Recent content by cowpie

WOTC is banning selected language from the books, which is a partial ban. By expunging parts of the book, they can censor ideas and change the original meaning of the book. Plus, it's a stealth ban--you gradually chip pieces of the material away, so it's less noticeable, and then you chip...

Why not combine them? How about the way the d12 was used in Pathfinder was more racist than the way it was used in Holmes Basic.

I think people like to dunk on Orcs of Thar because: 1) It's fun 2) It's a way to demonstrate that you're against racism ('cause Orcs of Thar is obviously pretty cringey). 3) It's a way to signal membership in your tribe (I hate racism...me too!) and get social kudos. 4) It's a quick way to try...

Means is an interesting person, but he's only human, and definitely had his flaws and foibles. He was also a career politician and actor, so it's ok to take some of what he said with a grain of salt.

Please...no more. I can't un-see this :sick:

Yes, but were any Kobolds offended that they were portrayed as Sons of Italy? That's what I'd like to know! :rolleyes:

I'm going to update the Sherman Alexie (only cause I read this book): “I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are *ssholes and the people...

Agreed -- editing the terms can be used to insert new messaging, change the meaning of works, or rewrite history--and in the worst case, attempt to control what people can say or think. That's not about educating people anymore--it's about control.

Yeah, they should have contacted some Native American tribal groups, apologized, and asked them to vote on a new name for the team. Of course, then you'd have to pick and choose which groups to contact, so that could end up backfiring, but yeah--that was the most embarrassing name in football.

NAACP has remained remarkably consistent. Maybe it's because it's a storied name, and everybody recognizes it.

Whoops, sorry! I also believe that it's important to look objectively at things from history (including stuff that's no longer considered socially acceptable), because that's how you learn about history. I'm opposed to destroying things that I find offensive -- I find that too often people...

Yes, but this turns into a sticky wicket, since "Native American" is an umbrella term representing hundreds of tribes, with many different languages and cultures, whose subjugation happened in different ways, by different European groups, at different time periods. Add to the mix that they...

Some of these terms fall in and out of fashion. The most visible radical indigenous protest movement of the 70s was "AIM" -- the American Indian Movement, and that was founded by indigenous people, so they picked the name. In 10 years, the preferred name will probably evolve into something new.

To add to your post about how people wouldn't have made much of a ruckus about this back then, I think there's some more context to it. This product came out at a time when people didn't protest this stuff publicly much. A lot of US Boomers had turned 30, had a mortgage and kids, and stopped...

I pretty much skipped these for the same reason -- a lot of the subject matter seemed racist, the bad ideas in some of the products (like the fart jokes) and the general trend of TSR pumping out subpar products meant that I didn't want to buy any of this stuff.