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I think the humor of Community is sharp enough that Shirley and Pierce can be wrong and right at the same time. What you say about them is true, but their identification of this as a probable reaction to Chang is clearly correct, given the conversation about it we're having now. Whether we're...

Slavery was slavery, wherever it was practiced. The Greeks, Romans, and Germanics definitely did target certain nationalities for slavery, and their writers did invent pseudo-theological and pseudo-scientific justifications for it -- Aristotle and St. Augustine being particularly notable examples.

Mithras isn't safe. Remember, they're "Aryans" who put swastikas on all their stuff. But that's sort of my point: if we just abandon everything they decide to touch, we give them all kinds of power over us. EDIT: Regarding Sol Invictus, I might just be thinking of this naughty word, whose apparent...

I believe white supremacists are also trying to appropriate that one. "Badass" is sort of what they're going for, unfortunately for the rest of us.

Hah, true enough.

I think the current situation with a flat maximum is less plausible in universe, but better for the game. If your Strength max is lower as a gnome barbarian, that makes you less viable in the long run compared to goliaths. If you just start lower, you can always catch up.

Eh. I think not displaying them in Gatherer is a mistake likely to result in a Streisand Effect. They should have left the images up prefaced with their statement.

I think the root of the disagreement can be summarized as: "Why do that?"

Oh. That's just a Ravnica thing. It's the plane's gimmick even in the cards. (Although monocolor stuff does exist.)

Officially, they were all banned and their images taken down specifically because of the artwork.

I'm sorry, what do you mean by color pairs in D&D?

I mean, people were clamoring for some of them to be gone. Pradesh Gypsies is what it is, and Invoke Prejudice is absolutely horrible. It's just a few that were surprising.

How many times have you seen this sentiment lead anywhere good?

This is a complicated issue in the context of the MtG game. Context: very important. But I'm not sure how much we want to get into it on a D&D forum.

Pathologizing disagreement isn't very productive either.

If you don't take them seriously, why should they take you seriously?

There's a lot we could talk about in this, but my reaction was specifically to your claim that PCs fight orcs "just because they look or act differently". With so many strong emotions invested in the topics we're discussing, I think it's best if we keep a lid on the rhetorical hyperbole.

I don't think anyone is talking about putting one or the other down or making them the enemy just because they look or act differently.

Take that, drow atheists!

I believe that scene was added to the movie in an attempt to achieve precisely this effect of making the orcs more monster than human. Tolkien himself doesn't go into the details, partially because they are unavoidably squicky and he was very very anti-squick, and partially because he doesn't...