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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8984966" data-attributes="member: 18">The new rules are actually WAY MORE racist than the half-X term.Half-X has been used in a racist way IRL because it is often used in a way such that it's only the non-white half (if there is one) which gets mentioned. But complicating matters, quite a lot of people who are biracial or mixed-race or whatever do like call themselves, say &quot;Half-Chinese, Half-Irish&quot;. That's how they see themselves (like I know a guy who calls himself Half-Japanese, Half-Welsh, and he doesn't like other descriptors and really doesn't like &quot;mixed race&quot; - which he says is like calling him &quot;coloured&quot; or &quot;multiracial&quot;). Whereas other people in a similar situation legitimately hate that &quot;Half&quot; terminology for themselves.And unfortunately a lot of VERY WHITE people have decided to take up arms for both sides of the equation. I do think there are somewhat more people - at least in the US, who are biracial or similar who dislike Half-X, so maybe it's fine for it to go away, but it's not simple.And what WotC have done with 1D&amp;D is SUPER-GROSS AND CREEPY, race-wise, because their approach is &quot;Yo, you can look like whatever you like, and average the lifespan or w/e, but you're only allowed to pick one race for traits/abilities, and you must pick all of them from that one race&quot;, so the message is grim-as-hell, racially, because it's like, &quot;No matter how you look, you're X on the inside!&quot;, which is a MUCH WORSE racist thing people have been doing for even longer in human history.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8984966, member: 18"] The new rules are actually WAY MORE racist than the half-X term. Half-X has been used in a racist way IRL because it is often used in a way such that it's only the non-white half (if there is one) which gets mentioned. But complicating matters, quite a lot of people who are biracial or mixed-race or whatever do like call themselves, say "Half-Chinese, Half-Irish". That's how they see themselves (like I know a guy who calls himself Half-Japanese, Half-Welsh, and he doesn't like other descriptors and[I] really[/I] doesn't like "mixed race" - which he says is like calling him "coloured" or "multiracial"). Whereas other people in a similar situation legitimately hate that "Half" terminology for themselves. And unfortunately a lot of VERY WHITE people have decided to take up arms for both sides of the equation. I do think there are somewhat more people - at least in the US, who are biracial or similar who dislike Half-X, so maybe it's fine for it to go away, but it's not simple. And what WotC have done with 1D&D is SUPER-GROSS AND CREEPY, race-wise, because their approach is "Yo, you can look like whatever you like, and average the lifespan or w/e, but you're only allowed to pick one race for traits/abilities, and you must pick all of them from that one race", so the message is grim-as-hell, racially, because it's like, "No matter how you look, you're X on the inside!", which is a MUCH WORSE racist thing people have been doing for even longer in human history. [/QUOTE]

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