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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8664299" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>I dare to say the "cultural appropiation" some times is a "necessary evil" to fight "islamophobia".</p><p></p><p>Let's imagine a Muslim D&D player creating a new campaign using as source of inspiration the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridda_Wars" target="_blank">ridda wars, the fight betwee the first calipha and other self-proclaimed prophets</a>. Then other could complain because this plot about fighintg against false prophets is a subtitely islamophobic (really a simple misunderstanding, but potentially troublemaker). Other could say some antagonist faction is an allegory about Maoist dictatorship what is destroying mosques in China (and even he may totally right because the author don't like Chinese goverment).</p><p></p><p>Slavery can be possible (in the real life) even where it is forbidden, for example a landowner faking debt bills the workers can't pay for generations. (“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” ― John Adams 1826). In a fantasy world, (llegal) slavery is possible by supernatural monsters, for example vampires kidnapping people for "blood farms".</p><p></p><p>When I was a little child, there was an episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey" target="_blank">Gagney & Lacey (a teleseries from 80's about two police women in New York)</a> where one of them infiltrated in a workshop where illegal immigrants worked as slaves. An episode of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Up_(TV_series)" target="_blank">80's short-live serie "Cover Up"</a> was about traffick of women, I could understand what the bad guys were doing (very, very wrong), and I wasn't psychologically traumatized at all. Fiction can tell about certain crimens, but remembering the respect for the victims from the real life. The risk is those crimes being showed as a "Overton window" to influence us for a growing tolerance, as if we should allow anything we can't eradicate totally.</p><p></p><p>I am uncle of a 11y niece. I can tolerate a fiction work where the evil guy has got a harem, for example Ming the Merciless in the 80's cartoon of Flash Gordon, but parents may think twice about to allow watching plots where the main male character has got a "harem" (and not only a group of female allies).</p><p></p><p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNAn1y4Hth0_q4JBTB9WgT_llVYIKR5438kUk3lfVJf8KqToc6p5gmySRdIF7-tTPqkVM&usqp=CAU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tOmEeiAU2sE/TrDULfwInzI/AAAAAAAAE00/rF2OpZO85wc/s400/FlashToon_04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 250px" /></p><p><img src="https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/flash-gordon-16-avi_snapshot_06-56_-2010-07-28_22-34-30-jpg.28314212/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 249px" /></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlaveMarket[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8664299, member: 6802378"] I dare to say the "cultural appropiation" some times is a "necessary evil" to fight "islamophobia". Let's imagine a Muslim D&D player creating a new campaign using as source of inspiration the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridda_Wars']ridda wars, the fight betwee the first calipha and other self-proclaimed prophets[/URL]. Then other could complain because this plot about fighintg against false prophets is a subtitely islamophobic (really a simple misunderstanding, but potentially troublemaker). Other could say some antagonist faction is an allegory about Maoist dictatorship what is destroying mosques in China (and even he may totally right because the author don't like Chinese goverment). Slavery can be possible (in the real life) even where it is forbidden, for example a landowner faking debt bills the workers can't pay for generations. (“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” ― John Adams 1826). In a fantasy world, (llegal) slavery is possible by supernatural monsters, for example vampires kidnapping people for "blood farms". When I was a little child, there was an episode of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey']Gagney & Lacey (a teleseries from 80's about two police women in New York)[/URL] where one of them infiltrated in a workshop where illegal immigrants worked as slaves. An episode of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Up_(TV_series)']80's short-live serie "Cover Up"[/URL] was about traffick of women, I could understand what the bad guys were doing (very, very wrong), and I wasn't psychologically traumatized at all. Fiction can tell about certain crimens, but remembering the respect for the victims from the real life. The risk is those crimes being showed as a "Overton window" to influence us for a growing tolerance, as if we should allow anything we can't eradicate totally. I am uncle of a 11y niece. I can tolerate a fiction work where the evil guy has got a harem, for example Ming the Merciless in the 80's cartoon of Flash Gordon, but parents may think twice about to allow watching plots where the main male character has got a "harem" (and not only a group of female allies). [IMG]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNAn1y4Hth0_q4JBTB9WgT_llVYIKR5438kUk3lfVJf8KqToc6p5gmySRdIF7-tTPqkVM&usqp=CAU[/IMG] [IMG width="250px"]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tOmEeiAU2sE/TrDULfwInzI/AAAAAAAAE00/rF2OpZO85wc/s400/FlashToon_04.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="249px"]https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/flash-gordon-16-avi_snapshot_06-56_-2010-07-28_22-34-30-jpg.28314212/[/IMG] [URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlaveMarket[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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