Big League Politics This lefty academic is really angry about a ‘Monopoly’ board game parody.
By Shane Trejo
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.
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.
Then, he was triggered by the imagery used on the cover…