He did call for a colour. He asks us to trust in his towniehood that he chose them arbitrarily and randomly. I do not trust that. He painted himself as a target by calling those two colours, and anyone else calling for others will as well, as, if you don't believe they chose them randomly, they're either a town PR (nightkill target) or scum.
I think you're confusing his proposed plan with his hypothetical sorcerer answer. Where does his support two schools plan out potential PR targets or imply knowledge of other schools?
There may be some confusing the two, as he originally said "I'd do this if I was a sorcerer" and then he actually did it, so the line is blurred on whether he's actually one, scum, or (in his wording) "an apprentice doing it on behalf of a sorcerer so that he didn't have to claim". This last is what would imply knowledge of who has what school, so he changed it when he made the actual proposal to "these are chosen randomly and arbitrarily", which one can believe or not.
Regarding the painting of targets: whoever steps forward and calls for colours (as he did) calls attention to himself as being vested in those colours. They are either scum pretending to be town, a town PR (thus NK target), or claiming to be a vanilla townie (which people will doubt); in his original wording, he didn't propose himself as the person calling the colours, but instead left it open, which in my mind invited those above (scum/town PR) to out themselves, claiming to be "VT on behalf of so and so" or "VT with random chosen colours", and opening the door to huge amounts of WIFOM.
He then did step forward and claimed to have two "randomly chosen" colours for people to use, thus he is either scum trying to increase power to his school (
guaranteed 100% stronger scum if he is and people listen to him), an idiot greedy townie PR who doesn't understand multiplication (
nerfing the other town PR and painting himself as NK target), or a misguided vanilla townie too dumb and stubborn to abandon a plan that's proven to be bad for town.
So you think he's scum because he's making too much of a target of himself?
I think he's scum because a) the plan does not work for town, it is actively harmful (nerfs a PR) and empowers scum; b) he knows this; and yet c) he still supports and recommends it. He's inviting town to shoot itself in the foot. However, I'm not 100% sure, as he could still be one of the other options I list above (greedy/dumb town PR, or dumb/stubborn VT). I also agree with the ongoing conversation about
Criptfeind's scummitude, as I pointed out earlier as well. If I had more than one vote, they'd have one each; where it stands at the end of the day, remains to be seen.
Final (hopefully)
general clarification about Jim's plan: If you don't agree with it, don't fall into the trap of choosing the colour he
didn't bring up; that would tilt bias too much to that side too. The best bet for town is to ignore his choice altogether, and
choose randomly from black, white or red ("none" is probably not a good idea either). Scum's colour already has a positive bias, as scumbuddy support is guaranteed, so by spreading the others randomly (hopefully evenly) the bias will become evident Day 2. Scum can prevent this by not supporting their school, but that also works well for town, as it would be nerfing scum's PR power.