This is annoying, but not actually a problem, because if *you* order the pizza, you remain free to order pizza which doesn't have pineapple on it.
Unless, as is the case, those 'smug in their righteousness' are trying to make it illegal, or at least socially unacceptable, to make a pizza without pineapple.
Do you have a version of the metaphor which includes the distinction between people expressing an opinion, and people actually constraining someone's behavior?
The homophobic makers of wedding cakes have been compelled to accept and make cakes for gays.
(You say there were no black people in Poland at the time, as if that were a well-established historical fact. There are some historians who disagree, see note below.)
You do realize that when you're discussing a population percentage of less than 0.01% it is okay to say 'none'? As in, statistically speaking, there were no blacks in Poland during the late medieval and early renaissance.
Or, to quote your sources, "There were a
few hundred blacks spread across German, Scandinavia, and Russia...". No mention of Poland, but I accept there may have been a few in Poland.
This means, it's okay to make a game set in fantasy (or even
historic) Poland with no blacks. Further, The Witcher is specifically about Polish culture and folklore... so even if the percentage were to be a whopping whole 1%, it would still be okay to exclude them from game. Further more, the game is based on the books... so...they stayed true to the source.
One of Larry Correia's fans recently raised the question, on Correia's site, of how to harass Green Ronin at Origins; is anyone doing anything like that to CD Projekt? Is anyone treating them the way Team Milo treated Leslie Jones?
Yes. CDPR has been the victim of a campaign of hate from the CNTRL Left.
And from the gaming 'news' media (I know redundant, they mostly are part of the CNTRL Left). Just google "the witcher no blacks".
Wait, are you seriously accusing Samuel Delany, or Gene Roddenberry, or more recently John Scalzi and GRR Martin (major opponents of Sad/Rabid Puppies), or anyone at WotC or Paizo, of black supremacism?
Heavy sigh...
Wait, Scalzi? Hmmm. Maybe. I haven't had much dealings with his personal politics aside from Sad Puppies... He might be an
intersectional feminist.
Footnote: how white Medieval Europe was, and also Britain, across a range of terrain (Iberia to Poland) and centuries (13th != 15th).
There is plenty of racism in Poland. It's just white skinned folk versus white skinned folk. Because, that's the breakdown of race in Poland, 99.
999% white folk. Which is part of The Witcher series is about (the elves and dwarves stand in for other white races in The Witcher).
I think that's what I was obliquely referencing. It's roll play vs role play. If the only thing elven about your character is stat bonus and the ability to see in the dark, that's pretty poor role play, IMO.
Yes, let us round up all the badwrongfun roll-players and treat them appropriately.
In all honesty, I haven't been following it at all, and I have no opinion on that particular issue. I simply don't know anything about it.
So why mention it?
Oh wait, I see it's for a sloppy segue...
But, I am running a campaign using Sasquatch Games Primeval Thule setting.
Ah, yes. The most northern of the north, which should be the most Scandinavian of settings... the type of setting an aware person would expect to be overflowing with white people...
But, I just skimmed through my Primeval Thule Campaign Setting pdf. 273 pages long filled with lots of pretty darn good art.
Exactly one image that clearly shows a person of color.
Sigh.
But, in a setting where you are supposed to be filled with tribal cultures in a fantasy version of Greenland, you'd think you'd see a couple of people that weren't blond and blue eyed.
Oh okay, I get it.
You want more Inuits! I agree.
Damn them for hewing true to Howard, Lovecraft, and Smith's vision of Thule...
Imagine if someone made the game
When We Kings, set in mythic Wakanda and some 'woke' person came along and complained "But where are all the Hispanics!"
So, if you think that it's entirely unreasonable that groups are agitating for more inclusivity...
To them I say "Be the change you want to see". Make the game you want to play. Create the D&D, Rolemaster, Runescape, HERO, GURPS, etc, setting you want to play in. Get art for it you want to see. Publish it.*
If there is a market for it, it will do well and become the forward progress you desire.
But don't demand all [-]pizzas[/-] rpgs have to have [-]pineapple[/-] your PoC of choice [-]on[/-] in it.
* I mean if FATAL can become a published† game, I swear by ZOD
anything can.
† For various definitions of published.