D&D's Problematic Lore That Still Needs Fixing
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It will never be enough.
Progressives: No culture is superior or inherently evil.
Also Progressives: Any culture that isn't western liberalism is inherently evil and inferior.
Whoa whoa whoa, let's unpack this.
Are you saying that other cultures have racism and sexism? Well, I'll have you know I've visited resorts, business meetings, and airports all over the world, and never once has one of the helpful African American poolboys in Kenya called me a racial slur. One of them even laughed with all the exaggerated swagger of an African American teen and called me a mafuta kijinga, which I think means they understand and appreciate our beautiful differences.
I'm a very qualified and intellectual judge of character and honestly I'm better than most people, though for some reason plebs like my ex and my landlord aren't educated enough to appreciate that fact. All they ever harp on about is " I told you not to text me when I'm with Jason," and "where is your rent Noah" Fucking fascist bootlickers, my landlord is an antivaxxer, Biden should put that bitch in a camp.
Anyway, I can say as an objective first hand source that minorities are honestly so much better than whites. Like 95 percent of minorities are vaxxed, and only like 5 percent of whites are, so duh, yeah. Basic science people. Maybe if you read a book once in your life you'd know this.
Any harmful aspects of marginalized culture are transitory and imposed by outside forces like white Imperialism. Once they see how brilliant we are, they will abandon their silly folksy ideas about life and join hands with me in white upper middle class liberalism.
Also, when that doesn't happen, the blame lays squarely on rethuglicans, Russians, and the Taliban, the only three groups on earth that constantly and consistently choose to be evil for absolutely no reason.
Checkmate christards.
*golf clap*
I love how they don't even try to mesh sexism, racism and slavery being always evil with the drow.
They just can't square 'always evil' being racist in the case of drow/orcs with the reality that the cultures, as written, are evil.
Sexism, homophobia and racism have almost no meaning anymore. It is also not the job of the game to decide that this are evil by themselves. If they are then let the game show not tell.
Is actually a lot more interesting to make appealing characters that are also racist. Elves and dwarves think poorly of others, this is interesting. It is racism? maybe but is not the all out evil the author thinks it is.
Racism as barely defined as it is today it is not evil, maybe slightly ignorant.
I still laugh at the wokists looking at DnD orcs and going: 'these are black.'
Excuse me? The rapist warmongers who are extreme barbarian stereotypes.... are coded black...? According to whom?
Says more about them and their views on black people than it does about orcs.