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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9383888" data-attributes="member: 58172">The problem with German academia of the past centuries, was they were hypnotized by the deeply racist concept of being a &quot;master race&quot;. They hypothesized there was an ancient &quot;Germanic people&quot;, which the &quot;superior&quot; groups of Northern Europe all descended from − with some groups having &quot;purer blood&quot; than others.Their hypothesis turns out to be complete fiction. In fact, the German ethnicity today emerges from a melting pot of many ethnicities − especially because of the Migration Period but even before then − the opposite of an &quot;ur&quot; master race.Meanwhile the flagrant cultural appropriation of other cultures in an attempt to reconstruct this supposed ancient Germanic people, did horrific harm to those other cultures.The Gygaxian version of &quot;Suel&quot; is his continuation of this &quot;master race&quot; racist hategroup assumption. The text of the World of Greyhawk is, in a few places, uncomfortably obsessed with racial purity and skin color. All of this racist premise needs to go away for any version of Greyhawk today. It is more a case of everyone was doing that then, not just Gygax. But it needs to stop.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9383888, member: 58172"] The problem with German academia of the past centuries, was they were hypnotized by the deeply racist concept of being a "master race". They hypothesized there was an ancient "Germanic people", which the "superior" groups of Northern Europe all descended from − with some groups having "purer blood" than others. Their hypothesis turns out to be complete fiction. In fact, the German ethnicity today emerges from a melting pot of many ethnicities − especially because of the Migration Period but even before then − the opposite of an "ur" master race. Meanwhile the flagrant cultural appropriation of other cultures in an attempt to reconstruct this supposed ancient Germanic people, did horrific harm to those other cultures. The Gygaxian version of "Suel" is his continuation of this "master race" racist hategroup assumption. The text of the World of Greyhawk is, in a few places, uncomfortably obsessed with racial purity and skin color. All of this racist premise needs to go away for any version of Greyhawk today. It is more a case of everyone was doing that then, not just Gygax. But it needs to stop. [/QUOTE]

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