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That's why I included the part about how they would have addressed the coworker's insensitivity... The job explicitly says they value those exact things and a candidate demonstrates they are suitable for this position practicing conflict resolution and inclusion through practical lived...

The Oxford English Dictionary has the oldest known use of the Middle English word raunǧer as "a forester, gamekeeper" as far back as 1327.

But it's not a stretch to see how that personal experience would be applicable in the workplace, or even be a motivation for someone entering in the field in the first place. For example, I know people who did more than anyone in HR to help employees and interns without having any official role...

I imagine the way someone's personal story of being discriminated against could enter the conversation would be in answer to basic interview questions like, "Tell me about a time you solved a problem."

It sounds like there's a lot of agreement here.

Playing as orcs might help that. One way I could see doing that is having a premise of playing as a group of FR orcs attempting to fully turn away from worshipping or being affected by Gruumsh and his pantheon to a better path (and not even necessarily a non-aggressive or non-antagonistic...

I think it's better to offer to climb the mountain with them, which I don't see as necessarily disagreeing with your point of view. The fact that you were willing to have the conversation at all and listen to this person's point of view and hear them out is the important part to me.

Tsochar! They got lost in the shift to 5E but I always liked them as singularly focused body snatchers.

I know that I'm not asking people to walk on eggshells because you might hurt someone's feelings. What I mean is that each of us (because I'm guilty of this too) should consider why someone would perceive our actions or words as hurtful to them and incorporate that knowledge into trying to...

I shared a video of several Black TTRPG creators saying they view orcs as rooted in racist concepts if that is of any use to you in this discussion. I don't think we should expect every single person who takes offense to a fantasy concept that draws on real world stereotypes people might...

In case this is relevant to my posts, since you mentioned Tolkien and I shared examples from him just now since dwarves in D&D are built primarily on his model, I'm presenting my opinion and not claiming its fact that dwarves are meant to be literally Jewish. I don't expect them to have literal...

One way to mitigate having fantasy races being limited to caricatured stereotypes of real people and cultures is to diversify people making the game behind the scenes to avoid causing harm to those very people. As to anti-Semitism, I'm not going to get too far into this but most obviously from...

I don't disagree that there are two world views at play. I do think to disagree in good faith we should acknowledge that we do not and cannot have the lived experience of another person, and that when people have a certain lived experience we do not and cannot have we should start by...

Eberron does have a decent justification for half-orcs and their dragonmarked house—consensual blending of human settlers and orcs in the Shadow Marches with half-orcs representing a unity between the two. I'm sure that's still problematic in how it presents orcs as being unable to have the...

I thought this video from D&D Beyond with a panel of Black Tabletop Creators (including Orion Black) was very good on this particular topic. The relevant timestamp for a brief mention of orcs and how these specific creators see orcs as rooted in racist concepts. The whole video is worth watching...