@XaolynXaolyn Sure. Accepting that racism informs X doesn't mean burning X, it means taking responsibility for how you interact with that.
@XaolynXaolyn Given centrality of intelligence arguments to scientific racism, positing a "race" with objectively lower INT has politics.
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@XaolynXaolyn The in-world explanation isn't very relevant. The question is why we wound up explaining *this* choice with in-world shtick. -
@XaolynXaolyn Because we could just as easily have had a design choice of an unmodified stat and a social stigma about troll INT, frex. -
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@XaolynXaolyn SR having development caps complicates that, unfortunately. -
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@XaolynXaolyn So sure, SR encodes racism. It barely holds a candle to D&D that way; it took decades for D&D to even contemplate orc PCs. - 14 more replies
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