00e9otypes. Je pense qu\u2019il est socialement important que l\u2019humour puisse viser tous les ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes sociaux, y compris les moins sympathiques. Refuser cela, ce n\u2019est pas prot\u00e9ger les victimes de sexisme ou de racisme, c\u2019est refuser de voir nos probl\u00e8mes et de se moquer d\u2019eux.<\/p>\n L\u2019humour est la politesse du d\u00e9sespoir, disait Chris Marker. Je pense que les auteurs de Cards Against Humanity sont lucides, et pas mal d\u00e9sabus\u00e9s, face au racisme et \u00e0 toutes les sortes d\u2019exclusion dans nos soci\u00e9t\u00e9s occidentales. J\u2019ai lu dans l\u2019une des critiques de ce jeu que Cards Against Humanity\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9tait un jeu embl\u00e9matique de la \u00ab\u00a0White Male Culture\u00a0\u00bb – si c\u2019est le cas, ce n\u2019est pas parce qu\u2019il se moque des noirs ou des femmes, c\u2019est parce qu\u2019il se moque de la \u00ab\u00a0White Male Culture\u00a0\u00bb. Cards against humanity est, \u00a0en fait, un jeu sur la conscience politique.<\/p>\n Nous avons en France un jeu tr\u00e8s similaire, Taggle. Taggle est aussi vulgaire que Cards Against Humanity, mais beaucoup moins provocateur. Pourtant, alors que je n\u2019ai aucun \u00e9tat d\u2019\u00e2me \u00e0 jouer \u00e0 Cards Against Humanity, il m\u2019est arriv\u00e9 de me sentir mal \u00e0 l\u2019aise avec Taggle. La raison en est que si le jeu est truff\u00e9 de blagues sexistes sur les hommes et les femmes, il \u00e9vite plut\u00f4t tout ce qui touche \u00e0 la politique, au racisme ou \u00e0 la religion, sugg\u00e9rant soit que les probl\u00e8mes sont diff\u00e9rents, soit qu\u2019auteur et \u00e9diteur n\u2019\u00e9taient pas tr\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019aise sur ces th\u00e8mes, soit plus probablement qu\u2019ils avaient un peu peur d\u2019en parler.<\/p>\n On peut rire de tout, mais pas avec n\u2019importe qui, disait Pierre Desproges. Cette boutade s\u2019applique parfaitement, je pense, \u00e0 Cards Against Humanity. Il y a quelques personnes avec qui je ne voudrais pas y jouer \u2013 mais le probl\u00e8me, ce sont les personnes, pas le jeu.<\/p>\n Donc, si vous n\u2019aimez pas Cards Against Humanity, n\u2019y jouez pas, mais ne dites pas que ce jeu est sexiste ou raciste, car il est tout le contraire.<\/p>\n Au fait, les auteurs de Cards Against Humanity ont \u00e9galement con\u00e7u un autre jeu de cartes, Clusterfuck, que je consid\u00e8re comme l\u2019un des meilleurs jeux \u00e0 r\u00f4les cach\u00e9s. Vous pouvez t\u00e9l\u00e9charger les cartes ici<\/a>. Je pense que ce jeu m\u00e9riterait une \u00e9dition imprim\u00e9e, avec un plus grand nombre de cartes. Si l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Cards Against Humanity passe sur mon blog, j\u2019esp\u00e8re que cela leur donnera des id\u00e9es.<\/p>\n A game of cards Against Humanity last week, at my Ludopathic Gathering<\/p><\/div>\n There has been these last days in the gaming microcosm a few discussions about Cards Against Humanity, one of the most striking and unexpected recent card game hits. This game has been aggressively criticized, first on one of my favorite boardgame website, Shut up and sit down<\/a>, and then on facebook by one of my favorite game designers, and very good friend, Eric Lang. I think they are wrong about this game and, most of all, about its social effect and meaning. They are wrong in a way not completely dissimilar with the US intellectuals who now claim that Charlie Hebdo was racist and agressive, when it was probably the most deeply antiracist and pacifist French paper.<\/em><\/p>\n But let\u2019s go back to Cards Against Humanity. It might not be the best game around, nor the most original \u2013 after all, it\u2019s just a variation on Apples to Apples. It\u2019s offensive, it\u2019s crass, it\u2019s vulgar but all this is deliberate and obviously to be taken with a good pinch of salt. I even think that such a game could not have been designed, and probably could not really be played, by people susceptible to take at face value any one of the sexist, racist or just plain stupid jokes on the cards. I\u2019ve played a dozen games of Cards against Humanity, I\u2019ve bought all expansions, I\u2019ve had fun just browsing through the cards, and I never felt uneasy in the slightest way. It was obvious for me first that this was just a game (something that ought to be reminded more often about many games, especially war games), and it was obvious for me and for all the people I played with (among which blacks, gays, jews and women, and even the occasional jewish homosexual woman) that the game is not mocking blacks, gays, Jews or women \u2013 to name a few \u2013 but the stereotypes about them. I think it\u2019s socially important that humor could target everything, including the worse aspects of our society. Refusing to do this is not defending the victims of sexism or racism, it is preventing us to see (and laugh at) our social problems.<\/em><\/p>\n Humour is the courtesy of despair, said Chris Marker. I think the designers of Cards Against Humanity must be very lucid and disillusioned by racism and exclusion of all kinds in our western societies. I\u2019ve read somewhere, and this was intended as a criticism, that Cards Against Humanity was epithemizing \u201cwhite male culture\u201d \u2013 it might be true, but if it\u2019s the case, it\u2019s not because it\u2019s about white males mocking blacks or women, it\u2019s because it\u2019s about white males mocking themselves. Cards against Humanity is a game about political consciousness.<\/strong> We happen to have in France a game very similar with Cards Against Humanity, Taggle. It\u2019s as crass and gross as CAH, but far less provocative. While I have no problems playing Cards Against Humanity, I feel a bit uneasy playing Taggle. The reason why is that while the game is full of sexist jokes about men and women, it carefully avoids making fun of politics, race and religion \u2013 and this is the problem, because it suggests either that the designer and\/or publisher were not completely at ease with these issues or that they were afraid it would hurt the sales.<\/em><\/p>\n A French humorist, Pierre Desproges, once said that \u201cone can laugh at everything, but not with everyone\u201d. I think this perfectly applies to Cards Against Humanity. There are some people I would not play this game with, but the issue is with the people, not the game.<\/em><\/p>\n So, if you don\u2019t like Cards Against Humanity, don\u2019t play it \u2013 but don\u2019t say it is sexist or racist, because it definitely isn\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n By the way, the designers of Cards Against Humanity have designed another great card game, Clusterfuck, which can be downloaded here<\/a>. I think it\u2019s one of the very best hidden roles games around, and it would certainly deserve a printed edition with many more cards. Let\u2019s hope they get the hint if they read this blogpost.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il y a eu ces derniers jours dans le microcosme ludique quelques discussions \u00e0 propos de Cards Against Humanity, l\u2019un des succ\u00e8s \u00e9ditoriaux les plus notables et les plus inattendus de ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Ce jeu a \u00e9t\u00e9 critiqu\u00e9, parfois … Continue reading
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