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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7369341" data-attributes="member: 57112">Not a moderator, but my guess would be that that's because &quot;virtue signalling&quot; and &quot;SJW&quot; are, by there very nature, ad hominem attacks, meant to shut down conversations by disparaging the others' motivations. What's more, those terms (at least in the context that they're often used these days on the internet) spawned from some very anti-inclusion dark corners of the internet, and Morrus has made it very clear on multiple occasions that ENWorld maintaining an aura of inclusivity is very, very, important to him and to the community as a whole.&quot;White privilege&quot; is a purely academic term about observable cultural and societal phenomena that is not (or at least should not be taken as) an attack on anybody. If you understand what it actually is (and more importantly, I guess, what it's not) then it's pretty hard to deny its existence, but there's a conversation to be had as to what extent it does and what its true impacts are, and there's very little academic consensus on that point. The point being, it's neither a personal attack nor a conversation ender.Frankly, I'm surprised people are getting bent out of shape about &quot;white privilege&quot; before &quot;cultural appropriation&quot;, which was both (a) more relevant to the thread being referred to here, and (b) more likely to actually be used as an attack on somebody else. But again, I think it's worthwhile to discuss whether a gaming product is an example of cultural appropriation, while on the other hand I would agree that accusing another poster of cultural appropriation would come much closer to (if not actually) crossing the line.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7369341, member: 57112"] Not a moderator, but my guess would be that that's because "virtue signalling" and "SJW" are, by there very nature, ad hominem attacks, meant to shut down conversations by disparaging the others' motivations. What's more, those terms (at least in the context that they're often used these days on the internet) spawned from some very anti-inclusion dark corners of the internet, and Morrus has made it very clear on multiple occasions that ENWorld maintaining an aura of inclusivity is very, very, important to him and to the community as a whole. "White privilege" is a purely academic term about observable cultural and societal phenomena that is not (or at least should not be taken as) an attack on anybody. If you understand what it actually is (and more importantly, I guess, what it's [I]not[/I]) then it's pretty hard to deny its existence, but there's a conversation to be had as to what extent it does and what its true impacts are, and there's very little academic consensus on that point. The point being, it's neither a personal attack nor a conversation ender. Frankly, I'm surprised people are getting bent out of shape about "white privilege" before "cultural appropriation", which was both (a) more relevant to the thread being referred to here, and (b) more likely to actually be used as an attack on somebody else. But again, I think it's worthwhile to discuss whether a gaming [I]product[/I] is an example of cultural appropriation, while on the other hand I would agree that accusing another poster of cultural appropriation would come much closer to (if not actually) crossing the line. [/QUOTE]

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