Uncomfortable #TTRPG truth: DnD will always be a pro-colonization racist game. It doesn't matter if we change Race to Heritage. It doesn't matter if the iconic Paladin is Black. The games values are in racism and colonization. The designers lack the depth and will to change this.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @LammaticHama
how is any of this false? do you just disagree with the connotations? (I'm being That Guy right now I guess)
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Replying to @willdoingthings @LammaticHama
you absolutely are but thats ok :)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @LammaticHama
ok, cool. do you disagree that D&D is philosophically founded in racism and instead of colonization I'd call it military expansionism? or do you disagree that this should be called out, given its fantastical nature? or something else?
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Replying to @willdoingthings @LammaticHama
my take is that his tweet is fucking bananas
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pigeon meme is this racism?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @LammaticHama
not sure I follow but is the idea that Tolkien racism and real racism are basically causally separated and conceptually distinct and so calling Tolkien racism racism is equivocation?
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Replying to @willdoingthings @LammaticHama
where is the tolkein racism in dnd are orcs supposed to be Basque standins or something
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Replying to @eigenrobot @LammaticHama
no, despite popular misconception middle earth had black humans and thus orcs cannot possible be construed as their analogue anyway; so to answer your rhetorical question... i guess it's nowhere, really. well that settles that lol
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Yeah I mean tolkein had some super cringe racism but DnD doesn't have like idk Irish subraces with +2 con -2 int penalty to saves vs alcoholism :)
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I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at!
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