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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 7227469" data-attributes="member: 6688858">Both D&D and RL have rent-seekers on top who promote only the sorts of diversity that don't threaten (and in fact help to distract us from) the economic injustices that benefit them.If you think the race-class restrictions in the 1e PHB were draconian try reading the rules for publishing your own D&D content now. As a result we're all playing our genderfluid dual hand-crossbow-wielding half-Goliath Sorcerer/Paladins in extremely staid official APs that are basically expansions of 1e modules moved into the Forgotten Realms. So diverse.IRL it's a big deal whether the software engineers at Google are 40 or 50% female but no one cares about the hundreds of thousands of people who make a living driving vehicles and are about to be made redundant. We would rather argue about whether a new sports arena has third gender bathrooms than whether the team owner should be able to force taxpayers to pay for his business's infrastructure by threatening to move their cultural institution elsewhere. The most profitable companies in the world are very homogeneous sexually and ethnically and make billions by moving money around in complicated ways rather than by building anything of substantive value but few people know who they are and how they work. It's nice to get to use whichever bathroom has the shorter queue but I'll be impressed by modern social liberalism when I can choose to identify as an accredited investor.</blockquote>

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