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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8467607" data-attributes="member: 3457">Playing a caricature is just that, a caricature. Are some stereotypes old and boring and insensitive? For sure. Back you 100% but not everything needs to be a cause. Sometimes causes like this are far more ableist and presumptive than the thing you’re trying to educate people on. Define “stupid character”, now define “stupid person” and show me someone who fits how people play “stupid characters”. If I’m playing Pinky, from Pinky and the Brain, I’m playing a “stupid character” but how is that character “ableist”? If I’m playing my character as mentally handicapped as portrayed in insensitive portrayals of individuals with Down’s syndrome? Yep and I would be upset if a player did that who was playing it for laughs but if they were playing it to explore the world through that lens? No. Get outta here, that’s their experience to try to have and if they’re being sensitive and sincere in their attempt to explore this experience and the other players are as well that’s not any of your business. We are all people trying to have an experience and RPGs can help people grow into new experiences by being different people in unique and different worlds and that includes the full gamut of different beings, cultures and differences.What business does anyone have telling another table what they can and can not do ? This is the same argument against gay marriage or interracial marriages. What business of yours is it if it isn’t your table, your game? It has no bearing. If it’s your game and you’re not comfortable with it you can talk to the players there and say I don’t like this and come to an agreement to not approach those subjects at the table.personally if I came to a table of insensitive butts about these topics I would just walk away and not play with them but that’s their game and it may never be a thing outside of that table and may just be an experience they need to release steam. The only thing we should be saying that’s not 100% ok is KKK/Nazi crap and you aren’t welcome here if you’re into that. It’s one thing to play a game of space Nazis. It’s another to idolize one. I also include anyone who associates accents due to ESL as a lack of intelligence on that Nazi KKK list of this is not ok. I worked with a guy, thick middle eastern accent. Back in Iraq he was a doctor. People at our job thought he was stupid because he was hard to understand. I used to sit with him at lunch and one day he started talking to me about living in Iraq under Saddam and being a doctor and how he came to the US as a refugee after Saddam fell. He had been a prisoner of ISIS and freed by the marines and came to America and was taking English classes to help him with his accent so he could get into American medical school and get his medical license here. He’s now in his internship. People talked to him like he was stupid. One of the smartest people I know. I have other stories like this because I am a trainer. I work with ESL every day and teach them the job and have to help people overcome barriers and oftentimes with no English at all. I’ve had to teach lawyers and physicists how to do menial labor because they were refugees from African countries. One of my favorites is a former chief who lost his lands due to the Somalian civil unrest in the 90s, he calls me his Knight (I have a formal knighthood through Masonic/Gnostic connections) and we’ve taken computer certifications together. One of the great pleasures of my job is getting to know these people and teaching them how to express their intelligence and value in a different culture than their own so that they can get ahead at our job and in life. Never, ever call someone with an accent stupid. Ever. I will find you and you will regret it. Lol</blockquote>

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