Another critical hit on the critics of the game world from Scrivonaut and Norayla on Splash Damage:
An upcoming series of adventures for Dungeons & Dragons is written entirely by black and brown folks, and Polygon just thinks that’s the greatest thing ever. We discuss why it’s racist to care so much about something as superficial as skin color along with Ash Parrish defending the new Halo TV show, Ars Technica’s article in defense of video game cheaters, and accusations of oppression against yet another video game developer.
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I would love to see a group of black people writing these stories but the main characters are all white. That would really set these fucking racist heads on fire.
I doubt they'd miss a beat. They'd accuse the writer of internalized white supremacy or racism or whatever, and move on.
That's par for the course with woke doublethink. Woman writer that doesn't toe the line with nu-feminism? Internalized misogyny, they must be crushed. Black writer that doesn't go for the "white man bad, we wuz kangz" line? They're an Uncle Tom with internalized racism. Gay dude that doesn't make their characters all about "I'M GAY! I'M GAY! Did I mention I'M GAAAAAAAAAY!"? Internalized homophobia. It's the same pattern, on repeat, for any of their precious protected classes that don't meet their standards of performative wokeness, and par for the course to ostracize and eliminate the outliers that don't fit the narrative.