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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 6725817" data-attributes="member: 3887">I've read some of Chinn's blog posts and all I can say is his opinions don't reflect my experiences as a minority gamer/nerd media fan. From what I've seen, he does a lot of question-begging; accepting for a fact that certain representations/partial-representations/(mis)appropriations are harmful without demonstrating how or why or to whom, specifically. Also arguments of the form: racism exists, therefore this is racist. Or hypothesizing 'someone might be harmed by X'. I don't find that particularly insightful, or helpful.&nbsp; Then again, I'm probably not the right audience for his criticisms. If you put a hula-dancing orc or an elf in lederhosen in your D&amp;D campaign, I'd laugh. I wouldn't get mad because you stole part of my cultural heritage.&nbsp;&nbsp; (and in the interest of accuracy, my cultural heritage is best described as &quot;working-class northern New Jersey&quot;, despite me being Polynesian &amp; German, also Ukrainian and a little Japanese, possibly some other stuff, too, Hawaiian ancestry can get complicated)Perry gets a lot of flack for appearing in stuff like Geisha-drag, but I'm don't see how that's meaningfully different from, say, Guitar Wolf dressing kinda like the Ramones (if you don't know who Guitar Wolf is/was, Google them! Then go watch Wild Zero!!). Yes, fine, but how does that apply to settings like Kara-Tur, or Orlais in the Dragon Age games (the snotty, elitist pseudo-French country)?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 6725817, member: 3887"] I've read some of Chinn's blog posts and all I can say is his opinions don't reflect my experiences as a minority gamer/nerd media fan. From what I've seen, he does a lot of question-begging; accepting for a fact that certain representations/partial-representations/(mis)appropriations are harmful without demonstrating how or why or to whom, specifically. Also arguments of the form: racism exists, therefore this is racist. Or hypothesizing 'someone might be harmed by X'. I don't find that particularly insightful, or helpful. Then again, I'm probably not the right audience for his criticisms. If you put a hula-dancing orc or an elf in lederhosen in your D&D campaign, I'd laugh. I wouldn't get mad because you stole part of my cultural heritage. (and in the interest of accuracy, my cultural heritage is best described as "working-class northern New Jersey", despite me being Polynesian & German, also Ukrainian and a little Japanese, possibly some other stuff, too, Hawaiian ancestry can get complicated) Perry gets a lot of flack for appearing in stuff like Geisha-drag, but I'm don't see how that's meaningfully different from, say, Guitar Wolf dressing kinda like the Ramones (if you don't know who Guitar Wolf is/was, Google them! Then go watch [i]Wild Zero[/i]!!). Yes, fine, but how does that apply to settings like Kara-Tur, or Orlais in the Dragon Age games (the snotty, elitist pseudo-French country)? [/QUOTE]

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