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Remove books from shelves. Not exactly like burning it, but... I definitely prefer a world with racism than a world with books removed from shelves for inclusivness.

No, I believe that the complains are sincere. But I think they are the result of overinterpretation.

Obvious since Orcs are the stereoypes for Barbarian Invaders. And they were created as Orcs and not Black, German, Asian, Mongols etc just to avoid reference with a single folk in RL. So the whole Orc matter seems to me very odd.o_O It is obviously a problem of overinterpretation. In Italy we...

1) YES 2) For the instance n°2 Sacrifice Alignment restrictions rules or Alignment at all. For the instance n°1 leave everything past produced as is. 3) To modify things in the past is not reasonable. To modify things from now on making more inclusive is ok. But avoid paranoia and keep firm that...

Hi guys, after many philosophical and ethical post I'm a little bit exaust, so it is better to go on with a very concrete question about gaming: yesterday one of my players express the desire to run a "Classic adventure, dragons and knight..." Starting from the fact that my players are coming...

I really appreciate you post because is reasoned and not a collection of universal statement. But in this case I must dissent. The trope of Civilzation vs the Uneducated Savage Brute is a trope, is not inspired from humanity's racist history, but from a very real set of things happened at the...

Yes. PROCESS ONE, Tolkien: Want a enemy that has all the worst trait of human nature and create orc. PROCESS TWO, Racist: Believe that PoC has all the worst trait of human nature. This inevitably end in Orc and Poc has all the worst trait of human nature. Two uncorrelated phenomena that...

Victim of overinterpretation. Yes. Goodbye sir.

For rethorical purposes, you are describing this whole depiction of Orcs as a gaffe made against PoC. But your metaphore is not completely adherent, for me. Description of Orc is something completely disjointed by PoC in the intention and purpose, and it is by a complaint made by PoC if this is...

Maybe. From the WoTC words: Throughout the 50-year history of D&D, some of the peoples in the game—orcs and drow being two of the prime examples—have been characterized as monstrous and evil, using descriptions that are painfully reminiscent of how real-world ethnic groups have been and...

In your example, stop to call the game in that way. In Orc question, sincerely, ignore the fact until the cost/benefit ratio suggest you to bend to irrational complaints based on nothing more than a simple assonance. Maybe WoTC has already done this cost/benefit evaluation, in this case is doing...

I don't like universal statement. I think that you have to evaluate what means to you to stop harming and how serious is the harm you produce. Starting from the fact that ORC is not PoC, and this is a fact, we can evaluate how many people, in a totally irrational way, say that are harmed by a...

Thanks, I'm still happy to improve my english ;)

You are putting words in my mouth. I do not say "words are not harmful" I say i'm not responsible if my innocent word cause you harm, because there was no harm intention in my word choosing, I'm not even speaking of you in my words.

As a fork can be harmful if you don't know how to use it, even a written word can be harmful if you don't know how to contextualize and interpret it. Remove the fork from universe?

I agree with you that some of people could feel unwelcome. But the attack is not in the written word, is in the mind of those people. And I'm no way responsible for that. Thus I have never to change anything. If those people are sensitive about those words, is because there are true bastards...

you say harm when the subject was overlap between description. Maybe incidental is not the correct word, as I say I'm not english native speaking. I use incidental as something that happens for pure coincidence, is not wanted and not intentional. People who gets harmed but this purely incidental...

Change the language sound sinister to me, forgive me but I'm Italian and in our history we've seen another guy who wanted to change our language and we weren't happy at all with him in charge. Better to change some words not to put the dust under the carpet, but to be more precise in our...

I'm saying that the reason why orcs are what they are is not to introduce surreptitiously PoC into narration. As I explained before in other less fortunate and polite thread, they are the summa of human (not only PoC) bestiality. And are conveniently not human, because who created them didn't...

Could I suggest you this book: Interpretation & Overinterpretation (Tanner Lectures in Human Values): Amazon.co.uk: Eco/Collini: 9780521425544: Books